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Mary-Elaine Jenkins + Maitri + Dilemastronauta @ The Way Station
Live Music: January 13, 2015, 8pm-12am, The Way Station, 683 Washington Ave, BK, http://waystationbk.blogspot.com/ $5 suggested donation
8pm- Mary-Elaine Jenkins
Genre: Blues/Roots/Rock/Americana
For fans of: The Delta Blues, Lucinda Williams, Cat Power, Ryan Adams
Mary-Elaine Jenkins is a New York-based blueswoman. A South Carolina native and lifelong musician, she began performing live when she moved to Washington, DC for college. She came to New York by way of Madrid, where she spent two years teaching English, roaming around, and playing a whole lot of music. Her sound is a delicious and ever-evolving mix of blues, Americana roots, soul, and rock ‘n roll, specializing in the sultry/spooky. This ain’t your mama’s singer/songwriter music.
https://twitter.com/MizMEJenkins
https://soundcloud.com/mary-elaine-jenkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfLgWRMYEqw
https://www.facebook.com/mejplays
9pm- Maitri
Genre: Indie R&B
For Fans of: Erykah Badu, Bilal, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Cody Chestnut
Maitri was formed to embrace both the hardship and ecstasy of life through song.
“As a child, Hoffmann borrowed Sam Cooke’s album Live at the Harlem Square Club (1963) from his local Manitowoc library in Wisconsin and became obsessed with Cooke’s music. From Billie Holiday, Davis learned about ‘musical expression of hardship and beauty in general.’” - The Greenpointers (2015)
http://maitrimusic.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40DnosUq92M
10pm- Dilemastronauta
Genre: Experimental Latin Soul
For fans of: Susana Baca, Roy Ayers, John Coltrane.
“The astronaut is one of the few individuals who gets an opportunity to see the earth as a whole from above and by doing that a new sense of being part of a big picture is brought upon him”. This new vision is what has inspired Andres Jimenez who is a drummer, percussionist, arranger, song writer and composer from Bogota Colombia and who is based in New York city since 2000: “Dilemastronauta is my attempt to depict the Astronaut’s dilemma which is -I am from here but also from there, I am from everywhere… it is the immigrants dilemma here on earth, I try to translate this feeling through sounds and visual art.
According to www.bodymusicnyc.com: “ Dilemastronauta brings jazz, rhythm, and intense percussion together for a beautiful and unique sound.”
www.dilemastronauta.com
