Please RSVP to: https://www.facebook.com/events/450654288342088 It was so great to have Oneko Arika in the room last Thursday at AFRO FUNKE' at Zanzibar with Leanna Rachel - surprise guest on vocals & the eminent Fuzzbee Morse on flute plus our amazing resident sound of Glenn Red and Jeremy Sole - with host Rocky Dawuni. What a BEAUTIFUL "family night" it was...wow!! Nuff gratitude to everyone! THIS THURSDAY - get ready for the brand new Brazilian Forro band Môfo straight out of the City of Angels from our friends at Samba Society for their first time LIVE at AFRO FUNKE'!!
AFRO FUNKÉ:
Weekly Soul Invocation
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Afrobeat, Brazilian, Dub, Reggae, Cumbia,
Samba Disco, Batucada, Afro-Latin House,
Indian Beats, Makossa & other deep-rooted
Soul music from around the world.
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Thursday, May 16th, 2013
AFRO FUNKE' LIVE PRESENTS
Môfo
Môfo is LA's newest forró band, featuring members of Samba Society, playing partner-swinging, accordion-driven, hip-grinding tunes inspired by the traditions of northeast Brazil. The group plays in the traditional "pé de serra" style of forró, which features the accordion, guitar, zabumba, triangle, agogô (coco), and voice. Forró encompasses various styles of music and dance including côco, baião, xaxado, and xote originating in the northeast of Brazil but having achieved widespread popularity throughout the country and abroad.
MUSICIANS:
Simon (Nego Simão) Carroll / zabumba
Gee Rabe (LA's Accordion Diva) / accordion
Fabiano do Nascimento / 7-string guitar
Kana Shimanuki / voice / reco-reco
Beto Gonzalez / voice / triângulo
Emina Shimanuki / voice / coco
https://www.facebook.com/mofoforro
resident deejay / co:founder:
JEREMY SOLE
(KCRW/theLIFT/Musaics)
http://www.kcrw.com/jeremysole
http://www.facebook.com/jeremysolefamily
http://www.twitter.com/jeremysole
http://www.soundcloud.com/jeremysole
resident deejay:
GLENN RED
(Afro Funke' / Eclectica)
http://www.facebook.com/glenn.red
host / co:founder:
ROCKY DAWUNI
Rocky Dawuni's current album "Hymns for the Rebel Soul" is available on ITunes worldwide!! Plus back catalog too! New EP coming in 2013!
http://itunes.apple.com/album/hymns-for-the-rebel-soul/id350260482
http://www.twitter.com/rockydawuni
http://www.facebook.com/rockydawuni
co:founder, booker, photographer, producer:
CARY SULLIVAN
http://www.facebook.com/afrofunke
http://www.myspace.com/carysullivan
*Plus special guest deejays & players of instruments!*
*Drink specials every Thursday!*
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Afro Funké
Thursdays at Zanzibar
1301 5th St. Santa Monica, CA 90401
310.451.2221 / 21+ (EVERYONE Must have ID)
9p-2a / $10
http://www.myspace.com/afrofunke
http://www.twitter.com/afrofunke
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Afro Funké info: Cary Sullivan | afrofunke@yahoo.com
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**Check out the exclusive Afro Funke' T-Shirts @ the club every week. Plus hand made hats, jewelry, belts & more provided by Big Al Hats, Native Sol & other amazing crafts people!!**
http://www.etsy.com/shop/bigalhats
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with a little help from our friends:
http://www.immigrantmagazine.com/
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"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same." CARLOS CASTENADA
310.451.2221