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New Mariza Brings a Smile to the World

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A Genre Reborn and a Singer Transformed:A New Mariza Brings a Smile to the World

Portugal’s voice of fado was born in Mozambique and grew up in her family’s fado house… singing songs at such a young age that her father drew pictures so that Mariza could understand the intense emotions… sadness, longing, the pain of love, the agony of love lost.

mariza“Fado” means fate, and little did anyone know at the time that Mariza’s was to bring the national treasure of Portugal to the world’s ears. She is the reigning Queen of Fado… with multiple Grammy nominations, a BBC World Music Awards honoree as Best European Act, and a new album and extensive North American tour. Mariza comes to the Lucas Theatre in Savannah on March 21s, 2009.

Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile” was never supposed to end up on the latest album by Portugal’s musical grande dame. Mariza , a fado powerhouse, and Brazilian pianist Ivan Lins were just clowning around, having some fun with the sweet song that’s been covered by everybody from Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross to Judy Garland and even Michael Jackson. That is, until they realized producer Javier Limón had been secretly recording them. When she looked up and saw tears in his eyes, she wondered what she had done. “I thought we broke something, I thought we did something wrong!” she exclaims. Sung with the kind of beautiful melancholy that only a fadista can bring, it instead ends up as a bonus track on the North American release of Terra (Four Quarters Entertainment / World Connection), a musical proclamation that Mariza has come into her own. Terra will be released Stateside on January 27, 2009, to coincide with an extensive three-month 47 city tour of North America.
Mariza calls “Smile” a gift, a “present for the kindness people have given to me through all this time, trying to understand me. It’s my way of saying ‘Thank you’.” And audiences have certainly enjoyed watching her transform. If her debut album Fado em Mim was an effort to establish her knowledge of the fado tradition, having grown up in her father’s fado house in Lisbon, her second release Fado Curvo allowed her to put her own stamp on the tradition while demonstrating that there are more ways than one to move artistically from point A to point B. Her next release, Transparente, a more intimate, classically-inspired take on fado, expressed Mariza as a more experienced and sophisticated artist.
Since then Mariza has continued to wow audiences with her powerful talent as a live performer, recording the album Concerto Em Lisboa to a hometown audience of several thousand right next to that most visual icon of fado-the sea. She has also traveled the world, selling out concert halls, from Carnegie Hall and Disney Concert Hall to London’s Royal Albert Hall and the Sydney Opera House, and winning awards, including a BBC World Music Award and 2008 Latin Grammy nomination.

Now a mature performer, Mariza’s Terra showcases the new voice of Portugal, a voice comfortable enough with Portuguese music to have some fun with it. On the one hand, Terra is firmly planted in tradition; tracks like “Já Me Deixou” and “Rosa Branca” rejuvenate well-worn, beloved songs of the past, and “Recurso” demonstrates her lifelong commitment to fado, having discovered this hand-written, never-published poem by David Mourão-Ferreira in a fado museum.

On the other hand, nourished by her traditional roots, Mariza branches out in new directions. The first clue of this was her choice of Javier Limón, a Grammy-nominated Spanish flamenco guitarist/producer (known for his work with Paco de Lucia, Bebo & Cigala, and Buika), as producer for Terra . At first leery of having somebody with such a different musical background working with her on her new album, Mariza invited him to Portugal to play in a taverna. It was then that it hit her: “Right then I knew he was the right one for this. With him, everything was music, for music.”

Collaboration with other musicians yielded musical fruits on the tracks of Terra as well. “Fronteira,” a lively song discussing the real and imagined borders between Portugal and Spain, features a folkloric Portuguese rhythm from the north that is made to sound gently Cuban through the playing of Chucho Valdes, the Cuban pianist and bandleader more known for his jazz stylings, and with a battery of Portuguese percussion played by Spanish master El Piraña. “Alma de Vento” was created in the highly unconventional manner of having a guitar line first sent to her by Dominic Miller, an Argentinian-born, London-raised musician who now plays with Sting, around which she had to find the right lyrics.

Perhaps the most memorable musical melding on the album happens in the morna “Beijo de Saudade.” The poem was written in misery in 1958 by one of the greatest Cape Verdean poets, B.leza, who had married a fado star, moved to Portugal, and found himself dying in a hospital bed where he saw the sea-and his tiny, faraway home island-through the window.

Joining her on the track is Tito Paris, a Cape Verdean icon, living in Lisbon who has worked before with Mariza and Cesaria Evora, among others, and who blends African influences into the Portuguese musical landscape. Half Mozambican herself, Mariza finds the collaboration on Terra deeply personal as well, saying that “Tito is putting the African part that is missing in me, and I’m putting the Portuguese part that is missing in him.” Along with an elegant muted trumpet, the track is loaded with enough fado-worthy longing to create a timeless masterpiece.

Iberian splendor is captured in the track “Pequenas Verdades,” a sweet tune written for Mariza by Limón himself. Wanting to retain the original Spanish flavor, they brought in Concha Buika-known simply as Buika-a meteorically rising Afro-Spanish flamenco singer.

It’s easy to put a star like Mariza into a musical box. Fado, the beguiling music that helped catapult her onto the global soundscape also taunts her like a jealous lover never wanting to be neglected for too long, a curious and passionate relationship she recounts on the track “Mihn’Alma.” Yet the transformed Mariza firmly stands her ground. With a new musical family surrounding her and the voice of experience and tradition behind her, she reaches out to give Portugal a new sound.


March 21st 2009, Saturday in Savannah, GA
Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn Street
Tickets: $20.00 – $65.00, Show: 8:30 PM
Ticket information: (912)234-3378
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Swing Central for High School Jazz Bands

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Aspiring young musicians to perform and study with esteemed clinicians including Associate Artistic Director Marcus Roberts, Wycliffe Gordon, John Clayton, James Ketch and Terell Stafford

Savannah, Georgia – Savannah Music Festival (SMF) has selected twelve outstanding high school jazz bands from eight states across the nation to participate in the fourth annual SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop between March 25 and 27, 2009. This year, the nationally recognized three-day workshop features some of the country’s finest high school jazz bands going head-to-head for $13,000 in cash awards. Mike Philly, Band Director of Tate High School (FL), says, “Our students are looking forward to the awesome line-up of clinicians and the chance to hear some of the other great high school jazz bands.”

“The team of instructors is a ‘Who’s Who’ of jazz greats,” says Battle Ground (WA) High School Band Director Greg McKelvey. Pianist Marcus Roberts, who recently accepted the official role of SMF’s Associate Artistic Director of Jazz Education, leads the SWING CENTRAL faculty. Many of the clinicians are also performing as part of original programs during the festival’s Savannah Jazz Party and Jazz Now & Forever concert series, giving the students opportunities to hear them in action on stage. Each competing band receives a preparatory visit by a SWING CENTRAL clinician in February. The complete faculty is Marcus Roberts, John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, Dave Stryker, Wycliffe Gordon, Jason Marsalis, Roland Guerin, Gerald Clayton, Obed Calvaire, Terell Stafford, James Ketch, Jack Wilkins, and Bunky Green.

Participating bands include:

Agoura High School Jazz A, Agoura Hills, CA

Agoura High School Studio A, Agoura Hills, CA

Battle Ground High School, Battle Ground, WA

Dillard Center for the Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Edmonds-Woodway High School, Edmonds, WA

Hoover High School, Hoover, AL

Overton High School, Memphis, TN

Lakota East High School, Liberty Township, OH

The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA

Pacific Crest Community School, Portland, OR

Tarpon Springs High School, Tarpon Springs, FL

Tate High School, Cantonment, FL

Held in the ballroom at the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, competition rounds are free to the public. Each band plays three selections: Benny Carter’s “Wiggle Walk,” “To You” by Thad Jones, and the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer classic “Blues in the Night,” a test piece arranged especially for SWING CENTRAL by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra saxophonist Ted Nash. Judges include John Clayton, James Ketch, Wycliffe Gordon, Bunky Green and Jack Wilkins. The three top-scoring bands each receive an honorarium ($5000 for first, $2500 for second and $1000 for third place) and perform the opening set at the SMF production Battle Royale, March 27, 8:30 p.m. at the Lucas Theatre for the Arts. Battle Royale recalls the long-standing tradition of jazz “cutting contests.” Two rhythm sections, the Marcus Roberts Trio and the Clayton Brothers, will face-off in spontaneous friendly competition. Various student soloists from the top bands perform, followed by special appearances by their clinicians. All SWING CENTRAL bands also perform for the public at Savannah’s Rousakis Plaza on River Street on March 26-27.

SWING CENTRAL is open to high school jazz bands from across the country. Committed to enhancing studies of the jazz tradition in the South, it fuses an established high quality mentorship program with a youth jazz band competition of national scope. The dates for SWING CENTRAL 2010 are March 31-April 2. SWING CENTRAL is sponsored by Robert & Jean Faircloth, Atlanta Gas Light and Rus & Jan Boekenheide.

SCAD presents Comics Art Forum XV Alumni Exhibition

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SAVANNAH, Ga. – The Savannah College of Art and Design presents outstanding works by SCAD sequential art alumni and friends in the Comics Art Forum XV Alumni Exhibition now through Jan. 22 at Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St., Savannah, Ga. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.


“We have mainstream superhero comics, alternative comics, Web comics, instructional comics, character design, toy design and more,” said David Duncan, chair of the SCAD sequential art department. “The most exciting thing about this exhibition is that it showcases many of the different fields of the industry that our students have moved into.”

Works on display also include independent and commercial features such as spreads for the comic book industry, cartooning, illustrating, short story writing and production.

“Standout artists in the show include Lee Loughridge, who has made a very reputable name for himself as one of the top colorists in mainstream comics, and Meghan Jean Kinder, who received a position in the visual development department at Laika Entertainment shortly after graduating,” said Duncan. Additional artists include Jennie Breeden, Erica Reis Currey, Jon Proctor, Mark Schultz, David Silva, Chris Sasaki, Nick Dragotta, Joey Weiser and Kristian Donaldson.

“The SCAD sequential art department really is the crossroads for many industries. The professional opportunities for our students reach out so much further than just comics,” said Duncan.

The exhibition was developed in conjunction with Comics Art Forum XV during the university’s fall quarter. Exhibiting artists were hosted as guests for the 15th annual event that brings in industry professionals for two days of workshops, portfolio reviews and a panel discussion with SCAD students. The event is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for students to network with industry professionals, learn more about the latest industry trends, and secure internships or jobs.

For more information about the SCAD sequential art department, visit www.scad.edu/sequentialart.

A Musical Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Savannah, Georgia

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Savannah, GA) The Jewish Educational Alliance will be host to the 11th Annual, A Musical Salute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Tuesday, January 13th at 7:00 P.M. at the Jewish Educational Alliance (5111 Abercorn St). This year’s event is being co-presented by the Jewish Educational Alliance, the Savannah Jewish Federation Community Relations Council, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Day Association, the Coastal Jazz Association, through a grant from the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Southeast Georgia Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Portman’s Music Superstore, Entenmann’s, Hands On Savannah of United Way, and MorningStar Cultural Arts are the event’s sponsors.

There will be a dessert reception at intermission.

This very powerful event, which will feature the Savannah Jazz Orchestra, co-led by Teddy Adams and Randall Reese, & The Savannah Arts Academy Skyelite Jazz Band, under the baton of Michael Hutchinson, is part of the official Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Celebration which pays tribute to the birth and life of one of America’s great men of freedom, justice and equality. The Savannah Jazz Orchestra is comprised of the areas best musicians and has backed some of the biggest names in jazz, including: Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Diane Schuur, Clark Terry and Bobby Watson. They have performed at most of the Savannah Jazz Festivals and their annual Tribute to the Duke Ellington Concert is a favorite among local jazz fans. The Skyelite Jazz Band has traveled the globe representing Savannah and has won many awards and accolades.
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Annual Southern Women’s Show Comes to Savannah

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One of the most highly anticipated events in Savannah, the annual Southern Women’s Show, attracts thousands of local women each year for three jam-packed days of fashion shows, cooking demonstrations, beauty tips, health screenings, decorating ideas and personal growth opportunities — all tailored especially for women — as well as celebrity appearances.

This year’s show also promises more than 300 exhibitors ranging from boutiques and jewelers to travel agents and health care professionals and making it the perfect one-stop shop for on-the-go women.

southern women showsWhile attendees are welcome to window shop, the hands-on, interactive nature of the Southern Women’s Show makes it the perfect opportunity to actually try out new products and services, consult with experts and register for prizes and giveaways.

On-site health screenings will enable women to undergo risk-factor assessments, with blood pressure, cholesterol, spinal screens and bone density checks.

Throughout the show, watch for live cooking demonstrations, seminars and fashion shows.

Show hours are Friday 10 a.m.–8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Admission is $9 at the door, $5 for children 6–12 years old and free for children under 6 years of age. Readmission tickets are $5. Groups of 10 or more can buy tickets in advance for $7 each. For group discount tickets and more information, call (800) 849-0248 or visit www.SouthernWomensShow.com.