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Friday, November, 19
"Second Line March" New Orleans style
Time: 1:00 PM
Musicans Mutual Protective Union Local No 174-496
2401 Esplanade Ave
New Orleans, LA
Spirit For Healing Drum Circle
w/ Remo artist and facilitator Paulo Mattioli
and Special Guest Luther Gray
Time: After Parade
Congo Square
New Orleans, LA
Join Big Chief Victor Harris of the Fi Yi Yi Indian tribe (one of New Orleans finest Mardi Gras Indian Tribes) and a New Orleans Second Line Band in a Second Line March and Parade to Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park, just across the street from the famous French Quarter.
Marchers will converge on Congo Square park for an Open Drum Circle, led by Remo artist and facilitator Paulo Mattioli. A candlelight vigil will follow.
The Drum Circle will be one of a kind, combining the unique sounds of Mardi Gras Indians and 2nd line drummers, in addition to legendary drummers and percussionist from around the world. The chants and rhythms will be recorded and released on the upcoming production featuring a variety of Louisiana artists; produced by New Orleans own Timothea. The event will be broadcast live on radio and internet by WWOZ FM Radio.
ALL are welcome to come and participate in this event! BYOD (Bring Your Own Drum). Ray Fransen's Drum Shop will participate in this circle, and may have some drums for sale.
Congo Square - "It all started here in the 18th century. Southern slaves congregated at an open-air marketing to socialize and jam in African drum circles. And although at one point slave owners banned the drumming in public, the beginnings of jazz, blues and gospel echoed in their beats..."
Drum Circle is sponsored by Remo Drums, DrumsOnTheWeb.com, and Ray Fransen's Drum Shop (504.466.8484)
 Paulo Mattioli is a world renowned multi-percussionist, educator and instrument designer. Paulo has performed with artists such as Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Kenny Loggins, Mickey Hart and Babatunde Olatunji. He has studied and recorded with the world’s top African Drummers.
Paulo has a special ability to inspire and empower others via the drum. He is passionate about his work, radiating joy, patience and willingness, while graciously sharing the Spirit of Rhythm and community teambuilding.
Paulo tours nationwide, facilitating corporate, college and community drum circles. He leads Rhythm Journey drum events, master classes and clinics worldwide. He is a signature artist for Remo World Percussion, designer of the Remo Djembe drum and authored the number one rated instructional video series, "Hands on Drumming".
Paulo is the musical director of "Drums of Fire," a West African drum and dance performance ensemble, featured nationally on Fox television's, The Method Show. Paulo's new World Music CD "Around the World in Rhythm" provides the soundtrack which drove "The Method" videos to the top ten on the Billboard charts.
Luther Gray - Founder, Congo Square Foundation
Luther began studying percussion and song writing while a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has performed within African dance companies, jazz ensembles, funk groups, theater productions, and films since 1971.
Luther has been inspired and studied with many of the great drummers, jazz musicians, and dancers of his generation. Among them are master drummers Mor Thiam, Babatunde Olatunji, Ladji Camara, and Chief Bey. He has studied and collaborated with the following great dancers and choreographers, Ferne Caulker-Bronson, Founder and Choreographer of the Ko-Thi African Dance Company in Milwaukee, WI; the legendary dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham, Abdoulaye "Poppa" Camara from the National Dance Company of Senegal, and Darlene Blackburn of Chicago. In the field of jazz, Luther has studied and performed with Jimmy Cheatham, Phil Cohran, Buddy Montgomery, Donald Harrison, Jr. Hannibal Lokumbe and many others.
In 1982, Luther moved to New Orleans to work for BellSouth and continue his career in music. He was one of the founding members of Percussion Incorporated in New Orleans and was the Executive Producer of their two albums, "Windswept" in 1988 and "Congo Square" in 1991. In 1989, Luther founded the Congo Square Foundation, which was responsible for placing Congo Square on the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 1993. The foundation has conducted lectures, drum workshops, sponsored 24 hour drumming vigils, erected historic markers and produced four Congo Square International Festivals in their efforts to revitalize Congo Square and Armstrong Park.
In 1994, Luther started Bamboula 2000; an exciting music and dance experience and produced its two compact discs, "Cultural Warrior" released in 1996 and "New Society" released in 2000. The group has twice won the prestigious Big Easy Music Award in the World Music category for its accomplishments in 1996 and 2001.
As a songwriter, Luther has composed, recorded and released over 50 songs that range in style from traditional drumming, reggae, jazz, inspirational, and contemporary funk and rhythm & blues. Luther appeared as a drummer in the film, "Interview with a Vampire" and as an extra in "Eve's Bayou". Luther has taught over 50,000 students in the United States and Canada during his long musical career. His teaching method combines tradition and its application in a modern technological world. He believes exposing young people to positive cultural values through drumming helps to guide them along the path of a Culture of Life rather than a Culture of Death that attracts too many of our youth.
Luther's vast travels as a drummer have taken him to Ghana, Togo and Benin, in West Africa. He has performed and traveled to Martinique, the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas in the Caribbean. He has toured with Bamboula throughout the Vera Cruz region of Mexico. He has toured with the Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indians in Singapore, Martinique, France and throughout the United States including a 1995 Academy Awards Party at the House of Blues in Los Angeles.
He feels all of these experiences help him to understand how to relate to people all over the world in a manner that brings greater understanding, respect and unity.
the Fi Yi Yi Indian Tribe
Please plan to attend these important events
and help stop the spread of Hepatitis C.
Accommodations have been reserved at a special rate of $67.00 per night at the Holiday Inn Westbank. Call toll free 1-877-553-1235. To reserve your room at this discounted rate, please mention the booking code "Siren To Wail – HMA."
Holiday Inn Westbank
100 Westbank Expressway
Gretna, Louisiana 70053
1-877-553-1235
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