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Dragon Boat Worldbeat Stage

2017/06/12 (Monday)

Join Cal Koat in welcoming some of Vancouver's best talent to the Worldbeat Stage all weekend at the Dragon Boat Festival in False Creek. 


Kutapira

Kutapira – Main Stage 5pm, Friday June 23

What started thirteen years ago as a youth world music initiative has metamorphosized into the crowd pleasing percussion explosion known today as Kutapira! The name Kutapira means “sweetness” in the Shona language of Zimbabwe, a fitting title for a band that plays a fusion of Zimbabwean marimba with West African and Afro-Cuban percussion and more. This highly stylized marimba fusion consists of some contemporary Zimbabwean tunes but the majority of the music is composed and arranged by Kutapira and inspired by genres like Reggae, Funk, Latin Jazz, Samba, Cumbia, Disco and Hip Hop. For years they performed exclusively as a mallet swinging, skin-slapping quintet but now, in their latest evolutionary form, feature guitar and vocals.

Kutapira blends traditional Afro-Cuban influences with Zimbabwean marimba music to create a vibration that is all their own! With hundreds of performances under their belt, a growing repertoire that continues to explore the vast potential of their arrangement, and a solid reputation among concert programmers as ‘fire starters’, the future couldn’t look any sweeter for Kutapira.

BC World Music Collective – Main Stage 6:30pm, Friday June 23

13 musicians. 7 nations. 3 juno award winning artists. The BC World Music Collective, featuring: Celso Machado, Kurai Bandambira Nyamukapa, Cuban Sonero Adonis Puentes, Tom Landa, Tonye, Robin Layne Band, and members of Locarno If there was a World Music supergroup, this would be it. The BC World Music Collective brings together musicians from Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, Africa, and London, who now make their home in this beautiful province.This is truly an exciting band with some impressive talent. Their performance is very much a collaboration that sees all the musicians playing with each other, and backing each other up as they sing their own songs and tell the stories of where they are from, and how they got to BC. They are the ideal festival band and takes listeners on a worldwide journey without leaving the province.

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