Dec 17, 2024 9:58 AM
Tabla Master Zakir Hussain, 73, Succumbs to Illness
Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors and a revered figure worldwide…
With the August release of a new album, Verse (Blue Note/Premonition), singer/pianist Patricia Barber is currently on an extensive international tour.
Dates of the tour, with guitarist Neal Alger, bassist Mike Arnopol and drummer Eric Monztka, are as follows:
Sept. 19-20: Boston, Regatta Bar
Sept. 21: Montreal, Spectrum
Oct. 11: Istanbul, Cemal Resit Concert Hall
Oct. 12: Club Babylon
Oct. 14: Illefranche, France
Oct. 15: Dijon, France
Oct. 16: Thonon, France
Oct. 18: Portes la Velnces, France
Oct. 19: Massy, France
Oct. 21: Paris
Oct. 22: Rouen, France
Oct. 23: Toullouse, France
Nov. 6: San Francisco, Palace Of Fine Arts
Nov. 8-10: Seattle, Jazz Alley
Nov. 11: Portland, Ore., Lolas
For more information, go to www.bluenote.com.
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