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Padare

Padare means "at the gathering" in Shona. It's an African gathering place where people share stories, music, and dance. In the House proudly presents an evening of music, dance, and storytelling from local African artists.

Jean Pierre Makosso: The Internationally Renowned African Actor, Story Teller and Dancer, Jean Pierre, was born in Pointe Noire, Congo Brazza-Ville where he taught school in French, but he found himself returning to his childhood love of dancing and story telling with which he has toured the world. Jean Pierre has performed all over Africa and as an actor and story teller in Switzerland with Company Amiel, in France with Theatre du Corps, in Canada and China. Jean Pierre has also performed at more than 1,000 schools worldwide as storyteller and dancer. He also works in schools, teaching drama and giving workshops in storytelling and dance.
Kocassalé Dioubaté: Kocassale Dioubate is a Guinean of the Mandingo tribe of West Africa. A descendant of the tribe's "Griots" - traditional storytellers, musicians and dancers - Koca has been dancing, playing and making music since he was old enough to walk. Career highlights to date include playing as Head Drummer for Ballet Kaloum Lolé in Guinea, soloist for Ballet Bougarabou in Senegal, recording with renowned drummer Moussa M’Boum in the Gambia and playing with Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour. He has also won awards from the Minister of Culture in Guinea for Dance in 2005 and was named Best Male Artist in 2001. Since arriving in Canada in May of 2005, he has joined three-time Juno winner Alpha Yaya Diallo’s band Bafing, playing shows all over Canada. He has performed solo at the Filberg Festival in Courtenay, the Vancouver Diversity Festival and Vancouver’s Afrikadey Festival. Under the name BéréSanké Percussion, he and his wife import and manufacture traditional West African percussion instruments and coordinate African drumming and dance workshops all over BC.
African Trio: African Trio is composed of Yoro Noukoussi, Aboubacar Camara, and Sekou “Dico” Sylla. They are accompanied by dancer Kesseke Yeo.  Kesseke Yeo was a national star and member of the National Ballet of Cote d'Ivoire. Since 2001, he has performed at various festivals with Masabo Culture Company and Kokoma Dance among others. Yoro Noukoussi was born into the family of the Chief of the Wama people and learned drumming and storytelling from his family as they traveled through North Benin. He has been performing in Vancouver for several years. Sekou "Dico" Sylla came straight from a small village in the Republic of Guinea to join Masabo on-stage in Canada. He is rightly recognized here as a djembe master, and in addition to Masabo he is an active teacher and performer with dance companies.  Aboubacar Camara is a performer native to Guinea, He spent 16 years performing and training with professional dance troupes, touring Africa and Europe. He came to Canada in 1995, performing with Vancouver-based African group, Bafing Productions. He is now leading his own group, Doundounba Music & Dance.
Folk for the Folk

Finish off the summer with an intimate evening of folk music in a living room.

Tarkin:Tarkin takes North American folk traditions from across the spectrum and blends them together to create a sound that's folk music with a West Coast flair. Sometimes irreverent, often thoughtful, always entertaining. With six voices and over a dozen different instruments at hand, Tarkin goes from old-time to country swing to ceilidh band as the instruments get passed around the circle. They've been described as "a bunch of multi-instrumentalist gypsies, roving over the mountains of the West Coast." Tarkin's original and traditional songs encompass a cross-genre acoustic folk style. Tarkin is based out of Vancouver, BC, and may be roving over a mountain near you.
 
 

 
Mark Berube: Vancouver based Berube is ... a total original in the tradition of exeptional Canadian singer songwriters" - Vancouver Province

At 9 years old, he was among a dancing crowd of 10,000 watching the late South African pop star Brenda Fassie at Somhlolo Soccer Stadium, Swaziland, Africa. With apartheid still strong next door in South Africa, this concert reverberated on many levels: musically, socially, and politically. Mix this life-defining experience with Manitoban-Quebecois roots, a stylistically diverse musical repertoire, the piano, accordion, guitar and a voice that disarms his audiences, and you have the multi-faceted sound of Mark Berube.
The Voices of Flamenco

Traditional flamenco takes the stage side by side with amazing blends of flamenco and world music. The magic and power of music and dance come together in this captivating show to show just how much flamenco has influenced musicians of all kind.

Andrew Klukas: Andrew studies at Al Mozaico Flamenco Dance Academy and has also studied in Seville and Jerez de la Frontera with Javier Latorre, Raphael Campallo, Antonio El Pipa and, most recently, Farruquito.   Andrew has performed at various events and festivals in the lower Mainland and joined Mozaico Flamenco Dance Theatre in its 2004 production of Espiritu Sin Nombre.He also studies flamenco percussion (cajon) to support his fellow dancers musically and has studied with Alejandro Velasco "El Chapin" and Timo Lozano.  In 2007, Andrew plans to travel to Spain to study with Domingo Ortega.   His goal for 2007 is to devote more of his energy to sharing this unique form of expression. 
Michelle Harding: Michelle Harding has studied flamenco in Vancouver and also in Spain, where she has attended workshops with Mercedez Ruiz, Maria Jose Franco, Ana Maria Lopez. She says, “I am most inspired by the paradox that is at the heart of flamenco: it is flamboyant yet introspective, joyous and sorrowful, often beautiful and sometimes ugly”. She is a company dancer with the Al Mozaico Flamenco Dance Theatre and in addition to performing at festivals and special events throughout the year, she performs regularly at the Kino Café in Vancouver.

 
Andrea Williams
Tambura Rasa: Tambura Rasa is a local energetic world-fusion ensemble that delivers a unique blend of Afro-Latin, Flamenco, Balkan, Middle Eastern, Gypsy jazz, and more.
Silk Road Music Duo: Silk Road Duo is a new music performance that introduces audiences to different cultures through the experiences, discoveries, and travels of Qiu Xia He with her Pipa, and multi-instrumentalist Andre Thibault. The pipa, a Chinese lute with a wide range of expression, is the focal point. This husband and wife team is well equipped for this cultural mission. Both have lived passionately as professional musicians. Their common bond and love of music have taken them on tours all over the world, including the Montreal Jazz Festival, a BBC recital in England, the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, hundreds of schools in North America, UBC and SFU in Vancouver, and countless community concert series. In 2004, they were featured with the Vancouver Symphony at the Orpheum to welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Cabaret L'amour Fou

Prepare for a night of magic. This troupe of performers will give you an evening you will never forget. A little bit of music, a little bit of theatre, a little bit of dark, a little bit of light... It's all mysterious and wonderful, spicy and exciting.

Nucleus engages circus arts, physical theatre, movement, costumes, props, and masks, to bring forth a dream-like world that is playfully passionate and passsionately playful; humorously macabre, eloquently tragic, and amorously raw.. nucleus offers a spectale to be taken at face value and with a masked face, A dramatic and inspired repesentation of the human experience...

We invite you in love and illusionment...

www.thenucleus.ca
Rupinder: Rupinder’s vision is ignited by an interdisciplinary passion for the arts. The body is the nexus of creation, Rup’s performance art engages and exposes the body as the ultimate canvas. Strength and self empowerment inspire all his work, he brings the spirit of fire to the urban artscape. As a multi-instrumentalist, producer, dancer, choreographer and poet, Rupinder is commited to building healthy, passionate communities
Alison: Sound creates her reality before material or physical manifestations. It inspires all else; seeps through to the unconscious & beyond and changes everything. Struggle, surrender and aspiration are inspiration for the fabric she sculpts around the moving language of the body. An interdisciplinary artist with a unique background in classical, contemporary and ethnocultural music,
ritual theatre, dance and costume, Alison creates space in which to harness personal strength through discipline, patience, exertion and creation. In quest of a path to experiential freedom.
Candice: Design dreamer - imaginator - rhythm rider - clarinet cryer- tap dancer - romancer - soul singer - fire flinger -Working with a wide variety of skills, Candicemoves through life creating puppets, puppet shows, costumes, fire dance productions, cabaret style song and dance numbers, and musical ensembles. Inspired by rhythm and vibration, Candice continues to deeply explore performance and art through character and emotion.
Dee: Dee is an interdisciplinary artist based out of the Vancouver area. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the west coast in1997. He is active in the art scene as a musician, composer, dj, photographer, painter, designer,dancer, choreographer and promoter. He aspires to interweave all
these mediums of expression into one graceful tapestry. Dee draws inspiration from the world of storytelling and myth. Very interested in the timeless tales of our human drama, he seeks to eloquently portray the hope and tragedy of the experience.

C’est l’amour fou!
Nayana: Nayana is a thespian, a performer of many an ilk. Beginning in the traditions of scripted theatre, and slowly evolving to the wild worlds of circus and improv, she has done extensive work in contact dance, clown,
action theatre, and mask, both making and wearing. Some of her most notable work has been her solo mask performances at cabarets hosted by the hawah collective of which she is a founding member. Costumer, designer, and vocalist, a teacher of both contact improv and yoga, she loves to laugh, cry and explore the balance between
expression and introspection.
Sara: Sara Kendall is a creator and learner who lives{usually} in Vancouver BC, Canada. Her background and practice in circus and musical performance have carried into her work as a facilitator of arts-based activism with youth and community groups. To her current creative projects, Sara brings her passions and skills in spoken word, mouth percussion, juggling, and acrobalance - all in the spirit of discovering meaningful shared experience through performance.
Xaaq: clink, clack, the carnival of life marches, grinds and shines on as a brilliant and entropic procession. By the light of Xaaq's welding torch it might just look a little different when it goes back together. As a steel sculptor his practice focuses on re-imagining found objects, taking pieces to create something whole and new. He is a multi-discplinary artist who brings his fire to not only metal but to life and the stage as a builder, collaborator, enabler, theatrical performer, dancer, costume maker, he is a creator of contraptions, and a music maker. Life is an act of love, c'est l'amour fou!
Tarran: Tarran is primarily a musical soloist, but also collaborator and interactor. He plays instruments from around the world and finds a home in a banjo tuned as an Arabian fiddle. Tarran has a strong sense for accompanying dancers, as he himself is one and finds nothing more agreeable than the interplay between the movement and the sound. He is theatric in his style of presence whether on or off stage. This is only amplified by the notion of being
witnessed. Tarran’s movement comes from the inside and explodes when it reaches the skin. He is a master of the moment, and will go to all ends to bring us all there with him.
Latin Inferno

Where does one dream to go during the dreary month of December? Why Central and South America of course! Come join us for an exciting evening of Peruvian, Mexican, and Cuban music in the warmth of a living room!

El Mariachi Romántico: El Mariachi Romántico was founded to maintain and promote the beauty of Mexico through traditional and uplifting music. El Mariachi Romántico International is a multicultural band which delivers the passion, love and respect we feel for Mexico.
La Candela:La Candela is a perfect name for this band. In English, candela literally means fire. In Cuba though, candela is used to describe a state of euphoric disbelief or to describe other “hot” situations. When people hear La Candela play live, they often sporadically yell “ candelaaaaaa!!!” which is le mot juste and also appreciated by the band. La Candela was formed in 2003 by bassist Mark Beaty who had recently returned to his native Vancouver after living and studying in Cuba for a year. It was at the National Arts Institute in Havana where he met pianist Cary Garcia. Shortly after her arrival in Canada, Cary was introduced to el gran trompetista Shaun Brodie and two of Vancouver's finest percussionists -Danny Tones and Leo Coodin- and it was only a matter of time before the stars aligned. In less than two years the band went from being a local gigging quintet to an international touring ensemble with a full length CD to their credit. Vocalist David Lopez and legendary Cuban percussionist Gilberto Moreaux ( La Charanga Habanera) now join them as they promote their new album Alegria though the United States and Canada.  La Candela is excited to have local latin percussion specialist Paul Bray join them on congas. Keep an eye on this band as they take on Europe and eventually Asia –they're movin' fast!
Matices: Grupo Matices brings you to Peru with its enchanting music from the Coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazonian Jungle. This group plays a variety of styles including festive Peruvian Valses and Polkas,  rich Andean music,  exotic Amazonian Cumbias and unique Afro-Peruvian rhythms including Festejos, Alcatras and Landos. Of the collection of Peruvian instruments, Grupo Matices focuses on guitar, cajon, quena, sampona, charango, bombo, quijada, cajita, campana, huiro...