Ori-Gen Festival at Drom
September 9th -10th
Two Nights of Music from The Afro Pan-Latin Diaspora: Roots, Improvisational Music and Beyond
For the past year, the Ori-Gen Collective — a diverse, New York-based group of Latino music makers including multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winners — has been developing platforms to explore and present new combinations of Latin American roots music, jazz, and technology in contemporary pan-Latin music.
This September, the Ori-Gen Collective will celebrate this vision with two nights of music from some of the most innovative and forward thinking artists from the Afro Pan-Latin Diaspora. The Festival takes place at Drom [85 Avenue A, NYC] on September 9th - 10th....
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Ori-Gen Festival at Drom
September 9th -10th
Two Nights of Music from The Afro Pan-Latin Diaspora: Roots, Improvisational Music and Beyond
For the past year, the Ori-Gen Collective — a diverse, New York-based group of Latino music makers including multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winners — has been developing platforms to explore and present new combinations of Latin American roots music, jazz, and technology in contemporary pan-Latin music.
This September, the Ori-Gen Collective will celebrate this vision with two nights of music from some of the most innovative and forward thinking artists from the Afro Pan-Latin Diaspora. The Festival takes place at Drom [85 Avenue A, NYC] on September 9th - 10th.
Night One features a Brazilian percussion and vocals duo with Rogerio and Anne Boccato, Argentine bassist Pablo Aslan & Piazzollazo's tribute to Astor Piazzolla, the dreamy, tropical soul of Miami/Venezuelan project Bacalao Men, and Argentine singer Sofia Rei brings her acclaimed mix of folklore and futurism to a duo with multi-instrumentalist JC Maillard.
Night Two features Argentinian-NYC experimental duo Chuño; Latin GRAMMY Award winning percussionist, composer, and arranger Samuel Torres collaborating with pioneering Afro-Peruvian jazz guitar fusionist Eric Kurimski; celebrated singer, ethnographer and musical polyglot Kavita Shah with Cape Verdean guest singer Fantcha; and GRAMMY-award winning vocalist/violinist from NYC's own Flor de Toloache, Mireya Ramos.
Advance Tickets Available at Drom:
https://dromnyc.com/#/events
$20 presale, $25 at door
Doors: 6:15PM
September 9th:
7:00 pm Rogerio and Anne Boccato
7:30 pm Sofia Rei and JC Maillard
8:00 pm Pablo Aslan & Piazzollazo
9:00 pm Bacalao Men
September 10th:
7:00 pm Duo Chuño
7:30 pm Samuel Torres Duet with Eric Kurimski
8:00 pm Kavita Shah
9:00 pm Mireya Ramos
About The Ori-Gen Collective:
For the past year, the Ori-Gen Collective, a diverse, New York-based group of Latino music makers including multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winners, has been developing platforms to explore and present new combinations of Latin American roots music, jazz, and technology in contemporary pan-Latin music.
But just as plans were taking form, the COVID-19 pandemic imposed its own priorities and set its own schedule. The Collective then pivoted, and launched a series of free, weekly online concerts and a weekly Ori-Gen Podcast
“This is our response to this crisis. Each one of us tries to do our part, to contribute something positive, and music is what we know and what we do,” said singer and songwriter Sofia Rei, a founding member of the Collective and part of the curatorial committee. “As a collective, we came together to play a greater role in how our music is presented. We were thinking of changing the future. But now we feel we need to work on the present. That’s what the urgency of the moment requires. We all have this need for community, to feel a sense of belonging, and music helps create that — and we need it now.”
"The Ori-Gen Collective is aspiring to create a space were traditions, diversity, technology and creativity intersect in order to present a global vision of what artists from our diaspora can bring to audiences in NYC and beyond," adds Latin Grammy nominated producer and guitarist Juancho Herrera.
The Ori-Gen Collective includes bassist Pablo Aslan; percussionist Rogerio Bocatto; singer Kavita Shah; vocalist and guitarist Juancho Herrera; and singer Sofia Rei. Founding members include pianist Arturo O’Farrill;, singer Lara Bello; bassist Alexis Cuadrado; arts writer and musician Fernando González; drummer Antonio Sánchez, percussionist Samuel Torres; trombonist Papo Vázquez and saxophonist Miguel Zenón.
Most of the founding members of the Ori-Gen Collective came to the United States following the sound and promises of jazz. Educated in classrooms, on stages, and recording studios, they then applied those experiences to reinterpret and reimagine their home traditions.
It’s work that, in its wide variety of approaches and styles, challenges — at times radically — postcard notions of Latin music.
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