World Music Sampler
Celebrating the Spirit of Folkways Records
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 8:00
Covocation Hall, University of Alberta Campus

Pre-Concert Reception and Instrument Show and Tell
Hosted by the African Students' Union and the Southeast Asian Students' Association
7:00 in the Arts Student Lounge, next to Convocation Hall in the Arts Building

Admission Free. A representative from the Canadian Red Cross will be accepting donations for earthquake relief in Pakistan.

Distinguished Visitor Dr. Simha Arom
Presents lectures on African Music:

Time organization in African music
Friday, October 21, 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Business 1-10, University of Alberta campus

Language and music in fusion: drum language of the Banda-Linda (Central African Republic)
Saturday, October 22, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Business 1-10, University of Alberta campus

Admission is free for both lectures and open to the public.

Professor Simha Arom, a distinguished scholar of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and specialist on the music and cultures of sub-Saharan Africa, will visit the University of Alberta on October 21 and 22, 2005 as part of a North American speaking tour.

Professor Arom is most widely known for a prize-winning series of recordings of the musics of the Aka pygmies and other Central African groups made from the 1960s to the 1980s, which have exerted a lasting influence on musicians as diverse and prominent as Madonna, jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, and contemporary composers Gyorgy Ligeti and Steve Reich.

Mr. Arom's landmark book African Polyphony and Polyrhythm, published in French (1986) and English (1991), is an undisputed classic in the field of musical ethnography, and was awarded the prestigious ASCAP Deems Taylor Award in 1992. Arom received the Silver Medal of the C.N.R.S. in 1984 for his development of methods of analysis of traditional, unwritten polyphonic music. With his book, and in general as a researcher, thinker and writer about music, Mr. Arom's work has touched generations of students.

Professor Arom's two lectures will be illustrated by multimedia examples.
Following each lecture, there will be time for questions and discussion.

Daniel Vigletti in Concert
Sponsored by Por el Amor a la Musica Latina and folkwaysAlive!
October 2, 2005, 6:30 pm
Muttart Hall, Alberta College
10050 MacDonald Drive

Admission: $15. Tickets available from Tix on the Square.

Tibetan Singing Bowls
Presented by Jon Or, Shaman/Healer
September 23, 2005, 7:00-9:00 pm
Studio 27, Fine Arts Building
U of A Campus

Admission: $20 ($15 for students) at the door, register to reserve your seat on the folkwaysAlive! website; seating is limited. Advance tickets may be reserved by calling  780.461.3504 or e-mail festivalgypsies@shaw.ca

Ragas and More: Lecture demonstration by sarod play Ranajit Sengupta
Presented by the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology and the Ragamala Society
September 20, 2005, 7:00 pm
Studio 27, Fine Arts Building
U of A Campus

Admission: Free for students, a small contribution may be requested of non-students.

Carribean Drumming Workshop
Sponsored by Cariwest, Caribbean Arts Festival and folkwaysAlive!
September 18, 2005, 7:30-10:00 pm
Studio 27, Fine Arts Building
U of A Campus

Admission: $5 at the door. Please register to reserve your seat on the folkwaysAlive! website.