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Mainstage Performance
Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits
Friday, October 30, 2009 | 8:00 pm
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
$34–38 (Adult) | $10 (Stanford Student)
$31–35 (Other Student)
$17–19 (Youth Under 18)
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Appearing on the heels of a new CD, Infinito, Brazilian percussionist and world music marauder Cyro Baptista knows how to have a good time. His relentlessly exuberant ensemble of self-professed cultural cannibals fully embraces the ethos of Brazil’s Anthropofagia movement—consume art and culture without restraint, and celebrate that mix of influences in your own performances. Members of the quartet sing and play a dizzying array of instruments with fluid virtuosity, mixing up African and Brazilian folk instruments like the gimbre, balafon, mbira and berimbau with electric keyboards, drum set and electric bass, and featuring Baptista’s bizarre playful homemade percussion instruments like "20 feet of chains," the "waterphone" and the "donkey jaw." Baptista’s résumé as a percussionist reflects his eclectic and adventurous spirit—he has performed with artists as stylistically diverse as Yo-Yo Ma, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock, David Byrne, Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Marsalis, and Medeski Martin & Wood, as well as Brazilian music titans Milton Nascimento, Caetano Veloso, and Marisa Monte.
Program
OPENING ACT: Mariachi Cardenal de Stanford, performance curated by Natalia Duong
The Banquet of the Spirits quartet will play songs form its self-titled first CD and its newly released album, entitled Infinito.
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Brazilian percussion master Cyro Baptista and Banquet of the Spirits performing in concert.
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