[NewMusicEvents] Mills Music Now: Bobi Cespedes concert - November 7

[Steed Cowart]

The Mills College Music Department and the Center for Contemporary Music present
Mills Music Now 2009-2010

BOBI CESPEDES
Staying connected, passing it on!

with
Marco Diaz, piano
Saul Sierra, bass
Julio Perez, bongo and timbales
Sandy Perez, conga and bata
Jose Roberto Hernandez, guitar

Singer, dancer, percussionist, theater director, storyteller, teacher: Gladys "Bobi" Cespedes is a force of nature. Singing in three languages—English Spanish, and Lucumi, the mother tongue of the Cuban descendants of the Yorubas of West Africa—she weaves the tales of the Orisha-deities of the Yoruba pantheon in fluid word and gesture, and illustrates the poetic, reverent vision of God and nature that is her ancestral heritage. As a priestess and Iyan Ifa in the Yoruba-Lucumi spiritual tradition, she carries, unbroken, the cord of spiritual tradition and inspiration which joins the past with the present. For over forty years, Bobi has been directly involved in the preservation and teaching of Afro-Cuban culture and traditions. She also makes and plays a variety of authentic folkloric percussion instruments, including the Chekere, a beautiful beaded calabash gourd.

For more details and sample audio and video recordings, please visit:
http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert5.php

Saturday, November 7,  8:00 pm
Littlefield Concert Hall
$15 general, $10 seniors and non-Mills students
Free to Mills students, faculty,staff, and alumnae/alumni
Tickets may be purchased at the door, or online at:
http://www.boxofficetickets.com (keywords: Mills College)
Wheelchair accessible

Mills College
Music Department
5000 MacArthur Blvd
Oakland, CA 94613
http://musicnow.mills.edu
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