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The Music and Cultural Rights concert will feature performances (solo or accompanied by guitar) providing a glimpse into each artists' performance style. Date: Friday, April 8, 2005 Venue: Bellefield Hall Auditorium Time: 8:00 PM Cost: $15 General Admission; $10 Senior/Student Admission; Pitt Students Free Ticket Requests can be handled by: Phil Thompson 412-624-4125 |
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| JOEY AYALA is a contemporary pop music artist in the Philippines. He is well known for his style of music that combines the sounds of Filipino ethnic instruments with modern pop music. His professional music career began in 1982 and to date, he has released six albums. Some of the Filipino ethnic instruments Ayala is known to use in his arrangements include the two-stringed hegalong of the T'Boli tribe in Mindanao and the 8-piece gong set, kulintang of the Maguindanaoan tribe, also in Mindanao. In addition to these ethnic instruments Ayala also uses the electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and, occasionally, synthesizer. Nowadays he performs mostly as a guitar-voice soloist while exploring the field of values education using musical, visual and theatrical techniques.
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| JUAN PABLO HERNANDEZ GOMEZ is a renowned composer, performer, and songwriter. He is a virtuouso performer of the tiple, a type of lute. Juan Pablo received a degree in journalism and social communications from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá in 1999. He has won several national competitions as tiple performer. He has been an organizer and advisor for the main festivals of Colombian Andean musics. Currently he works at the Office of Education and Culture of the state of Tolima as advisor and planner in projects of cultural advocacy; he also works with the Colombian Ministry of Culture in the cultural policy project on traditional musics of the Colombian Andean states of Tolima and Huila.
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| JON KAMAKAWIWO'OLE OSORIO is an accomplished musician, composer, and author. He has been a performer and song writer of Hawaiian music since the 1970s. In 1981, Osorio, along with Randy Bordon, was awarded with the 1981 Hoku Song of the Year for Hawaiian Eyes. In addition to his musical career, Osorio is the director of the University of Hawaii M'noa's Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies. His research and teaching interests include 19th- and 20th-century law and politics in Hawaii, music and identity and indigenous rights. Osorio is the author of Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 (2002).
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For more information, contact: Chris White cmw22@pitt.edu
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This conference is funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation
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