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The Current Season
Baaba Maal with his 13 Piece Orchestra featuring Mansour Seck Saturday-Sunday March 8-9, 1997, $30, $20, $12 |
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From Senegal comes Baaba Maal's contemporary music, imbued with the
purity of Fulani musical traditions and the cutting edge of
contemporary Western music. His extraordinary performances are punctuated
by elevating melodies, melancholy tones and remarkable rhythms.
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STARfest III Saturday & Sunday, May 10-11 & 17-18, 1997 - $25, $12, $8
The annual V.I. Talent Extravaganza is back, continuing to feature
the island's best performers in a production you won't want to miss.
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Reichhold Caribbean Repertory Theater Series
An Echo in the Bone Fri-Mon, July 11-14, 1997 - $20
Mr. Charles, a white estate owner, has been killed and his presumed
murderer is a black peasant farmer called Crew. Crew's wife Rachel
believes he too is dead and in keeping with her religion holds for him a
nine night ceremony, a standard death ritual that is practiced in
Afro-Caribbean religions. Did Crew kill the estate owner and then himself?
If so, why and how? The answers lie deep in racial memry, the echo in the bone,
and throught the death ritual and possession ceremonies. The past is explored and the
answers sought.
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Man/Woman Business by Edgar White Fri-Mon, July 25-28, 1997 - $20
The contemporary, romantic Caribbean-American musical speaks to
every immigrant woman and man forced into a new environment and faced
with the stresses of maintaining family unity and social and personal
adjustment and adaptation.
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Marilyn by David Edgecombe Fri-Mon, August 8-11, 1997 - $20
Five persons, who together survive the powerful hurricane and its aftermath,
meet years later to relive the experience. Is there some important message they have
missed? Their lives and circumstances have all since changed and present realities
make it difficult fo them to heed what seems to obvious message of the
hurricane.
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Past Events
Paquito D'Rivera & the United Nation Orchestra Saturday, October 12, 1996 - $30, $20, $12 |
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Founded by Dizzy Gillespie to showcase the various cultural
influences that shape jazz, the U.N. Orchestra celebrates
cultural diversity through the "oneness of music." African, Cuban,
Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Brazilian influences within the
jazz tapestry are skillfully woven by the genre's outstanding
young musicians from seven different countries.
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Haworth Shakespeare Festival with Members of The Royal
Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre of
Great Britain in Romeo & Juliet
Friday-Saturday, November 8-9, 1996 - $40, $15, $5 |
An exciting, contemporary conception of
Shakespeare's classic
masterpiece set in South Africa. The universal themes of teenagae
rebellion, youthful passions and first love are explored in new ways
that resonate within our hearts and within our community.
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The Howard Universtiy Alumni Club of St. Thomas & St. John presents the The Howard University Choir Saturday, November 23, 1996 - $50, $30, $20 |
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The Washington Post called them "mesmerizingly beautiful." This
famed choir has performed nationally and abroad for U.S. Presidents
and at Notre Dame in Paris, and featured in TV specials with Leontyn Price.
Come and be mesmerized by a repertoire that ranges from Bach's Mass in B
Minor to traditional Negro spirituals and work songs.
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National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica Saturday & Sunday Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 1996 - $35, $20, $12 |
Celebrating the rich heritage of the
Caribbean through modern dance,
the National Dance Theatre Company has become international
ambassadors of Jamaican culture. Their signature pieces vibrantly
symbolize the stuggles and triumphs of the Caribbean people.
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Awadagin Pratt-Classical Pianist Saturday, January 25, 1997 - $40, $15, $5 |
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One of classical music's most brilliant new stars, Awadagin Pratt
combines technical mastery and emotional depth to create an
evening of beautiful music and magnificent artistry. Presented by the Birch Forum
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4th Annual Virgin Islands Music Awards Saturday, February 8, 1997 - $25, $15
The VI Calypso Association honors the achievements of the
Virgin Islands musicians in all genres of composition and
performance. Come celebrate the accomplishments of your
fellow Virgin Islanders.
Sponsored by the VI Calypso Association.
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