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Madison World Music Festival: Friday
Parno Graszt and Maria De Barros and Mucca Pazza and Orchestre De Tetouan
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Maria De Barros
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Fri Sep 18
3 pm
Madison World Music Festival: Friday at Memorial Union Terrace
Friday's installment of the World Music Festival begins with a bizarre burst of intercontinental momentum, thanks to Chicago ensemble Mucca Pazza (3 p.m.), which blends a parade-sized brass band with elements of Eastern European music, punk rock, and wacky performance art (aided here by stilt-walking troupe Dragon Knights). Morocco's Orchestre De Tetouan (4:15 p.m.) uses such instruments as zithter and two-string fiddle to harness Andalusian music, born of the cross-Mediterranean cultural exchange between Arabs and Europeans. Mucca Pazza plays yet again at 6:15 p.m., followed by singer Maria De Barros' (8 p.m.) pop-tinged, danceable blend of Latin and Caribbean music with that of her native Cape Verde. Closing out a day that seems to be all about wandering musical hybrids, Hungarian band Parno Graszt summons up unruly gypsy music with a large ensemble that includes three guitars, accordions, spoons, and lots of group vocals.
Memorial Union Terrace 800 Langdon St, Madison, WI
Friday's installment of the World Music Festival begins with a bizarre burst of intercontinental momentum, thanks to Chicago ensemble Mucca Pazza (3 p.m.), which blends a parade-sized brass band with elements of Eastern European music, punk rock, and wacky performance art (aided here by stilt-walking troupe Dragon Knights). Morocco's Orchestre De Tetouan (4:15 p.m.) uses such instruments as zithter and two-string fiddle to harness Andalusian music, born of the cross-Mediterranean cultural exchange between Arabs and Europeans. Mucca Pazza plays yet again at 6:15 p.m., followed by singer Maria De Barros' (8 p.m.) pop-tinged, danceable blend of Latin and Caribbean music with that of her native Cape Verde. Closing out a day that seems to be all about wandering musical hybrids, Hungarian band Parno Graszt summons up unruly gypsy music with a large ensemble that includes three guitars, accordions, spoons, and lots of group vocals.
Updated 09/15/2009
