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MUSIC PILGRIM TRI0, NOVEMBER 23D
Vladimir Fridman, Seth Kibel, and Bob Abbott combine a wealth of experience and virtuosity with a fearless improvisational spirit. With smiles on their faces and a spring in their step, they combine influences from a myriad of musical genres -- Jazz, Klezmer, Russian, Classical, Latin-American music, and more!
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Here is a VIDEO from this event.
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WINTER JAM AND OPEN MIC, JANUARY 4TH
All local musical talent are invited to share our joyful love of music and good conversation. Bring instruments, friends, and drinks! All music genres are welcome!
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FOLKLORICA RUSSE, FEBRUARY 1st, 6 PM
Contemporary interpretation of Russian Musical Tradition in an interactive setting.
Valentina Kvasova (New York, NY) is a Russian folk singer and dancer. She combines medieval harmonies and cutting-edge contemporary sound into multi instrumental performance with songs and movement. Folklorist llya Tëmkin (Washington, DC), is an expert in traditional Russian instruments, particularly the GUSLI. In his interactive musical demonstration, Ilya will share the history, performance, and construction of GUSLI and other traditional historic instruments. VIDEO
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MUSALIANCE: FROM BAROCCO TO FLAMENCO, FEBRUARY 22nd
Featuring classical and folk melodies, which have not been performed with guitar, domra, and mandolin ever before! Including "The Flight of the Bumblebee" (Rimsky Korsakov), Paganini, Schubert, songs from popular films, Russian romances, and folk songs from all over the world
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2021
TRIOVERA August 28, 6:30 pm
One of the Soviet Union's top bass players of the 1970s and '80s, Viktor Dvoskin has continued to make his presence felt on the global stage since relocating to the United States in 1993. Dvoskin a classically trained bassist with a degree from Moscow’s Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. As one of the top jazz bassists in the former Soviet Union, Dvoskin spent 10 years with the Soviet jazz band Allegro and is now considered one of the most outstanding bass players in the US.
The members of TrioVera bring their lyrical and highly evolved style to interpretations of material from composers ranging from Jerome Kern to Richie Bierach, as well as performing their original compositions.
ARTICLE in the Washington Post
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"FIREWORKS IN YOUR HONOR"/'ФЕЙЕРВЕРК В ТВОЮ ЧЕСТЬ, MARCH 14th 7 PM.
95 Blues Berry Way 20th Anniversary Reunion
Members of 95BBW are getting together to remember the solo-guitarist Aleksei Gavril and recall a few tunes they used to play.
See the Facebook Event for more info
2019
2020
Zhenia Rock (The Flying Balalaika Brothers)
December 18, 6 pm.
Accomplished guitar player Zhenya Rock bridged the gap between Romani (Gypsy) rooted and Balkan traditional folk music with rock and jazz styles developing his own brilliant and unique eclectic format.
See Facebook EVENT for more info.
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ALEXANDER SHERBINA (MOSCOW) September 26, 5pm
Musician, song-writer, and playwright with a unique talent for his own poetry reading in a modern urban style.
Это творчество современно и классично одновременно. И по-настоящему цепляет. Часто – до мурашек. Пронзительная «Я умею смотреть», легендарная уже «О Безумной Маше», лирическая «Соул для Юлии», трагическая «Импрессионисты», драйвная «До завтра, брат!», остроумнейшая «Лайф из гуд»... Если вы уже слышали эти песни, вы знаете, о чём речь. Если нет – добро пожаловать в разносторонний и разножанровый мир современного автора.
WEBSITE: www.sherbina.ru
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ELLINA GRAYPEL and HER BAND (New York), October 16, 6:30 pm.
Ellina Graypel and her band (alternative rock) are coming back with a new program. Many new guitar stories will be told, many familiar songs will be sang. More info about ELLINA: http://www.ellinagraypel.org/\
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Deep Strings: Traditional Greek and Mediterranean Music
December 4, 6:30pm
Deep Strings is an instrumental duo based in the Baltimore/DC region. Deep Strings draws from the rich world of traditional Greek and Mediterranean music and performs with their own unique arrangements, styles, and personalities.
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Musalliance Duo: Journey Around the World
January 29, 6:30pm
New interactive program by the Mussalliance Duo includes the most famous World Music pieces arranged for domra (mandolin) and guitar. The graduates of the Gnesin Music Academy will take you on a musical journey to Greece, Hungary, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, and more! The evening will be opened by AgMusic Space hostess Katya Denisova with a short bard songs program.
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2023
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"FIREWORKS IN YOUR HONOR"
'ФЕЙЕРВЕРК В ТВОЮ ЧЕСТЬ"
March 13, 5 pm
Aleksey Gavril's Memorial Music Jam
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FILM PRESENTATION: UNBURNED LETTERS: EINSTEIN AND MARGARITA
By Vadim Massalsky and Shamil Nafshadzade.
March 26, 6 PM
Born in Odessa, grew up in Kuban, later worked in Moscow, Vadim Massalsky is a writer and journalist. After the film, he will present his new book "The Secret of Fort Ross", sharing his research on Russians in Fort Ross, California.
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MAXIM GUSELSHIKOV- VIRTUOSO VIOLIN
May 1, 6 pm
Макс Гусельщиков, скрипач-виртуоз, композитор, мультиинструменталист, продюсер.С 2007 года и по сей день является скрипачем легендарной московской рок-группы "Крематорий".
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TANGO REO
November 12, 6 pm -Tango Lesson, 7pm-Band Performance and Dancing
Washington D.C. based Tango group, Tango Reo represents the vibrant and seductive rhythms that comprise tango repertoire. Claudia Gargiulo, from Argentina, provides the mesmerizing vocals, Susan Jones adds emotional intensity on the violin, Valerie Higgs holds the band together with her skillful and passionate piano playing, Brett Lemley adds the distinctive Tango flavor with his Bandoneon, and Cyndy Elliot lays the foundation with her bass.
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BLUEBERRY MUFFINS
December 3, 6 pm
The band Blueberry Muffins (New Jersey, New York) will present bits and pieces of pop, Latin, funk, jazz, rock - sung in different languages and mixed together into an Olivier Salad of a program.
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NADIA CHECHET, NYC
February 11, 6:30 pm
Nadia Chechet (New York, USA) is a crossover singer and songwriter of Russian and Belorussian heritage, composer, voice and accent coach, author of various theme-based vocal masterclasses, session vocalist for Output and Netflix, official artist representative of a record label “Silver Gun Records” (Los Angeles, CA), Berklee College of Music Alumna, recipient of the prestigious Berklee College of Music scholarship and the Berklee Voice Department Vocal Achievement Award, participant and winner of multiple music festivals in the US
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ARTUR SMOLIANINOV: MUSIC AND LYRICS
April 6, 6 pm
Russian film and thearter actor, film director, and song-writer, Artur describes the genre of his work as 'cinema-rock' or 'human-rock".
Facebook Event.
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KIRILL KOMAROV, ST.PETERSBURG
March 11, 7 pm
All the way from St.Petersburg, Russia, this is Kirill's second appearance at AGMS.
2022
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OLGA CHIKINA
September, 16, 6pm
Olga Chikina, one of the most prominent Russian songwriters of 21 century, combines traditions of Soviet so-called ''bardic'' song and Russian rock poetry. She is the soul of many Russian festivals, a melodist of perfect taste and an author of most delicate, good-humored, self-ironic and kind-hearted lyrics.
Facebook Event
TATIANA KOLOSOVA, ST. PETERSBURG/NYC
'Неслучайные песни"
May 6, 6pm
Tatiana is graduate of St. Petersburg conservatory where she was trained in the best traditions of vocal arts. She is a singer and an actress. Her program "Non-accidental Songs" will include the French chanson (sung in French), and a mix of Russian romances, songs by Vladimir Vyssotsky, and Marina Tsvetaeva's poetry.
Facebook Event
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HOLIDAYS WITH NADIA CHECHET
November 25, 6 pm
Nadia Chechet’s (NY) Holiday Hits concert is a night of soulful vocals accompanied by her band in an intimate setting, filled with lively atmosphere in anticipation of the warmest holidays of the year. Nadia will perform Holiday and Christmas songs in English, Russian and French languages.
Facebook Event
"FIREWORKS IN YOUR HONOR"
'ФЕЙЕРВЕРК В ТВОЮ ЧЕСТЬ"
March 18, 5 pm
Aleksey Gavril's 4th Memorial Music Jam
All local musical talent are invited to share our joyful love of music and a good conversation. Bring instruments, friends, and drinks! All music genres are welcome!
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"FIREWORKS IN YOUR HONOR"
'ФЕЙЕРВЕРК В ТВОЮ ЧЕСТЬ"
March 16, 5 pm
Aleksey Gavril's 5th Memorial Music Jam
All local musical talent are invited to share our joyful love of music and a good conversation. Bring instruments, friends, and drinks! All music genres are welcome!
