Art is never neutral in the struggle for a new world. The Afro Yaqui Music Collective combines rhythms of Africa, Asia, and the Yaqui people to imagine a world beyond mass incarceration and ecocide — a world where life fits. And they will be here at SongSpace to disturb, inspire and amaze you this coming Saturday!
Blending jazz and native Yaqui tribe musical influences of founders Ben Barson and Gizelxanath Rodriguez with Asian, Rap, Tango and African musics, AYMC is soothing, introspective, grooving, hard-hitting and funky all at once. You can hear more about them Wednesday in the 11 o’clock hour of Whiskey Before Breakfast, and hear Ben and Gizel live in the studio at 11am this Saturday on the Saturday Light Brigade!
“For the Pittsburgh-based funk-jazz group Afro Yaqui Music Collective, advocacy is at the core of who they are. Their new album, a jazz opera titled Mirror Butterfly: the Migrant Liberation Movement Suite, is about climate change and mass migration.” — Nick Lippa, WBFO 88.7 NPR Buffalo
“A one word summary of this concert? Unforgettable. To simply call the event a “concert” would be a misnomer- instead it was a musical journey, blending funk, jazz, hip-hop, rap, African music, Yaqui and Tzotzil-Tzeltal indigenous music from northern Mexico with powerful political messages.” — Dhruva Krishna,FoundSound Music
“Percussively driven and mighty.” — WNYC New Sounds
Come and be moved and inspired.
Afro Yaqui Music Collective at SongSpace
Saturday January 11, 2020, 7:30pm
Doors – 7:00pm
Get your tickets in advance & save a few dollars!
$20 advance, songspace.brownpapertickets.com
$25 at the door
$10 discount for students/reduced income.
First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh, Shadyside, 605 Morewood Avenue, Pgh., 15213. All ages; wheelchair accessible. For more information, 412.621.8008 or uusongspace@gmail.com or uusongspace.com.
