[NEOPAL]Volunteers needed for Resonance: a World Music Festival on April 28 & 29

[tain at bw.edu]

   Resonance: World Music Festival, on April 28 and 29, is seeking volunteers for:
*** ticket sales / ushering / set up / greeting / clean up / backstage assistance /
artist assistance / bartending***
    Volunteers will get in FREE for the sessions they can assist during the two day
festival, Friday and Saturday nights from 7-10 and two dance parties from 10-1
am.
The WMF will feature ten groups performing music from four continents. In addition
to attending an outstanding line-up of concerts, the audience will be able to
become active participants in the festival through dance parties with live music
both nights and hands-on workshops on Saturday afternoon.  Polish, Ukrainian,
Arabic, Latin, African, Slavic, and Eastern European styles of music will be heard.
 Don’t miss being a part of making it happen!
     The events will take place at the Gordon Square Theatre (Fri.) and the Parish
Hall and Orthodox Church located at 6204 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. If
you would like to help with these exciting events, please call 216-333-5075 or
email Tarin Ain at tain at bw.edu. Visit www.detroitavenuearts.org for details.

   To learn more about what the music festival has to offer, read on!

   The festival kicks off Friday night, April 28th in the Old Parish Hall with an
East European concert featuring Gypsy-Punk Balkan brass band Slavic Soul Party!
from New York City, the Polish highlander fiddle band Goralska Muzyka from
Chicago and the Cleveland based East European band Harmonia. A dance party with
live music by all three groups follows the concert. On Saturday April 29th,
afternoon workshops and concerts run from 12 noon to 6 PM featuring the Eternal
Tango Quartet from Buenos Aires and New York, Harmonia, The Kobzari Ensemble of
the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, mbira (African thumb-piano) virtuoso, Monatho
Masani, South Indian veena player Shiva Sastry, the Nadeem Dlaikan Arabic
Ensemble , the Mamadou Diabate Ensemble from Mali and Goralska Muzyka. A tango
and Milonga dance workshop will be part of the Saturday afternoon line up.
Saturday evening concerts begin at
7 PM in both spaces. Immediately following the evening concerts, a milonga and
tango dance party with live music by the Eternal Tango Quartet takes place in the
Old Parish Hall and a World Music Café in Orthodox featuring acoustic performances
by the other festival artists.
    Single session tickets are $15 and $25 for a Festival Pass; dance party only
tickets are $10. Student/Senior Citizen tickets are $10 with ID. (If you
volunteer, admission for concerts is FREE.) For general information about the
festival and a detailed schedule, please visit www.detroitavenuearts.org.  For
further information and to order tickets, call 216-333-5075.
Thank you for your consideration.