Date: Saturday, June 6, 2009
Event Time: 8:00 PM
Fareed Haque, guitar
Jim Feist, tabla
Willerm Delisfort, piano
Alex Austin, bass
Jason Smart, drums
$25 assigned rows 1-2
$15 assigned rows 3-5
$10 general admission
$5 student
Event Time: 8:00 PM
Fareed Haque, guitar
Jim Feist, tabla
Willerm Delisfort, piano
Alex Austin, bass
Jason Smart, drums
$25 assigned rows 1-2
$15 assigned rows 3-5
$10 general admission
$5 student
If you're a fan of guitar, jazz, world music, Pakistani/Desi music, this is a MUST SEE - Fareed is a truly phenomenal, master guitarist. MCB's Drew Bender will be there photographing the event and getting his groove on.
Come out to the Kerry Concert House in Ann Arbor and see some great music!
“Hindustani music swings!” says Fareed Haque, leader of the Flat Earth Ensemble (and member of Garaj Mahal). A jazz and classical guitar virtuoso, Haque's latest project is the culmination of years of study and innovation, a blending of Hindustani folk rhythms and groove jazz. “All my life I’ve loved the rhythms of South Asian folk music - the folk music from northwestern India and Pakistan, that is the basis for much of what is today called “Bollywood” film music, Qawwali, Bhangra. All of these are styles of South Asian music that GROOVE with hypnotic, high energy, danceable rhythms...much the same as the African-American gospel that is the basis of so much popular American music". In South Asia, as on the South Side of Chicago, ‘charismatic music’ - music that builds to an emotional and many would say spiritual climax - is at the core of traditional culture and the basis for much in popular culture...simply put Punjabi folk music is to India what gospel is to America - funky, fun, danceable and spiritual.
Fareed has busted onto the jamband scene with a fury, tearing up venues all over the country, both with Garaj Mahal (a newer ensemble of which he is prominently featured), and with his older, more established ensemble, the Fareed Haque Group. Fareed’s depth travels far beyond his guitar playing. He is a tenured professor, a husband, a father, and to say that he kills it on the six-string, would be an immense understatement: he plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, the sitar, transcribes classical music, and even plays a hybrid guitar/sitar.
Fareed Haque - Formerly on Blue Note Records and now with Owl Studios, this amazing guitar player is bending the lines between jazz, world beat, and jam music. Well known from years of touring as the band leader for Garaj Mahal, his audience base is drawn from jam friendly college students to serious button down jazz cats, to fans of East Indian and ethnic music. The list of musicians with whom he has played is amazing and includes Sting, Zakir Hussain, George Brooks, Paquito D’Rivera, Frank Bungarten, Goran Ivanovic, Joe Zawinul, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Frank Vignola, Frank Bungarten, Stephen Perkins / Willy Waldman’s Banyan, and many others. Mr. Haque is professor of music at Northern Illinois University and has been commissioned to compose and perform classical music including the Lahara concerto commissioned by the Chicago Symphonietta and a guitar concerto from the Eye of a Hurricane commissioned by Fulcrum Point Ensemble. His live performances appear in a wide spectrum of settings including Jam and Rock festivals, jazz houses, chamber orchestra and symphonic appearances, and clubs, colleges and universities across the globe. Some artists claim to be competent at multiple styles, but Fareed Haque’s experiences illustrate him as one of the true Renaissance musicians on the guitar.
Born in 1963 to Pakistani father and Chilean mother, extensive travels, especially long stays in Spain, France, Iran, Pakistan and Chile, exposed Haque to different musics from a very early age. This natural eclecticism has become the hallmark of Fareed's music. The 1981 Recipient of North Texas State University's Jazz Guitar Scholarship, Haque spent a year studying with renowned jazz guitarist and pedagogue Jack Peterson. Fareed's growing interest in the classical guitar led him to transfer to Northwestern University, where he completed his studies in classical guitar under David Buch, John Holmquist and Anne Waller.
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