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Twoubadou, rooted in the Haitian Creole word for "troubadour," echoes the emotional narratives of its medieval namesake. Twoubadou traces its origins to the early 1900s, when seasonal migrant laborers working the cane fields in Cuba came to know and love Cuban guajiro music. The Cuban sound was soon melded with Haitian méringue and twoubadou was born. Twoubadous, akin to traveling bards, craft (often humorous) songs of love, life's complexities, and fleeting passions. "Twoubadou represents so much of what’s great about Haiti as an incubator for the arts, always bringing disparate cultures together to form wonderful new and uniquely West Indian expressions. Twoubadou is beautiful. Twoubadou is joy." Link Show made by Hugo Mendez.
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Jaffar Hussain is Pakistan’s most senior and accomplished Clarinet maestro. He is amongst a handful of people in all of South Asia, carrying on the now rare tradition of playing Hindustani Classical music on the Clarinet, a western instrument not typically heard in performances of Raags and Thumris. Born in to a brass band family, his grandfather founded the Punjab Band in the mid 20th century, and his father continued leading the band, making his name in a time of fierce competition amongst brass bands in Punjab such as the famous Babu Band and the Sohni Band. He himself learnt from Ustad Sohni Khan and was heavily influenced by the great Ustad Sadiq Ali Mando, one of the most well known classical Clarinet players in the sub-continent. What sets Jaffar Hussain apart are his masterful performances of classical forms like Raag, Thumri, and Kafi on the Clarinet, on which he manages to reproduce the melodic ornamentations that are central to this music and simultaneously display a creative rigour with his approach to rhythm (laya) and layakaari (rhythmic interplay).
Jaffar Hussain is Pakistan’s most senior and accomplished Clarinet maestro. He is amongst a handful of people in all of South Asia, carrying on the now rare tradition of playing Hindustani Classical music on the Clarinet, a western instrument not typically heard in performances of Raags and Thumris. Born in to a brass band family, his grandfather founded the Punjab Band in the mid 20th century, and his father continued leading the band, making his name in a time of fierce competition amongst brass bands in Punjab such as the famous Babu Band and the Sohni Band. He himself learnt from Ustad Sohni Khan and was heavily influenced by the great Ustad Sadiq Ali Mando, one of the most well known classical Clarinet players in the sub-continent. What sets Jaffar Hussain apart are his masterful performances of classical forms like Raag, Thumri, and Kafi on the Clarinet, on which he manages to reproduce the melodic ornamentations that are central to this music and simultaneously display a creative rigour with his approach to rhythm (laya) and layakaari (rhythmic interplay).
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