a very interesting concert in the boston area -- i probably can't make it

Fiuczynski, at least, has been mentioned on this list before . . .

Event: World-jazz group Natraj and Agbekor Society featured at Ryles
Jazz Club
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003
Time: 8:30 PM - 12:30 AM

The world-jazz ensemble Natraj and the West-African-folkloric Agbekor
Society team up for an extraordinary evening of world music at Ryles
Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire St., Inman Square, Cambridge, MA. Also
featured will be special guest David Fiuczynski on guitar. Tickets
are $10. Ages 18 plus are welcome. Validated parking is available.
For tickets and information, call (617) 876-9330 or visit
www.bostonbands.com/natraj.

Natraj seamlessly melds the classical music of India, traditional
music from West Africa, and contemporary jazz to create its own
unique and infectious style. The Agbekor Society, founded in 1979 by
Tufts University Music Department faculty member, David Locke,
performs high-energy polyrhythmic traditional West African music. At
Ryles, the Agbekor Society will complement the improvisational style
of Natraj with its folkloric performances. The evening will culminate
in a Natraj-Agbekor collaboration featuring highly charged
contemporary adaptations of traditional Ghanaian music. The
performance will showcase David Locke's West African drumming
artistry. This will be unforgettable evening combining contemporary
and traditional approaches to West African music.

In its performances at PANAFEST, Ghana's major international
festival, Natraj "successfully fused African grooves with romantic
Indian ragas... exotic... captivating..." — Graphic Showbiz, Accra,
Ghana.

Natraj features Phil Scarff - soprano saxophone, guest David
Fiuczynski - guitar, Michael Rivard - bass, Jerry Leake - tabla and
multipercussion, and Bertram Lehmann - drums.