Musicality of Poetry Series X: World Music Festival 2001
Guild Complex

Guild Complex is thrilled to be a part of this year's installment of the World Music Festival. This year we are fortunate to welcome some of Jamaica's foremost musicians and dub poets making a rare appearance in the Chicago area.


9/25/2001 - 9/25/2001

7:00pm


Guild Complex is thrilled to be a part of this year's installment of the World Music Festival. This year we are fortunate to welcome some of Jamaica's foremost musicians and dub poets making a rare appearance in the Chicago area. This year's festival is so full of goodness that we had to extend it to two nights. Tonight we present in their first Chicago appearance, Papiumba Big Band (Mbala [Michael Bailey], percussion, drums and Papi [Hugh Pape], saxophone, flute) and Chicago's Livity Nyahbinght Choir.
Mbala is an established Jamaican musician , poet, graphic artist, mask maker, and Vice President of the Poetry Society of Jamaica. He has toured the Caribbean and Europe as a Percussionist for Sistren, a women's theater collective based in Kingston. In addition to the drums and percussion Mbala plays mbiras, bamboo flutes, xylophones, and other acoustic insturments. Papi is a professional saxophonist and flutist. Jazz music was, and remains, the primary influence on his original compositions. Also crucial to Papi's artistic development was his musical collaboration with dub poets studying at the Jamaica School of Drama. In the 1980's he toured Europe and the Caribbean with dub pioneers Oku Onura and Jean "Binta" Breeze. Papi's saxophone and flute playing can be heard on Onuora's groundbreaking recording Pressure Drop (1983)
Livity Nyahbinghi Chior seeks to define contemporary, urban Rastafarian music-rooted in the churchical Nyahbinghi tradition of drumming and chanting and reaching to the heightsof heartical reggae. Livity represents a unity that transcends race, gender, ethnicity, national origin and other types of "isms and schisms". Nyabinghi music is the original Rastafarian spiritual music.

Performers
Papiumba Big Band, Livity Nyahbinghi Chior

Tags: Literary, Music, Rest Of The World, 2001