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| A Tribute to Fred Ho:The Afro Asian Music Ensemble American Tour The late Fred Ho, founder and bandleader of the Afro Asian Music Ensemble, was a one-of-a-kind revolutionary Chinese American baritone saxophonist, composer, writer, producer, political activist and leader of several music ensembles. For three decades, he had innovated a new American Multicultural Music embedded in the swingingest, most soulful and transgressive forms of African American music with the influences of Asia and the Pacific Rim. As Larry Birnbaum writes in Down Beat "Fred Ho's style is a genre unto itself, a pioneering fusion of free-jazz and traditional Chinese music that manages to combine truculence and delicacy with such natural ease that it sounds positively organic." From April 19th-April 26th, the musicians of his band for over three decades, the Afro Asian Music Ensemble, will take Fred Ho's Afro Asian music and radical politics to venues in Western Massachusetts, New York City, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Vermont. Throughout their performances, they will be joined by special guests and longtime collaborators of Mr. Ho, including singer and theatre artist Youn Jung Kim; in Chicago, by dancer and professor Peggy Choy, and theatre artist Marina Celander; and in Hampshire College in Massachusetts, Magdalena Gómez, life-long cultural organizer; author of Shameless Woman (Red Sugarcane Press), poet, playwright and co-founder of Teatro V!da. The Afro Asian Music Ensemble includes royal hartigan on Drums, Wes Brown on Bass, Matan Rubinstein on piano, Masaru Koga on the Alto Saxophone, David Bindman on the Tenor Saxophone, and Ben Barson on Fred Ho's Baritone Saxophone. Performances: April 19th: Hampshire College Music and Dance Building | 7pm | Free 893 West St, Amherst, MA 01002 April 20th: Fred Ho Revival at the Commons | 7pm | $10 | 388 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY | http://ecosocialisthorizons.com/2015/03/fred-ho-revival/ April 22nd: An Die Musik | 7:30pm and 9pm sets | $18 advance / $21 door / $10 students 409 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD | (410) 385-2638 | www.andiemusiklive.com/ April 23rd: First Unitarian Church | 7:30pm | $16 advance / $20 door 605 Morewood Ave, Pittsburgh, PA | (412) 621-8008 | http://www.silkscreenfestival.org/news/afro-asian-music-ensemble-april-23rd/ April 24th: Association of Asian American Studies Conference | 3pm | Open to Conference Hilton Orrington Hotel, 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL | http://aaastudies.org/2015-aaas-conference/ April 24th: Brown, Yellow and Red: Honoring Fred Ho's Radical Internationalism | 7pm | $10 donation United Electrical Hall at 37 S Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL | discoverfredho.org April 26th: ArtisTree Community Arts Center and Gallery | 3pm | $20 | South Pomfret, Vermont | 802 457-3500 | http://www.artistreevt.org/ | write your comments about the article :: © 2015 Jazz News :: home page |