HuDost SARASOTA TICKET PRE-SALE
SEPTEMBER 18th
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ALTERNATIVE WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE HuDost
RETURN TO SARASOTA FOR EVENING AT RISING TIDE
Local Trio ‘Elixir Sonic’ Open
On Thursday, September 18th, 2008 NY/Montreal basedalternative world rock fusion ensemble
HuDost return to Sarasota for an eclectic evening of music and dance.
Core members Moksha Sommer (voice, harmonium), JemalWade Hines (voice, guitars, bazouki, bendir) along Dan Walters (Bass), George Tortorelli (Flutes), Julian Douglas (Percussion), Michael Rutherford (Percussion) and 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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Elixir Sonic, composed of Keith Coker on flutes, Norman Schindowski on didgeridoo, and Pamela Fetterman on world percussion, creates ambient, transcendental musical textures that impart an atmosphere of deep peace and stillness with intense vitality. The group is improvisational, musically composing in the moment by disintegrating into each other’s presence and feeling the reality of the greater heart pulsing through humanity.
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Thursday, September 18th at RISING TIDE
5102 Swift Road, Sarasota, FL 34231
Performance begins 7:30 PM
Cost : $15 ($10 Students)
www.risingtideinternational.org
info@risingtideinternational.org
941-923-7834
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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: “These beautiful atmospheric, warm and resonant songs weave the evocative… With stylistic colors of folk 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:
Elixir Sonic Contact: www.myspace.com/elixirsonic
