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In its second year, Gladstone World attracting world music lovers and drawing performers and audiences from Toronto's diverse communities. The series Gladstone World 2008 takes place Friday of the month featuring a diverse selection of world music. This Monthly World Music Series has broad appewill run from 7pm to 10pm prior to the Melody Bar's already well established karaoke night which begins at 10pm.
ADMISSION IS FREE
Performance Schedule March - June:
Mar 7 – REGGAE COWBOYS Four Caribbean ex-pats, based in Toronto, Canada, they are winning countless fans worldwide with their heart-rollicking reggae-based sound. Layering influences that include a mix of Caribbean genres, rock & roll and six-string spaghetti-western drama over reggae's “one-drop” riddim. www.reggaecowboys.com
Review at maple music: www.maplemusic.com/artists/rgc/bio.aspApr 4 – GROOVEBONE From London, Ontario, Groovebone is comprised of four top R&B & soul players who play a funk and soul gumbo with a new Orleans twist.
May 2 – ADAM SOLOMAN Pro fessor Adam Solomon, featured on the Juno-award winning CD African Guitar Summit (CBC), combines the best guitar tradition of the early 1960s with modern East African big band sound from Congo, Tanzania and Kenya, and beautiful lyrics from Mombasa, to create a most original style best described as Afro-Soul Rhumba.
CD review - http://cdbaby.com/cd/adamsolomon3June 6 – GYPSY REBELS Based in torontos culturally vibrant Kensington market the gypsy rebels pulls together a diverse and eclectic group of the citys top versatile musicians to inspire a worldly sound which draws on Serbian gypsy traditions and lays them down with popular funk and reggae grooves. www.thegypsyrebels .com
Performance schedule for July - Dec will be announced April 2008
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