World Voices & Strings

World Voices & Strings

This will be a collaborative evening of soulful African finger-style blues Balkan polyphonic singing Indian slide guitar World percussion and more.

Featuring guitarist composer and vocalist Dave Cipriani http://davecipriani.com/; world music percussionist and Topanga local Jamie Papish https://jamiepapishmusic.com/ ; and the singing group Mezečina co-founded by Topanga-raised Justine Kragen

About Dave Cipriani

Dave has decades of experience as a professional musician composer & band leader of his band Mahadev. He has studied and played with a variety of famous teachers musical styles and traditions. Dave's diverse background include studies in jazz balkan/classical/flamenco/African finger style blues guitar sitar and Indian slide guitar. Dave holds an MFA in North Indian Music at California Institute of the Arts. He has self-produced 4 CDs and has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the Baltimore Office of Promotions and the Arts. 

About Mezečina (meh-zeh-chee-nah)

a Los Angeles-based group made up of 4 woman each with years of performance teaching composing and arranging experience. They are stretching the boundaries of folk music from Eastern Europe and beyond.

Particularly drawn to the mesmerizing rhythms and melodies of Balkan music they embrace folk music as a blend of new and old traditions: as a living breathing art form that connects us all. www.facebook.com/mezecina

About Jamie Papish

A veteran percussionist recording artist composer arranger and teacher of 25 years. Jamie specializes in a variety of world & sacred music and percussion styles ranging from Middle Eastern Turkish Persian Sephardic Yemenite Ashkenazi Armenian Balkan and Kirtan. He has toured the world with the award winning Yuval Ron Ensemble and continues to be a in-demand performer.

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