“Morocc’n Roll” is how Hoba Hoba Spirit have been billed for their show at CSPS Hall tonight has been billed, but don’t be fooled. This is not some slickly…
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Electronic cumbia music from Argentina heads to Landfall Festival
Argentina’s La Yegros, dubbed the “first lady of digital cumbia,” performs tonight at CSPS Hall for the Landfall Festival of World Music. La Yegros came into her own…
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Landfall tonight: Check out the music of southern Italy
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino kicks off the seventh annual Landfall Festival of World Music tonight at CSPS Hall. Though the group is true to the tradition of the pizzica dance music of Southern Italy, their music has a distinctly modern vibrancy, as can be seen in the video for “Nu te fermare,” a song from their 2012 album Pizzica Indiavolta…
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Zimbabwe’s Mokoomba play tonight at CSPS
Internationally-acclaimed recording artists Mokoomba bring the vibrant musical traditions of southern Africa to CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids this Friday. Mokoomba’s music takes root in the rich musical heritage of the Victoria Falls region of Zimbabwe while embracing contemporary styles like funk, reggae, hip-hop and R&B. This is the kind of world music that will make almost everyone feel like dancing.
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Rory Block to visit CSPS Hall Saturday
Rory Block did not start out playing the blues. Growing up in New York City’s Greenwich Village during the rise of folk in the 1960s, Block started out by playing classical guitar. Her path changed when, at age 14, she met guitarist Stefan Grossman who introduced her to Mississippi Delta blues. Block quickly grew fond of the style and focused her life on the music. She left home to find the major players of the style — legends like Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis and Son House — and further hone her craft.
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The Hinterlands are bringing Juggalos, B-Boys, Voguers and more to CSPS Hall this weekend
The Hinterlands ensemble are bringing their Detroit-based vaudevillian act, dubbed The Circuit, to CSPS Hall this Friday, October 25. Their new show takes the…
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An interview with the Kinsey Sicks
The Kinsey Sicks have been delighting fans with their poignant brand of political satire since rising out of San Francisco’s Castro District in the early ’90s. Billing themselves as a Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet, the group formed on a lark after a few friends showed up to a Bette Midler concert in drag and quickly…
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Grant-Lee Phillips and Legion Arts release ‘Noah’s Flood’ on fifth anniversary
When singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips performed at CSPS Hall last month in Cedar Rapids, he was so moved by the story of the 2008 floods that he wrote…
