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Y! MyWebLineup for this summer's 2008 Cityfolk Festival announced
This year's lineup will continue the tradition of diverse musical talent downtown.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
DAYTON — Let's start with Slavic Soul Party, a Balkan soul gypsy funk brass band out of New York City.
That's right — a Balkan, soul, gypsy, funk, brass, band, from New York City.
Extras
2008 Cityfolk Festival
- WHEN: 6 to 10:30 p.m. July 3 and 1 to 11 p.m. July 4-5, with the city of Dayton Independence Day fireworks display beginning about 10 p.m. July 3
- WHERE: RiverScape MetroPark, 100 E. Monument Ave., and surrounding streets, downtown Dayton
- COST: Free
- MORE INFO: Festival details will be available online Thursday, April 17, at Cityfolk's Web site, www.cityfolk.org
- PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE: K-12 Gallery for Young People, the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery and the Dayton Art Institute
Consider that combination for a moment.
It's for real, and it's coming to town this summer as one of the performing acts participating in the 2008 Cityfolk Festival downtown. Festival organizers announced a nearly complete performance lineup last week.
The cross-cultural eclecticism of Slavic Soul Party reflects the confluence of cultural traditions and styles that mingle on the streets of Dayton for three days each summer as part of the free annual extravaganza presented by Cityfolk, the locally based nonprofit arts organization. This year's event will be July 3-5 on the streets adjoining RiverScape MetroPark.
The nine-member Slavic Soul Party also reflects a certain trend in emerging young musical ensembles, which increasingly are taking a diverse blend of influences and combining them into something new and wholly original, while still maintaining a strong connection to the roots that gave them life.
Cityfolk's Executive Director John Harris said that he and his staff are seeing a growing number of such groups entering the touring circuit. "There's so much stuff out there that crosses so many genres," Harris said last week while describing the range of performing acts scheduled to appear at the festival this summer.
Such groups usually feature relatively young performers, and they seem to appeal particularly to younger audiences, who share the experience of growing up in a cultural setting of multiple influences and traditions.
That reflection of real life experience is part of the reason Cityfolk staff are keen to include such acts in the festival, which celebrates the rich diversity not only within our community, but also the world.
Musical genres that will be gracing the festival's three stages in 2008 include bluegrass, traditional country, blues, French-Canadian, Cajun, Hawaiian, American roots, black gospel, Latin jazz, Middle Eastern flute, Mexican "son," New Orleans parade and, of course, the Balkan soul gypsy funk brass sounds of Slavic Soul Party.
2008 Cityfolk Festival tentative performance schedule
(Starting times are approximate.)
July 3
5 p.m.: Street performances
10:30 p.m.: City of Dayton fireworks
Main Stage
5:30 p.m.: Ricky Nye
6:30 p.m.: Ruthie Foster
8:30 p.m.: Geno Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie
10:30 p.m.: City of Dayton fireworks display
Dance Pavilion
6 p.m.: To be announced
8 p.m.: Slavic Soul Party
July 4
Main Stage
5 p.m.: Rhythm in Shoes
6:30 p.m.: Sones de Mexico with Sol Azteca
8 p.m.: Blue Highway
9:30 p.m.: Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives
Dance Pavilion
1 p.m.: Dance workshop with Rhythm in Shoes
3 p.m.: Geno Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie
4:30 p.m.: Open
6 p.m.: Slavic Soul Party
8:30 p.m.: Geno Delafose and French Rockin' Boogie
Family Stage
1 p.m.: Shape Note Singing
2:30 p.m.: Mexican Traditional Music Workshop, with Sones de Mexico
3:30 p.m.: Hawaiian Hotshots with Leilani
4:45 p.m.: Blue Highway
6 p.m.: Dearborn Traditional Ensemble, featuring the Middle Eastern flute
7:30 p.m.: Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers
July 5
Main Stage
4 p.m. Les Chauffeurs a Lieds
5:15 p.m.: Katie Laur Band Reunion
6:15 p.m. Ohio Heritage Fellowship awards
6:30 p.m.: Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers
8 p.m.: Dirty Dozen Brass Band
9:30 p.m.: Poncho Sanchez
Dance Pavilion
1 p.m.: Hula dance workshop, with Leilani and the Hawaiian Hotshots
2:30 p.m.: Square and contra dance with the Corndrinkers
4-11 p.m.: To be announced
Family Stage
1 p.m.: Sinclair Community College Gospel Ensemble
2 p.m.: Middle Eastern Music Workshop, with Nadeem Dlaiken
3:15 p.m.: Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Singers
4:15 p.m.: Hawaiian Hotshots with Leilani
5:30 p.m.: Dearborn Traditional Ensemble, featuring the Middle Eastern flute
7 p.m.: Les Chauffeurs a Pieds
2008 Cityfolk Festival performers
Blue Highway: Award-winning five-piece bluegrass band from Tennessee
Bobby Ingano Band: An all-star group of Hawaiian steel guitarists from Oahu, with locally based hula dancer Leilani
Les Chauffeurs a Pieds: Three-man French-Canadian band from Quebec City
The Corndrinkers: Locally based old-time string band
Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Lauded eight-member New Orleans brass band
Gena Delafose and his band, French Rockin' Boogie: Zydeco accordion master from Louisiana
Katie Laur Band Reunion: Blues-tinged bluegrass with southwest Ohio roots
Marty Stuart: Grand Ole Opry member and country music archivist and ambassador
Nadeem Dlaikan: National Heritage Fellow based in Detroit, player and maker of the "nye," a Middle Eastern reed flute
Northern Kentucky Brotherhood Quartet: Black a cappella gospel ensemble from Covington, Ky.
Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band: Grammy-winning octet led by the veteran conga player
Rhythm in Shoes: Dayton's own traditional music and dance ensemble
Ricky Nye: Cincinnati-based boogie-woogie, blues and New Orleans-style piano player
Ruthie Foster: Rootsy Texas singer, guitarist and songwriter
Slavic Soul Party: Balkan soul gypsy funk brass band
Sones de Mexico: Six-member, Grammy-nominated "folklorico" band, specializing in Mexican "son," based in Chicago
