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One of the best things about WCBE is our live music. Keep up to date with the latest Live From Studio A performances coming up in the future. We bring you live in-studio sessions with local and national acts every week on 90.5 FM. Tune in and listen!

WCBE Presents Cyro Baptista's Banquet Of Spirits Live From Studio A Thurs. March 6, 2014 @ 2PM!

Cyro Baptista's Banquet Of Spirits will perform Live From Studio A

Cyro Baptista a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music will play a few songs live during the Global Village with his quartet Banquet Of Spirits! That night they'll perform over at the Wexner Center as part of their Via Brasil series!  Tune in for live music, conversation and a chance to win tickets to the show!

It's all waiting for you on 90.5FM Columbus, 106.3FM Newark and on line at www.wcbe.org!

Born in São Paulo, but a leading world citizen of New York’s vibrant Downtown scene for many years, master percussionist Cyro Baptista has collaborated with a wide variety of top talent—from John Zorn, David Byrne, and Laurie Anderson to Yo-Yo Ma, Trey Anastasio of Phish, and Caetano Veloso. While he’s been lauded for lending his quintessentially Brazilian flavor to diverse musical settings, Baptista has also gained deserved attention for the bands he leads himself—notably his four-piece Banquet of the Spirits.

In Baptista’s dynamic quartet, drummer-percussionist Tim Keiper, bassist-oudist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, and keyboardist-accordionist Brian Marsella buoy their leader’s sonic blend. Exemplars of today’s avant-world scene, Banquet of the Spirits are deeply inspired by the Brazilian philosophy of anthropofagia, or cultural cannibalism. This notion arguably informs all forms of art-making in Brazil today as it expresses the country’s eagerness to devour a wide variety of sources, digest them, and come up with a uniquely Brazilian synthesis that in turn reflects the country’s long history of colonization and diverse, multicultural population. The quartet feasts on Afro-Brazilian sounds, samba, and freewheeling jazz, as well as Indian, Arabic, Celtic, and Aboriginal music, among other inspirations. Join us in our performance space as the group serves up “a diversity of sounds and colors that can't be found anywhere else. This is global exotica of a kind so wonderfully weird and cool that it's a must-listen.” (All About Jazz)

Maggie Brennan has been with WCBE since she began as an intern in 1993. She’s passionate about sharing music from all over the world with our listeners and takes pride in showcasing a wide range of artists from here in central Ohio on her weekday music program.
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