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Saturday, Oct 16, 2010 | 8 PM
Hugh Masekela
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Hugh Masekela, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, and Vocals

Program

  • Program is approximately 1 hour, 50 minutes, including one intermission
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Over the course of a 40-year career—during which he has collaborated with artists from Paul Simon to The Byrds to Ladysmith Black Mambazo—this extraordinary trumpeter-composer has mixed the music of his South African roots with the pop-jazz of the 1960s.
"Grazing in the Grass"
Hugh Masekela, Trumpet / John Selolwane, Guitar / Arthur Tshabalela, Keyboards / Khaya Mahlangu. Flute / Dumisani Hlela, Drums / O Moiloa, Keyboards / Lucas Senyatso, Bass
Columbia
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 | 8 PM
Angelique Kidjo
THE SOUND OF THE DRUM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Angelique Kidjo
    with
  • Dianne Reeves
  • Omara Portuondo
  • Romero Lubambo
  • Youssou N'Dour

Program

The brilliant Afro-pop star Angelique Kidjo tells the journey of the drum through rhythms, songs, and dances from Africa to the Caribbean and on to America, joined by a few of contemporary music’s most important icons.
“Congoleo”
Angelique Kidjo
Sony Music Entertainment
Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 | 8 PM
Gal Costa
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Gal Costa

Program

The Tropicalismo movement, which combines sensuous Brazilian bossa nova with heavy rock, has been a mainstay of Latin music since the late 1960s, and no one sings this music like Gal Costa.
“Desafinado” (Jobim)
Gal Costa
Verve Records
Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 | 8 PM
James Taylor: Roots
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Performers

  • Alison Kraus
  • Amy Grant
  • Danny Kortchmar
  • James Taylor
  • Jerry Douglas
  • Vince Gill
  • with special guests including:
    Robert Cray

Program

  • James Taylor
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This concert, in which James Taylor is joined by special guests, spotlights the variety of influences that have shaped Taylor’s music, from bluegrass and blues to church hymns.
“Sweet Baby James”
James Taylor
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