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World Fusion Mini-Fest with Matthew Montfort, Four Shillings Short, and Walter Strauss & Mamadou Sidibe at Don Quixote's 2/28/10

Posted Sat, 02/06/2010 - 2:44pm by ancientfuture

World Fusion Mini-Fest Featuring

Matthew Montfort (Scalloped Fretboard Guitar and Glissentar Pioneer)

Four Shillings Short (Celtic/Folk/World Music Duo)

Walter Strauss & Mamadou Sidibe (Finger-Style Guitar and West African Hunter's Harp)

Matthew Montfort and Mariah Parker on Youtube

Sunday, February 28, 2 pm - 6 pm

Don Quixote's International Music Hall

6275 Highway 9

Felton, CA 95018

Tix: $10 adults. 16 and under free.

Info: 831-603-2294

email: tmm@cruzio.com

web: www.donquixotesmusic.com

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1/17/2010: San Francisco Soiree for Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar by Matthew Montfort

Posted Tue, 01/12/2010 - 12:14am by ancientfuture

Performance at Peña Pachamama by Matthew Montfort

San Francisco Soiree for Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar by Matthew Montfort

Sunday, January 17, 2010, 7:30 pm

Peña Pachamama

1630 Powell near Union

San Francisco CA 94133

Tix: $12. Info: 415-646-0018

www.penapachamama.com

This soiree for Seven Serenades for Scalloped Fretboard Guitar celebrates the debut solo recording by Ancient Future leader Matthew Montfort. Montfort will perform on both the scalloped fretboard guitar, a special modified instrument able to produce ornaments more characteristic of the sitar, and on a Godin Glissentar, an 11 string fretless guitar based on the oud. While previously known more for his compositions for the trendsetting world music group Ancient Future, Seven Serenades features his intimate improvisational guitar work.



Seven Serenades CD Cover

Matthew Montfort

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Ancient Future Times: Borders Download of the Week, Gigs & Classes, & Moonbath from A.F.A.R.

Posted Tue, 01/12/2010 - 12:03am by ancientfuture

January 2010 Issue:

Welcome to the Ancient Future Times

Email newsletter of the World Fusion Music Ensemble Ancient Future

Twitter: Matthew Montfort (MatthewMontfort) • Ancient Future Band (Ancient_Future) • Ancient-Future.Com Records (WorldFusion)

Facebook: Matthew Montfort Fan Page • Ancient Future Fan Page

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January 2010: Márta Sebestyén, Sofía Rei Koutsovitis & more

Posted Fri, 01/08/2010 - 11:24pm by World Village
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Hungarian artist MARTA SEBESTYEN debuts "I CAN SEE THE GATES OF HEAVEN..." on World Village in January. Sebestyén is widely renowned for her authentic interpretation of traditional Hungarian folk music, as well as her Oscar®-winning contribution to the soundtrack of “The English Patient". A GRAMMY winning collaborator with artists such as Deep Forest, Muszikás and Peter Gabriel, Sebestyén's "I Can See The Gates Of Heaven..." is a collection of folk and religious songs from the Carpathians, featuring Hungarian artists Balazs Dongo Sokolay on bagpipes, flutes, saxophone and tarogato, and Matyas Bolya on lute and zither.
http://worldvillagemusic.com/anglais/album.php?album_id=151

This month, World Village is also pleased to present "SUBE AZUL", the latest from “one of the most versatile and in-demand singers on the New York music scene” (All About Jazz), SOFIA REI KOUTSOVITIS. A native of Buenos Aires, Koutsovitis sings in Spanish, Portuguese and English, and her music is rich with traditional South American rhythms such as chacarera, zamba and vidala from Argentina, Afro-peruvian festejo and lando, and Afro-Uruguayan candombe, all combined with jazz harmonies and improvisations.
http://worldvillagemusic.com/anglais/album.php?album_id=163

Lastly, World Village welcomes mento favorites GILZENE & THE BLUE LIGHT MENTO BAND with "SWEET SWEET JAMAICA". Founded by Lanford Gilzene in 1986, The Blue Light Mento Band has performed at major festivals across Jamaica, carrying on the tradition of mento: the first recorded indigenous Jamaican music, born during the colonial period. "Sweet Sweet Jamaica" consists of folk favorites and Gilzene's originals, as well as a mento adaptation of Toots and the Maytals' 'Sweet and Dandy', with Toots playing the harmonica.

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Ancient Future Times: Melodies from AFAR, Beats from AFAR, Help from AFAR, even from your iPhone...

Posted Sun, 12/20/2009 - 9:28am by ancientfuture

New Year's 2009-2010 Issue:

Welcome to the Ancient Future Times

Email newsletter of the World Fusion Music Ensemble Ancient Future

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Sergio Mendoza y La Orkestra

Posted Thu, 12/03/2009 - 5:57pm by DJ Seduce

Thursday December 17th 2009 - Treat yourself for the holidays to an amazing evening of pure Latin bliss! Introducing:

Sergio Mendoza y La Orkestra w/ special guest Salvador Duran & DJ Seduce @ The Rhythm Room

Sergio Mendoza y La Orkestra is an amazing latin band taking you back to the days of the Indie-Mambo sound with its 12 plus members band Y La Orkesta. Combining traditional Cuban rhythms with the swing of American Jazz, and Big Band harmonic sophistications. Unlike revival Mambo from the 1990’s, Y La Orkesta maintains their influence from 1940’s and 1950’s Jazz by utilizing tight percussion and high register trumpets. DJ Seduce joins the night spinning an all vinyl Dj set in tribute to FANIA Records. Come dance to all the Latin Jazz, Salsa, Cuban Latin Rhythms you can handle!!

Tickets are just $8.00 pre-sale / $10.00 at the door. Plus the Rhythm Room will have the BBQ Rack Shack serving food! You won't find a better performance all winter!

Contact me for more details / pre-sale tickets if you're interested. I posted this event, for those who love the sounds of live Latin rhythms.

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Ancient Future Times: Announcing A.F.A.R: Archive of Future Ancient Recordings

Posted Wed, 11/25/2009 - 8:07am by ancientfuture

Archive of Future Ancient Recordings (A.F.A.R.)





30th Anniversary CD Mystery Cover



Join Ancient Future in Creating a 30th Anniversary Subscription Recording Series

In December, 1978, Ancient Future went into Tres Virgos Studio in Mill Valley to begin work on the first Ancient Future record, Visions of a Peaceful Planet. During Ancient Future's 30th anniversary year, work began on a new Ancient Future band project: the Archive of Future Ancient Recordings (A.F.A.R.). The A.F.A.R. concept is to involve you, fans of world fusion music, in supporting the creation of an archive of live and studio recordings that will be available to subscribers as they are created. The best of these recordings will be selected to be released commercially at a future date, at which point they will be on their way to becoming "ancient" recordings!

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Double Focus - New Ras Nas CD with music and poetry

Posted Sun, 11/22/2009 - 8:40pm by Kongoi
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Double Focus by Nasibu Mwanukuzi aka Ras Nas. Music and poetry
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The long awaited CD “Double Focus” by the Tanzanian poet and musician Ras Nas aka Nasibu Mwanukuzi is set for release in Oslo, Norway, in November this year. The CD contains music and spoken word. Recorded at Urban Sound studio in Oslo by the legendary recording engineer Jock Loveband, “Double Focus” brings together musicians from Mali, South Africa, Norway, Bangladesh and Brazil. The poems are based on an anthology of poetry by Nasibu published by Kongoi Productions in 1989.

Double Focus is a continuation of the ancient African oral tradition of storytelling through poetry but taken a step further. The ngoni, an ancient African stringed instrument played by Sidiki Camara from Mali, creates a mellow and dream-like mood on two of the tracks. The African marimba by Zwai Mbula from South Africa provides a strong warm groove on some other tracks, while the strange and inventive sax of Rolf-Erik Nystrøm from Norway gives Double Focus a truly original energy. The Amazon Ensemble from Brazil and the singer Kohinoor from Bangladesh have also taken part, making “Double Focus” a rare universal product that is worth having by any music and poetry lover.

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Ancient Future TImes: Northern California Concerts, Workshop, New Videos, and GuitarPlayer.Com Article

Posted Sat, 10/31/2009 - 1:53am by ancientfuture

November 2009 Issue: Northern California Edition
Welcome to the Ancient Future Times
Email newsletter of the World Fusion Music Ensemble Ancient Future



In This Issue:

11/11/2009 Acoustic Guitar Showcase at the Sleeping Lady Cafe, Fairfax
•Featured Video: Matthew Montfort Performs 'Soul Serenade'
11/15/2009 Cornucopia: An Evening of East West Music at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek
•Featured Video: Khan/Montfort/Brooks Perform Indian Raga
01/01/2010 Welcome the New Year with a World Music Workshop at Esalen, Big Sur
•Featured Video: Matthew Montfort Demonstrates Hendrix Raga for GuitarPlayer.Com (Just Published!)

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