The Small World Music Festival, Various Locations, Toronto, ON - Thurs Sept 20th - Sun Sept 30th!

Small World Music launches their 2012 Fall Festival at Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas Street West, Toronto with The Battle of Santiago and Rambunctious.
Doors 8p/Show 9p

FREE EVENT - Festival Launch with The Battle of Santiago, Rambunctious plus DJ medicineman

Thu Sep 20, 2012

  

Small World Music launches their 2012 Fall Festival at Lula Lounge with The Battle of Santiago and Rambunctious with DJ medicineman
The Battle of Santiago blends afro-cuban rhythms, screaming rock guitars, dub basslines and soaring horns and flutes. Exploring the boundaries of rhythm and sound, The Battle of Santiago presents a unique experience, carefully walking on the edge of rock and world music, developing a new genre they call Afro-Cuban Post-Rock.
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Rambunctious is noisy, very active, and hard to control, usually as a result of excitement or youthful energy. Nine horns plus one drummer equals dance party. You make a title, we make a song. Toronto rabble-rouser Michael Louis Johnson leads jams of swing, funk, balkan-beat and more.

Fanfare Ciocarlia (Romania) with Lemon Bucket Orkestra (Canada)

Fri Sep 21, 2012

  

Fanfare Ciocarlia are one of the world’s greatest live bands, their energy and ingenuity having won them fans from Melbourne to Memphis, Tokyo to Toulouse. Having learned their craft at the feet of their fathers and grandfathers Fanfare’s members proudly approach every concert as a challenge to both entertain audiences and keep the true spirit of Gypsy music alive.

FREE EVENT - Small World In The Square

Sat Sep 22, 2012

Small World in the Square is our “festival within a festival”. It’s the most ambitious single day of concert and workshop programming in Small World history, and a fitting marquee celebration of our 11th anniversary. Appropriate to the occasion of our anniversary, we’ll feature mainstage concerts from Canadian and international artists both profiled and emerging, as well as 15-minute workshops in the InterAction tent.
Featured Artists:
Jayme Stone
The Gunsmith & MoHit
Kendra Ray
Focus Way
Marakatu Mar Aberto
Aline Morales
Wesli
The Battle of Santiago
Marco Calliari
MAKU Soundsystem
Lemon Bucket Orkestra

Deolinda (Portugal)
Tue Sep 25, 2012

    

Deolinda is the central character in the musical project by this Portuguese ensemble of the same name. This quartet of young musicians, from diverse musical backgrounds, draws on the roots of Portuguese traditional and popular music in creating their wildly flamboyant, sometimes comic performances.

Jorge Miguel Flamenco Ensemble

Wed Sep 26, 2012

The Jorge Miguel Flamenco Ensemble was formed in 2002 with some of the best musicians and dancers in Toronto. The Ensemble combines El Toque,El Baile y El Canté (Flamenco guitar, dance and singing) the three pillars of Flamenco. The Jorge Miguel Flamenco Ensemble is dedicated to presenting authentic and traditional Flamenco in Canada and abroad.

Yura Rafaliuk

Thu Sep 27, 2012

Yura Rafaliuk is the frontman/cimbalom-ist of the Ukrainian folk band Ludy Dobri. He has traveled across Ukraine unearthing traditional music and re-envisioning it with his band of “Good People.” This will be his second appearance at Small World Music Festival; this year he will be backed by members of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra.

Salsa Saturday with Moda Eterna

Sat Sep 29, 2012

  

Luisito Orbegoso leads Toronto’s Moda Eterna is headed by one of Toronto’s most in-demand musicians, Luisito Orbegoso. Moda Eterna plays classic salsa that has withstood different eras. “It’s hard-hitting 80s salsa that highlights the Ray Barretto repetoire,” says Orbegoso. Luis Orbegoso (known in the latin recording industry as “Luisito”) was born in Lima, Perú in 1971 and moved to Canada in 1972. He graduated from Humber College music program and was a student of Memo Acevedo (professor of percussion at New York University). Luisito jump-started his career as a professional bongo player with Memo’s ground breaking salsa band “Banda Brava” in 1993. He has performed and/or recorded with Luis Mario Ochoa & Cimarrón, Dominicanada, Jerry Gonzalez, Hilton Ruiz, Oscar de León, Hilario Durán, David Virelles, Nick Ali, Jane Bunnett, Diego Marulanda & Pacande, Chucho Valdéz, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Changuito, Giovanny Hidalgo, Ralph Irrizarry, Nelly Furtado, Kenwood Dennard and far too many more to list here. Luisito is one of the most in-demand percussionists in Toronto.
 

Brazilian Blend - Fall Festival Finale

Sun Sep 30, 2012

  

Small World Music wraps up with a Fall Festival finale party and concert at Lula Lounge on September 30th
Maracatu Mar Aberto is the sound of the “Open Sea” – the rhythm of oars and song carried over the ocean, a little game they play with drums, voice and dance.
With its roots in Brazil’s maracatu de baque virado, Maracatu Mar Aberto is a workshop and performance group that performs and studies that northern Brazilian genre from Recife. Their style is traced through the lineage of Maracatu Estrela Brilhante do Recife and Mestre Walter de França, Trovão das Minas and Maracatu Nunca Antes. It’s a living tradition of maracatu developed collectively in a local context. Not simply miming an old folkloric tradition Maracatu Mar Aberto is growing in its new Canadian home.
Like their name, they play with the influences that have traveled from Africa to Brazil and onwards to Toronto and beyond.Their show is pure rhythm, emotion, movement and excitement.
Featuring:
Maria Bonita & The Band
DJ eLman (Dos Mundos Radio)
Maracatu Mar Aberto

 For tickets and more info visit:  http://smallworldmusic.com