HuDost Debut NASHVILLE Performance
September 26th Ticket Pre-SALE
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ALTERNATIVE WORLD ENSEMBLE HuDost FROM MONTREAL AND
NEW YORK DEBUT NASHVILLE PERFORMANCE
WITH EVENING OF EXPERIMENTAL WORLD ROCK ‘COUNTRY AND EASTERN’ FUSION
With Nashville’s own Bodhicitta Bellydance ensemble
and Sacred Temple Dance by Marguerite Barnett.
On Friday, September 26th, 2008 NY/Montreal based Alternative World Rock ‘Country and Eastern’ fusion ensemble HuDost come to Nashville for the first time to play Yoga Source for an eclectic evening of world music and dance.
Core members Moksha Sommer (voice, harmonium) and former Gainesville musician from the 80s and 90s, Jemal Wade Hines (voice, guitars, bazouki, bendir) along Dan Walters (Bass), Julian Douglas (Percussion), Michael Rutherford (Percussion) and temple dancer Marguerite Barnett will form HuDost, an ‘Alternative-World Rock, Country and Eastern fusion’ ensemble who mix a rich and eclectic blend of traditional Sufi music, Bulgarian and Balkan adaptations, Farsi, Turkish and Arabic pieces with elements of Folk, Pop, Rock and Bluegrass. HuDost weaves “mesmerizing vocals and instrumental work to create music with a unique and stirring vocabulary”.
The group will be performing music from all three of their critically acclaimed albums as well as previewing new tracks from their soon to be released record with grammy award winning producer Malcolm Burn. (Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Peter Gabriel)
HuDost has performed at Alex Grey’s CoSM in NYC, the Salvador Dali Museum, Shakori Grassroots Festival, Folk Alliance, Omega Institute, and they have headlined for Chapel Hill’s Rumi Festival. They have also opened for the California Guitar Trio and worked with Neko Case and Mercan Dede. HuDost recently performed for a Deepak Chopra conference at Kripalu Center in the Berkshires. They have also toured Turkey, where they performed with Istanbul based dancers and musicians, and parts of Europe including Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
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Nashville’s own bellydance troupe ‘Bodhicitta’ will be doing an opening set as well as joining HuDost for a few songs.
Bodhicitta BellyDance, a professional performing troupe since January 2007 out of Nashville, TN has been nominated 'Best Interpretive Artist' as well as traveled and performed internationally most notably with events such as Spirit of the Tribes, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl and Bergenfest, Bergen, Norway. Together with her troupe mates, founder Gwyn Lister offers the world of Belly Dance a unique style rooted mostly in 'Tribal' philosophies, rich with varying interpretations as each member of the troupe brings forth her own history and passion for dance. Bodhicitta means 'awakened heart' and it is with this open heart and a careful need to be respectful of tradition and those who came before them that Bodhicitta moves forward equally celebrating the evolution of Belly Dance today.
You can find Bodhicitta at myspace.com/bodhicittagwyn
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Friday, September 26th, 8:00 pm at YOGA SOURCE
209 10th Ave. S, Ste 126, Nashville, TN 37203
Local contact: (615)254-9642 info@yogasource.com
$15, ($12 Advance or with student ID at the door)
ADVANCED TICKETS THROUGH www.hudost.com or www.yogasource.info
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In a recent review of Seedling CHRONOGRAM Magazine said “HuDost has a folk quality yet is quite post-modern; the band offers new takes on ancient words and melodies, cross-cultural hybrid transcendental chill-out music with an edge. (The album will even be agreeable to those whose spiritual music is punk.)… This is not fluffy new-age music—it's serious, complex fare with no aversion to addressing agony. Sommer's vocal execution is precisely orchestrated, her voice-opening, hollow-toned vortexes piercing through the tough spots. This album is a journey of music and spirit.”
CDBaby says about HuDost’s debut CD In an Eastern Rose Garden: “These beautiful atmospheric, warm and resonant songs weave the evocative… With stylistic colors of folk, new age and pop presented with the colorful harmonic vocabulary of the East, this gentle album delicately pairs the two art forms with great success.”
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HuDost Contact:
Jemal Wade Hines
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