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SUMMARY:Ethnic Heritage Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:Sun Feb 12 8:00 pm all ages welcome $16 advance/$20 door J
 ames Street Gastropub, 422 Foreland St, North Side 412-904-3335\nChica
 go/AACM progressive jazz legends for over 40 years! an evening with ET
 HNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE\n[Kahil El Zabar + Corey Wilkes + Alex Harding]
 \nTickets: Juke Records (Bloomfield), Acoustic Music Works (Squirrel H
 ill), Caliban Books (Oakland) and Dave's Music Mine (South Side). Onli
 ne at Brown Paper Tickets: http://ethnicheritageensemble.brownpapertic
 kets.com/\nKahil El’Zabar has been leading his Ethnic Heritage Ensem
 ble in various configurations for over 40 years and they are still in 
 forward motion! This year, his “EHE, Let It Be Free” 2017 tour inc
 ludes longtime member, Corey Wilkes, on trumpet and Alex Harding on ba
 ritone sax. These players are much more than accomplished jazz musicia
 ns. They are spiritually endowed, next level Sound Scientists, who hav
 e mastered rituals in music like no one else — that raise consciousn
 ess while enriching the mind, body and spirit.\nKahil El’Zabar is co
 nsidered by his peers to be one of the most prolific innovators of his
  generation. He has recorded more than sixty well-received projects, a
 nd won numerous international awards as a musician and composer. In 20
 14, Dr. El’Zabar was knighted by the Counsel General of France as a 
 “Chevalier Medal of Letters”. In 2012, President Barack Obama’s 
 administration awarded him the International Ambassador’s Award in t
 he Arts. In 2006, The Chicago Tribune named Kahil El’Zabar Chicagoan
  of the Year. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed El’Zabar to 
 the National Task Force on Arts in Education. Kahil has worked with su
 ch luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Stevie Wonder, 
 Pharoah Sanders, Neneh Cherry, Nina Simone, Ntozake Shange, David Murr
 ay, Nona Hendryx, and Lester Bowie. Dr. El’Zabar holds a PHD in Inte
 r-Disciplinary Arts and is Executive Creative Director at the new Chic
 ago Academy of Music. He has also taught at the University of Nebraska
  (Lincoln) and University of Illinois (Chicago), and served on several
  prestigious panels such as the NEA, the NPN and Lila Wallace Reader�
 �s Digest Fund. El’Zabar is a former chairman of the AACM (Associati
 on for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) and has scored feature f
 ilms: How You Like Me Now (Warner Brothers), Mo Money (Columbia Pictur
 es), and Love Jones (New Line Cinema). He has created and curated even
 ts as Artist in Residence in Bordeaux, France for the last 11 years.\n
 \nFor more information visit https://jazzburgher.ning.com/events/ethni
 c-heritage-ensemble-2
DTSTART:20170212T200000Z
DTEND:20170212T220000Z
CATEGORIES:concert
LOCATION:James Street Gastropub
WEBSITE:https://www.facebook.com/events/1794372730830247/
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CONTACT:412-904-3335
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