Ian Dogole and Music Beyond Borders present a superb concert, “Stepping up for Children in Need”, to benefit local non-profit Bread & Roses and their programs for at-risk children. Recording artist, bandleader, percussionist and long-time Bread & Roses volunteer, Ian Dogole created this special concert – featuring Ian and a roster of world-class musicians performing music rooted in the Jazz and World music traditions – to open your hearts, uplift your souls and unite our community in support of Bread & Roses and their heroic efforts.
Come and be treated to a musical program that features the ancestral sound journeys of indigenous pan-American flutes, Vietnamese jaw harp and didgeridoo of René Jenkins with African drums and melodic percussion of Ian Dogole … to the soaring, stellar voice of Deborah Winters … to the spell-binding voice and uplifting saxophones of Richard Howell … to an original composition byIanDogoleon East-African kalimba that celebrates orca whales … to fresh interpretations of compositions by Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter, Randy Weston and Leon Thomas, featuring luminous Bay Area improvisers Frank Martin on piano, Fred Randolph on double bass and Eric Golub on viola.
MUSICIANS
Ian Dogole – global drums, shakers & melodic percussion
Richard Howell – saxophone and vocals
Frank Martin – piano
Fred Randolph – double bass
Eric Golub – viola
Deborah Winters – vocals
René Jenkins – indigenous flutes, jaw harp & didgeridoo
ABOUT BREAD & ROSES
For 45 years, Bread & Roses Presents (www.breadandroses.org) has uplifted people of all ages who are isolated in institutional settings. The organization achieves this mission through the daily presentation of free, live musical performances (over 600 per year throughout the Bay Area) that offer hope and healing and rekindle the human spirit.
Bread & Roses is deeply committed to serving disadvantaged children from high-risk neighborhoods, many of whom are homeless or from immigrant families or single-parent households. In fact, one-third of Bread & Roses’ performances are delivered to at-risk children and youth. To better serve these children, Bread & Roses is bringing more programs to child-centered facilities and recruiting additional performers to serve them. Many of these facilities are Head Start sites, low-income child development centers and other community partners serving at-risk children.
A portion of the proceeds from this concert will be donated to Bread & Roses to help support their programming for at-risk children.
