Date: March 1st 2008

Hello Everyone! Happy March!

Start the month off right with some Balkan dancing tomorrow night at DROM, move into some experimental sounds by the middle of the week in Williamsburg, salsa like crazy Thursday eve with LA BUYA in Brooklyn, and check out new dance and music by women at the WOW Cafe in NYC. Hope to see you there (all of them!) and thanks for supporting live music and performance!

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1.* SATURDAY March 1
Greg Squared's Asambl Mastika @ DROM, 85 Ave A between 5th and 6th St., Lower East Side NYC 9pm
Greg Squared - sax/cl., Jessica Lurie - sax/cl., Joey Wiesenberg - gtr., Matthew Fass - accordion, Reuben Radding - bass, EJ - drums How Much: Two great groups, $12

On Saturday March 1st at 9 pm, Ansambl Mastika (ansamblmastika.com, myspace.com/ansamblmastika) and the Black Sea Hotel (myspace.com/blackseahotel), will be bringing Brooklyn’s newest Balkan Uproar to Drom, Manhattan’s newest and hippest world music venue. The evening will consist of original music and interpretations by some of the foremost American practitioners of the various Balkan styles.

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2. * WEDNESDAY March 5
KRAMPUS: Jessica Lurie -saxes / Andrew Drury - drums / Daniel Carter - saxes / Jonathan goldberger - guitar
@ 507 Bar, Williamsburg/Brooklyn, NY 9:30 pm
@ Galapagos Performance Space,Williamsburg Brooklyn,
at MIDNIGHT with special guests!
as part of This Is Our Music – A New Monthly Series! Curated by Brad Farberman

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3.* THURSDAY March 6 LA BUYA @ Bembe, Brooklyn 10:30 pm
http://www.myspace.com/labuyamusic
Isabelle Pupo-Walker - percussion / Neil Ochoa - drums / Aaron Halva - guitar / Ben Rubin - bass / Cochemea Gastelum - flute and sax / Jessica Lurie - flute and sax
BEMBE
http://www.bembe.us
81 S 6th St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 387-5389

La Buya is a high-energy horn and percussion band with a repertoire of original jazz, funk & groove music juxtaposed with traditional latin tunes.The music combines the melodic and percussive horns lines of Cochemea Gastelum (alto sax, bass clarinet) and Jessica Lurie (alto and tenor sax, flute) with the dynamic afro-cuban influences of percussionists Isabel Pupo-Walker and Neil Ochoa. Linked together by the rich tones of Ben Rubin's upright bass and Aaron Halva on tres guitar, the horns and percussion weave to create danceable grooves and improvisations. All of the players in La Buya are nationally and internationally recognized in the jazz, funk and groove scenes and have a long history of performing together in various ensembles. The combined star power of the individual members and the creative energy of the whole band is sure to fill a room and keep it moving.

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4. * FRIDAY March 7 dance/music piece with Ashley Brockington, Rivers of Honey Performance Series,
@WOW CAFE THEATRE, 59 East 4th St. Between 2nd and Bowery. 8pm
(Buzzer 6, 4th fl)
$10 dollars (no one turned away for lack of funds)


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Jessica Lurie
http://www.jessicalurie.com
http://www.myspace.com/jessicaluriemusic
http://www.myspace.com/tiptons
http://myspace.com/labuyamusic
http://myspace.com/sheqer