Beco Do Choro Trio

Brasilian music to warm up the CO winter (this is LOCAL warming, not global!)  We have two special evenings in store with a different configuration of Beco:

Joao Junqueira, Kailin Yong, Dexter Payne

The beauty of playing music with great artists is the blend, the give and take - and so with each variation in line-up there are new flavors, new colors and and textures coming from the kitchen. Joao, Kailin and I have performed together many times, but never in this configuration, and I am very excited to show you what we have started cooking!

If your wallet is slim, or you just can't break away from other plans Friday, then come down to the Blending Cellar tonight (Thurs, Jan 28) at 7pm and you can hear it all come together.

The real deal will take place at Dan & Diane's House Concert Friday, and I know there will be some folks who will have to hear both nights!

See you there!
Dexter

Here is Dan's invite:

Announcement From Hosts Dan and Diane:
Hello All! Please join us for a concert at our home.

Beco Do Choro (Trio) in Concert
Friday, January 29th, 2009 8PM
(Pot luck 6:30PM)
Come enjoy a fantastic concert with Beco do Choro!
Beco is a pre-eminent ensemble of musical artists in our region playing Brazilian music. Clarinetist/

percussionist Dexter Payne and violinist Kailin Yong join the incomparable guitarist, singer and Brazilian music scholar Joao Junqueira to create a synergistic presentation of music from the width and breadth of Brasil, including Choro, Baião, Maracatu, Frevo and other branches of the huge Brazilian musical tree.



Group: Beco do Choro Trio
Date: This Friday, January 29th, 2010
Place: 330 S. 39th St., Boulder [call or email for directions]
Time: 6-8pm pot luck (bring anything or nothing), 8-10pm or beyond, music
Suggested donation: $15 per person (100% goes to the musicians)

Members of the group:
Joao Junqueira - Brazilian Guitar, percussion, voice
Dexter Payne - Clarinet, percussion
Kailin Yong - Violin, percussion

We love this group, and we're sure you will, too!

Please rsvp by email (dhf2000@comcast.net) to reserve a place and to get directions.

Thanks for supporting Boulder's amazing, moving musicians.

Dan Fairchild And Diane Rabson

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Beco do Choro (Choro’s Alley) is Brazilian music at its best: instrumental virtuosity combined with traditional folk elements to generate fresh and exciting arrangements of old and contemporary songs of Brazil, including Antonio Carlos Jobim, Pixinguinha, Baden Powell, Jorge Benjor, and Caetano Veloso. Beco does not stop there - their original compositions are strikingly beautiful and also deeply rooted. The members of Beco combine instrumental virtuosity on violin, clarinet, saxophone, acoustic guitars, cavaquinho (Brazilian Ukulele) with an authentic infectious singing style and the irresistible rhythm of traditional batucada (percussion ensemble): surdo (the largest drum), pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine), tamborim (the smallest drum), ganzá (shaker), tan-tan (mid-size hand drum), reco-reco (scraper), and repinique (the lead drum in the batucada/samba-school style). Beco’s songs present a high level of poetry and vibrant Afro-Brazilian rhythms, portrayed by traditional percussion instruments, which energize listeners from a diversity of communities.

See http://www.myspace.com/becodochoro

We are very fortunate to this kind of music available to us in Boulder. I have been told that even in many Brazilian towns and cities you cannot easily find music of this quality and tradition.

If you have not been to a house concert here, they're a lot of fun and you are very welcome to join us. We start with a potluck - bring what you like or nothing at all. One of the lovely things about these concerts is meeting new people as well as seeing friends again.
We invite musicians who are local and that we love to listen to ourselves. Boulder's pool of musical talent is world class, but there is a lack of opportunity to hear them in intimate, acoustically friendly venues. We try to do our part to rectify this situation.

We are fascinated by musicians with something unique and challenging to present, often with musical influences outside the norm--whether geographically, culturally, or stylistically. We often hear from the musicians that this is an inspiring setting.

D&D

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Dan Fairchild / Diane Rabson
330 S. 39th St.
Boulder, CO 80305

dhf2000@comcast.net

303-886-9887 (Dan)
303-875-4102 (Diane)