10/30 - Saturday :: Edmar Castaneda Solo

Web Site: Edmar Castaneda

Edmar Castaneda was born in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. Since his move to the United States in 1994, Edmar has quite literally taken New York and the world stage by storm with the sheer force of his virtuosic command of the harp—revolutionizing the way audiences and critics alike consider an instrument commonly relegated to the “unusual category”. A master at realizing beautiful complexities of time, while skillfully drawing out lush colors and dynamic spirit, Edmar has been characterized as “almost a world unto himself” (The New York Times). The legendary Paquito D’Rivera, Edmar’s frequent collaborator, has remarked: Edmar is…an enormous talent, he has the versatility and the enchanting charisma of a musician who has taken his harp out of the shadow to become one of the most original musicians from the Big Apple.

Szélrózsa Website

Szélrózsa (sail-rose-zha) is Hungarian for "Wind Rose", the graphic that shows directions on maps. From here, the direction is East. The band plays a wide variety of music from all over the region, ranging from delicate Hungarian folk songs to exuberant Gypsy Romanian and Klezmer tunes. Not to mention Israeli, Turkish, Serbian and Macedonian. All of these musics have a lot in common once you get past the labels. We come to this band from different directions but take great joy in playing and sharing this music.

Szélrózsa features: Mirko Gabler (guitar, vocal, accordion), Katalin Pazmandi (vocal, violin, recorder),Harry Sweet (violin, mandolin), Dale DeMarco (Clarinet), and David Winograd (upright bass, tuba)