SPECIAL SPONTANEOUS PERFORMANCE

SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2009 @ 7pm

until approximately 9pm??

THE LUGGAGE STORE IS PROUD TO WELCOME

ANTHONY CEDRAS + AJAYI JACKSON + guests

an evening of music...perhaps some other things....

We hope you will join us at the luggage store to welcome in the year, to pay tribute to Miriam Makeba and Freddie Hubbard with a rather  spontaneous performance featuring  Anthony ("Tony") Cedras who plays with Henry Threadgill and is a member of the Paul Simon Band; and  Ajayi Jackson,  Bay Area based multi-instrumental musician.

Please feel free to bring your instrument, etc. ,there will be a "space" for that...

ANTHONY CEDRAS

Anthony Cedras  synthesizes cultural traditions and musical genres through his approach to accordion, harmonium, trumpet, keyboard and guitar. Born in Cape Town, South Africa and based in New York, Cedras has toured and recorded throughout the world as a longstanding member of Paul Simon’s band, as well as with Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Ziggy Marley, Henry Threadgill, Milton Nascimento, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cassandra Wilson, Gigi and Jonathan Butler.

Before joining Paul Simon during his Graceland tour, Cedras travelled throughout the world performing as an anti-Apartheid cultural ambassador for "Nelson Mandela's People" in the Amandla cultural ensemble in exile. Cedras has always understood and deployed the power of music to unite and rally people to dance, to feel something deeply, and to take action.


AJAYI JACKSON

Ajayi Jackson is a multi-instrumentalist and tours internationally, working as a bassoonist, African percussionist, trap drummer, pianist, and composer.

Jackson began his international career in Europe at the age of twelve as a classical bassoonist and shortly there after as a pianist in Japan, performing original compositions. He has worked with some of the most talented musicians of our time such as Prince Lashaw, Omar Sosa, and John Santos, to name just a few. He has also worked with esteemed dance companies such as Dimensions Dance Ensemble (Zimbabwe  Tour 2001 / CubaTour 2003), Ashe Dance Collective (N.Y.C. Suga Cula Wata), and Traci Bartlow and Dancers (Bay Area HipHop Theatre Festival 2005 / Malcolm X Jazz Festival 2004/5) and Amara Tabor’s Deep Water Dance Collective