Morocco and Colombia Unite in this celebration of traditional music
8pm - Doors
8:30pm-9:15pm - BullA en el Barrio
9:30pm-10:30pm - Innov Gnawa
Innov Gnawa is a young musical collective dedicated to exploring Morocco’s venerable gnawa music tradition in the heart of New York City. Formed in the summer of 2014 by Moroccan expat Samir LanGus, the group draws on the considerable talents and expertise of Hassan Ben Jaafer, a Maâlem, or master gnawa musician, originally from Fes, Morocco. Under the guidance of Ben Jaafer, Innov has delved deep into the roots and rituals of gnawa music, and made a big splash in NYC, playing some of the city’s most prestigious rooms including Lincoln Center, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Bowl and the storied backroom of Brooklyn’s Barbès.
For the uninitiated, gnawa music is the ritual trance music of Morocco’s black communities, originally descended from slaves and soldiers once brought to Morocco from Northern Mali and Mauritania. Often called “The Moroccan Blues”, gnawa music has a raw, hypnotic power that’s fascinated outsiders as diverse as writer/composer Paul Bowles, jazz giant Randy Weston and rock god Jimi Hendrix. The music is utterly singular, played on an array of unique instruments — from the lute-like sintir that the Maâlem uses to call the tune, to the metal qarqaba (castinets) with which the kouyos (chorus) keep time and pound out clattering, hypnotic rhythms.
Hailed by Brooklyn Magazine as one of the "5 Bands You Need to Know in Brooklyn's Arabic Music Scene", Innov Gnawa make great use of this traditional repertoire, and add their own, contemporary spin with additional African and Latin percussion. Taken as a whole, this exciting new outfit works hard to fuse a centuries old North African tradition with the pulse and attitude of New York City now.
Bulla en Barrio is a New York-based collective established to create a space for the practice and learning of Bullerengue, a traditional form of music and dance from the Colombian Caribbean region. The collective’s goals are to teach communities the traditional cultural and artistic practice of Bullerengue, to harvest communal spaces for people to meet and exchange culturally, and to encourage individuals to pursue and strengthen their own artistic and social talents and skills. Bulla En El Barrio has performed at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Corona Plaza, in collaboration with Queens Museum, Queens, NY; Terraza 7 Bar, Queens, NY; and as resident artists at Barbes Bar, Brooklyn, NY. Bulla En El Barrio has also been invited to perform for the Little Sisters, New York, NY. Bulla En El Barrio’s lead singer, Carolina Oliveros, was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. In 2006, she studied Music in Atlantico University, specializing in opera singing and choir. Since then, Oliveros has recorded with musicians and producers to create jingles and vocal backgrounds, and been lead singer of the group Agua e Yuyo. Oliveros has won traditional music contests of the Colombian Caribbean region such as Gaita Festival in Ovejas, Sucre; National Bullerengue Festival in Puerto Escondido, Córdoba; and the Maria La Baja Bullerengue Festival in Bolívar. Currently Oliveros lives in New York City where she initiated Bulla En El Barrio and her band La Banda De La Nación.
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