We are pleased to announce that Lucía Pulido and Cosmas Magaya with Paul Berliner will be performing at MACSEM 2008 on Saturday, March 29th at 7:30 PM.  

PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CORRECTION ON THIS NOTICE!  THE CONCERT BEGINS AT 7:30PM, NOT 8PM!

Lucía Pulido is a Colombian singer who has been in New York since 1994. Prior to arriving in New York, Ms. Pulido toured and recorded as half of "Ivan y Lucía." Since then, she has recorded multiple albums with other artists as well as a solo album (Lucía, Intuition 2000), and has performed all over the city. Among other projects, she is currently a member of the Palenque Ensemble, which interprets traditional Colombian genres through an experimental lens. Visit her website at www.luciapulido.com for more information.

Cosmas Magaya is a world-renowned mbira player and teacher from Zimbabwe who has played and taught all over the world alone and with his ensembles, Mhuri yekwaRwizi and Zimbabwe Group Leaders Mbira Ensemble.  read more »

 
Paul Berliner is an mbira player and professor of music at Duke University. He is the author of The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe (University of Chicago Press, 1978) and has been collaborating and studying with Mr. Magaya since 1971. More information about Cosmas Magaya is available at the website of the Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center. Paul Berliner's CV is available from the Music Department at Duke University.

We are pleased to announce that the keynote address at MACSEM2008 will be delivered by Prof. Adelaida Reyes. Her lecture will be entitled "What Do Ethnomusicologists Study? An Old Question for a New Century."

Adelaida Reyes is Professor Emerita at New Jersey City University. She received her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 1975 at Columbia University. Her most recent books include Songs of the Caged, Songs of the Free: Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience (Temple University Press, 1999) and Music in America: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford University Press, 2004).