Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-uba at Jazz Libre! at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center

Michele Rosewoman is a recipient of the prestigious Southarts Jazz Road Creative Residency grant for a multi-faceted, multi-media and collaborative project that gives broader space & voice to life-long inspirations & traditions that have shaped and nurtured her.

In collaboration with both Arts for Art and HotHouse Global, Ms. Rosewoman will curate a program for live performance, filming and international broadcast entitled:

“A Function at the Junction: Ancestral Bridge, Musical Streams”.
“Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales”
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Michele Rosewoman is a recipient of the prestigious Southarts Jazz Road Creative Residency grant for a multi-faceted, multi-media and collaborative project that gives broader space & voice to life-long inspirations & traditions that have shaped and nurtured her.

In collaboration with both Arts for Art and HotHouse Global, Ms. Rosewoman will curate a program for live performance, filming and international broadcast entitled:

“A Function at the Junction: Ancestral Bridge, Musical Streams”.
“Una Función en el Cruce: Puente Ancestral, Corrientes Musicales”

Featuring Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba, to be joined by Francisco Mora Catlett's Afro Horn and Roman Diaz's Rumba Ensemble, Arts for Art will co-present an evening of live performance on November 11, 2021 at the Clemente Soto Velez Center, Flamboyan Theater NYC, to be filmed for subsequent broadcast through the HotHouseGlobal platforms and via National Cuban TV.

An NEA performance grant facilitated the 1983 debut of "New Yor-Uba: A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America” featuring master foklorist Orlando 'Puntilla' Rios at NYC's Public Theater. For 38 years, New Yor-Uba has been a forum for collaboration between masters from the worlds of contemporary jazz & Cuban folkloric music. The concept and sound remain uniquely vital as pianist and composer Rosewoman continues to enhance the ensemble's repertoire with new music and personnel, further inspiring her to reflect upon and explore the organic links between these deep musical traditions. Of her New Yor-Uba ensemble, Ms. Rosewoman says "We pay homage to the journey of centuries-old Yoruba traditions from Nigeria through Cuba to present-day New York, reflecting its contemporary manifestations."

Following their 2013 double disc release which celebrated 30 years and garnered the #1 NPR Latin Jazz Recording of the Year award, "Hallowed" (11/19 release) is a ground-breaking project that received stellar reviews in JazzTimes, JazzIz, Downbeat and was NPR's #3 Latin Jazz Recording of the Year—
a true continuation of Rosewoman’s in-depth exploration of sacred Afro- Cuban folkloric music.
New Yor-Uba repertoire for Nov 11 will include music from both recordings.

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