Wild night @ ~bush baby~ with Sounds of Taraab

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Wild night @ ~bush baby~ with Sounds of Taraab
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Coffee, tea & taraab in Bklyn' s heartland!
We of Sounds of Taraab wanna thank all our cultured, loyal and newly-met fans for coming out again to make yet another wonderful evening happen.
You all couldn't have come to do it at a better place...~bush baby~

Located in the heart of Brooklyn [Bedford Stuyvesant] bush baby is just one of many local hangouts in this vibrant neighborhood of stores, shops and eateries. It is home to many immigrants from West African nations like Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast [Cote D"Ivoire aux Francais] as well as varied Caribbean West Indies peoples.....Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Guyanese, and African Americans.
It was a wonderful scene as we played our music during the night...Being the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan, the local mosque was emptying itself of worshippers, just finishing the evening prayers, and the streets were full of people in their elegant robes, thobes and other native garb, piling into restaurants and coffee-tea shops, visiting and socializing as they do in their respective countries. And there we were, playing taraab music, smiling and curious faces peering into the window of bush baby.... What an experience!

Boasting fresh gourmet coffee and teas from around the world, as well as delicious light fare, bush baby is a great place to relax, read a book, meditate, or to see a great band or singer perform, as they have music regularly. Folk singers, Afro pop, Jazz, Latin, and yes, New York's newest genre of Middle Eastern style music now bursting on the scene, East African Zanzibar taraab as performed by yours truly.

It must have been the many smiling and happy faces in the audience, an audience of sincerely nice, appreciative people, because Sounds of Taraab played really wonderfully last night. We sold many CD's, and added many, many email addresses to our mailing list. In short, the night was a smash for us!

The crowd wouldn't let us leave...they wanted to dance, and demanded encore upon encore. So, Tiye Giraud & Rami El Aasser, our percussionists, did up an impromtu percussion solo as Alsarah and the rest of us clapped hands and chanted in Swahili..
"Ki umbe mapenzi moyon ya kwi kwingiya..
Lala ulala huezi!"

The very lovely ~Olga El~ danced in and among the folk, her delicate, sensuous moves easing in and out of the crowd.
She'll be with us on Sept.25th at the "Shimmy on the Hudson" cruise. Watch tribe.net for further info to be posted next week!

If you get the chance, go out and stop by bush baby. have a cup of coffee or tea. Buy our CD.They have some in stock.

In case you are wondering, they spell bush baby with small case letters, so I remain faithful to the wish of the proprietor. I will always remain faithful to anybody who can run a business like that, who treats musicians with such respect and dignity. I am humble respectful to anyone who is an accomplished artist.

Put time and effort into your art or business, and it will show. bush baby is like that. They have experience, they have put time and effort into their craft, and it shows.
It's like when you view a performance..if the artists are real artists, you know it in your gut. If they are not, well....well, they can always pretend, and be a living legend in their own minds, and be surrounded by pretending fans, and glorify themselves to high heaven on the internet. People will pay for anything. But, bush baby, like the musical talents of Sounds of Taraab, is real, experienced, and tried.
Don't mean to sound stuck up, but I appreciate the real thing, and obviously, people will pay for it...yes, even cultured intellectuals. people who pay to hear music and see dance, not try to mimic you or clone you. They are doctors, lawyers, shopkeepers, working people, secretaries, mechanics. They respect you enough to talk to you, ask you if you give lessons, ask where you are playing again, but no one, not one person even attempted to break out a dumbek or tamborine to jam along with us. This tells me they respect the artists, in this case us, and thereby themselves.
Thank you, dear cultured fans, for coming out. See y'all soon!
Enjoy a cup of your favotie brew at ~bush baby~

~bush baby~
1197 Fulton St, at Bedford Ave.
Bklyn, NY 11216
The C train or Shuttle goes to Franklin Ave.

www.myspace.com/bushbabyinc - Unsubscribed , posted 09/13/08

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