Anyone looking for something unusual in North Jersey this Saturday night at 8 p.m. can come see me play on some South African tunes with this group from South Africa:
http://www.thulasizwe.com/Benefit.html
It’s at Shea Center at William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, which you can find here: http://www.wpunj.edu/
It’s a rare chance to see me attired in a colorful native daishiki. In public.
I rehearsed a bit with this group today – they are mind-blowing. It’s Lion King but not Broadway, the real guts of the music in real Zulu, 11 singers/dancers/drummers. . . along with me and some other Americans playing variations as part of some cultural interchange thing that’s a benefit for a Nelson Mandela orphanage of some kind – the band includes a great Irish accordionist/fiddler Tom Dunne, concertina player Doug Barr and the fellow who made my Irish flute 30 years ago, Michael Copeland. . . you may be familiar with him, and he’s a tasty whistle player as well. And a clarinetist/whistle player named Andrew Lamy heads it up. . . world renowned bird song recordist and arranger.. . gonna be a very musically off-road evening.
I suspect some clips will find their way to Youtube by next week, so check it out if you can’t come in person.
Ngiyabonga!
L.E. McCullough
