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Fish Fry Friday

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Fish Fry Friday

Fish Fry fundraiser @ Unity Unity Bar­ber­ship Fri­day, May 18th Three Rivers Insti­tute of Afrikan Art & Cul­ture will serve up lip-smacking Talapia sand­wiches and coleslaw this Fri­day, May 18th, from 4-8PM. Unity is located at 921 E. Pon­tiac Street, Fort Wayne, just east of Hanna Street. Orders can be placed in advance by call­ing 260 969‑9442.  There will be enter­tain­ment, as well, fea­tur­ing Min­neapo­lis Spo­ken­Word artist Mankwe Ndosi, and TRIAAC’s own Three Rivers Jenbe Ensem­ble. Come early, eat hardy, and com­mune with your neighbors....

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Catch Continuuum Saturday at the Cafe

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Catch Continuuum Saturday at the Cafe

New jazz quar­tet at Acoustic Cafe Aric Curry: Poet with a message Sat­ur­day evening, March 24th, promises to be a show­stop­per at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe. Head­ing the lineup is the rel­a­tively new jazz ensem­ble fea­tur­ing sax-man Quincy Sanders. Con­tin­u­uum played its first gig in early Decem­ber 2011 at the Dash-In, in down­town Fort Wayne. The mem­bers of Con­tin­u­uum have per­formed together in other music projects around town and have played in var­i­ous funk, reg­gae, gospel, blues, rock, and jazz groups. The group—Quincy Sanders on...

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A Taste of New York in Downtown Fort Wayne

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A Taste of New York in Downtown Fort Wayne

A Down­town Artists’ Venue Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe Music isn’t hard to find in the Sum­mit City, and the qual­ity of musi­cian­ship is top notch. But there is one thing that sets TRIAAC’s Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Café apart from other venues — it’s an artists’ venue. Patrons who come to the Café come to hear the musi­cians and poets who bring their work to the boards. Much like Fort Wayne’s for­mer Toast & Jam or the  the atmos­phere and patron expec­ta­tion at New York’s Vil­lage Van­guard, “when the artists present every­one listens.”...

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Three Rivers Jenbe Ensemble at the Cafe

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Three Rivers Jenbe Ensemble at the Cafe

TRJE comes home to Acoustic Cafe The three Rivers Jenbe Ensem­ble will per­form live at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2012. The evening will begin at 7PM and close out at 10PM. TRJE, as the ensem­ble is pop­u­larly known, per­forms an inter­pre­ta­tion of the tra­di­tional dunun and jenbe drum ensem­ble of the Mande-speaking peo­ple of Guinea, West Afrika. This group of stu­dents has been play­ing together the last three years, tak­ing over from the grad­u­at­ing ensem­ble mem­bers who pre­ceded and trained them. It has long been an...

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Fabulous Jenbe kids on new drums

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Fabulous Jenbe kids on new drums

TRJE blend Ibo Ekwe with Guinean Krin drums Three Rivers Jenbe Ensem­ble bring new flavors The Three Rivers Jenbe Ensem­ble Sat­ur­day night reprised its ini­tial per­for­mance at the Friendly Fox Cof­fee­house on Fort Wayne’s South Side with a rous­ing per­for­mance that warmed patrons despite the intem­per­ate weather that blan­keted the region with a few inches of heavy snow. Bring­ing their reg­u­lar tra­di­tional Guinean dunun and jenbe drums inter­pre­ta­tions of the music of the Mande-speaking peo­ple of West Afrika, the ensem­ble for­ti­fied their...

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Nellems Trio and Linda Bess on tap at the SpokenWord Cafe

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Nellems Trio and Linda Bess on tap at the SpokenWord Cafe

Good music meets thought­ful words Jazz, Soul & Spo­ken­Word at the Acoustic Cafe The Bryan Nellems Trio will open the show at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe on Jan­u­ary 28, 2012. The recently formed ensem­ble fea­tures Bryan Nellems on drums, Phil Shurger on lead gui­tar and Marco Franco on bass. The trio will be doing jazz and soul cov­ers as well as debut­ing some orig­i­nal work by Nellems and Franco.  This up and com­ing trio is mak­ing its mark in the world of music and doesn’t appear to be slow­ing down any time soon; so keep your eyes and ears open for...

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