Indra benefit performance for Free Minds, Free People -August 2nd, 8 pm
Tara Mack
What better way to spend a summer evening?
next Thursday come listen to Indra –Danish Jazz/ NY Soul trio in an intimate setting ..
August 2nd, 8 pm
PS 122 / Mabou Mines space
9th Street & 1st Avenue – New York
Sliding scale donation $15 and up. All money raised will support youth scholarships for Free Minds, Free People - education for liberation conference. Come and bring a friend : )
Support youth researchers/students and activists to attend the Free Minds, Free People conference www.fmfp.org
Free Minds, Free People | Salt Lake City, UT | June 27-30, 2013
Free Minds, Free People is not your average conference; it is a space for building solutions to our nation’s most pressing issues in education. This national gathering, presented by the Education for Liberation Network, brings together teachers, high school and college students, researchers, parents and community based activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation. It takes place every other year.
Listen to Indra at www.indra.dk --she has a voice of gold and has sung for the queen of Denmark. last week performed for over 700 people... so this is a very special opportunity in an intimate space
"Indra could easily approach the league of the great jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan with her exceptional voice." - All About Jazz
"Here is an incredibly musically gifted singer...[she has] unbelievable range and sincerity. " - Jazz Special Magazine
Indra is an accomplished, adventurous jazz trio from Arhus, Denmark, featuring the supple and moving vocals of New York City native, Indra Rios-Moore, on sparsely-arranged songs from American jazz standards to American folk songs and Spanish boleros to newly composed pieces.
In 2006, Indra met her future husband, Danish saxophonist Benjamin Traerup, in a café in Brooklyn. The two fell in love and moved to Denmark, where they married and combined their mutual passions for jazz into a unique musical partnership that includes bassist Thomas Sejthen.
To celebrate the release of their second cd, "In Between", they are touring New York and New England. Their repertoire is the result of five years spent distilling a unique sound. It brims with spacious arrangements that braid together Indra's mesmerizing voice, Traerup's vibrant, melodic saxophone, and Sejthen's muscular, percussive bass (with fiddle and vocals from Arbo on several tracks). The playlist includes jazz standards (“My One and Only Love,” “Cry Me a River,” “Estate”), American folk songs (“Rain and Snow,” “No More My Lord”), boleros (“Mil Besos” and "Que Emocion") unique covers ("The Needle and the Damage Done" and "Man in the Long Black Coat") and original tunes.