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08-27-19 | Songs for Listening | Dan Hirsch

08-27-19 | Songs for Listening | Dan Hirsch

Dan Hirsch, an exceptional independent performance curator, picked tunes for Tuesday, August 27 at Songs for Listening.

Dan is originally from New England and is currently based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Starting out out as the founding director of Non-Event, a non-profit experimental music and sound art series, Hirsch eventually oversaw public programming for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, CRASHarts (now Global Arts Live), ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage, the Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at MSU, and 3S Artspace. His work in music, film & performing arts has also included collaborations w/ the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, the Goethe-Institut Boston, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, and Duke Performances at Duke University, where he also hosts the weekly radio show, 'Buried in the Mix', on WXDU.

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'Meet Me in the City' by Junior Kimbrough from 'First Recordings'
'Fleurette Africaine (African Flower)' by Duke Ellington from 'Money Jungle'
'Kand Yerega Deg New' by Asnakech Worku  from 'Asnakech'
'L'Auberge' by Brigitte Fontaine
'Saides E Bandeiras No. 1' by Milton Nascimento by 'Club Da Esquina 1'
'Jubba Aaka' by Dur Dur Band from 'Dur Dur of Somalia'
'Jennie Lee' by Shuggie Otis from 'Here Comes Shuggie Otis'
'Le Petite Fille Aux Fraises' by Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes from 'Le Rat Debile Et L'Homme Des Champs'
'Ratzido' by Stella Chiweshe from 'Kashawa: Early Singles'
'Cumberland Passing' by Beverly Glenn-Copeland
'Black Widow Spider' by Dr. John from 'Babylon'
'Awash' by Ali Mohammed Birra
'Congoman' by The Congos from 'Heart of the Congos'
'Kuyoya ni Kumwan'ya Ngai No. 82' by David Nzomo from 'Gospel Songs from Kenya: Kikamba Hymns'

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