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Tuesday, February 22nd
9 pm to 11 pm @
NUBLU
62 Avenue C @ 4th St
NYC 10009
www.nublu.net
$10
This is an uber-cool joint!
And if you have any friends in ATL, Georgia, February 26th is the first show of a national traveling masquerade party that I am part of called Party Érotique. I will be introducing a totally different sound. more info to come!
Taking its name from a luscious fruit in Cuba also known as "mamey","ZapOte" is an original Funk Latin Afro-Beat band lead by Dawn Drake, the Slovenian-American female bassist/conguera/singer/songwriter and composer. Her poetic lyrics spread messages of universal consciousness, delivered with heartfelt vocals, and are joined with the irresistible grooves of Latin percussion, funky bass, swinging horn lines and virtuosic improvisation.
An active musician in New York City's African, Brazilian and Latin
music scene, Dawn Drake started her career as an electric bassplayer and percussionist. Now she is known first and foremost as a singer-songwriter, composer and bandleader.
As a Slovenian-American, Dawn's love of a variety of music first came from home. Later, she began traveling and studying world music at the University of Ghana, West Africa where she lived for a year. Upon moving to New York City, she started to play bass and percussion with groups which have included Obini Ashe; Beat the Donkey, Samba New York, The Femm Nameless, Jojo Kuo, Manmzel, Paprika, Azouhouni Adu, Nepo Soteri and others.
Dawn studied and played congas and batá in Cuba, and samba percussion in Brazil, where she played in Rio de Janiero's Carnaval. She has shared the stage with Me'shell N'degeocello, Cyro Baptista, Trey Anastasio, Mo'Guajiro, Los Jovenes del Barrio, Kokolo, Jorge Alabê and members of Antibalas. She has appeared on The CBS Early Show, and Telemundo TV, PBS, WBAI, and played stages such as Symphony Space,
SOB's, The Zinc Bar, Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room, Radio City Music Hall, BAM CAFE, The Walker Art Center, Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, the New Orleans Jazz Festival.
"Dawn Drake & ZapOte" have performed live on WBAI, KPFA Pacifica Radio in Berkeley, Ca, KUSP in Santa Cruz, and WTJU in Charlottesville. They have played in Europe and the East and West Coast of the US, and they were featured performers in the multi-city Bluemont Concert Series in Virginia, 2008, the Wisteria Cornstalk Festival and Culturefest WV in 2009, the Downtown Berkeley Music Festival in 2009 and 2010, and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Chili Pepper Festival in 2010. Their full-length album and two EPs are available at CD Baby, www.cdbaby.com/cd/dawndrake3.
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