Category: World
I'm trying not to get upset that I won't be able to attend Omar Sosa's free concert next week, March 25, 2009, at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC.
I stumbled upon Omar's work about a year ago now when I was studying Carribean and Afro-Cuban Jazz rhythmns. Let's just say I was blown away with the way he melds modern world music, jazz, and Western Africa together in one big yummy dessert.
This falls under "things I'm groovin' to these days." Afro-Pop Shop is where to go for rarely found music in the U.S. They have a nice selection of local music from places like Peru, Chile, Argentina, Columbia, etc.
I was walking through the house humming along to Rusted Root's Send Me On My Way playing off my music server and thought to myself, "Whatever happened to Jim Donovan? Didn't I sign up for his workshop last summer?" Sure enough. I signed up for one of Jim Donovan's workshops but decided against it at the last minute because of the Pagan Spiritualism overtones the syllabus had. Nevertheless, Jim has a great resource website for world percussion.
