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Columbia Artists Management, LLCpresent

Zap mama and Antibalas

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 3, 2015Eisenhower Auditorium

The program will be announced from the stage.

The performance is presented without an intermission.

The Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state

agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

Zap mamaZap Mama a.k.a. Marie Daulne, lead singer

Maimouna Youssef, backing vocals Lene Christensen, backing vocals

Manou Gallo, backing vocals, electric bass, percussion

Antibalas

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Marya J. Glur, company managerLauren Harton, technical director

Aron Mandelbaum, sound engineer

Columbia Artists Management, LLC, Tim Fox / Alison Ahart Williams, 1790 Broadway, New York, NY 10019

Produced in association with Solid Productions, LLC, Chris Goldsmith

Amayo, vocals, percussion Martín Perna, baritone sax, vocals

Eric Biondo, trumpetJeff Pierce, trumpet, trombone

Joseph Woullard, tenor sax Kevin Raczka, drums

Nikhil P. Yerawadekar, bass, guitar Timothy Allen, guitar

Raja Kassis, guitar Marcus Farrar, shekere, vocals

Will Rast, keyboardReinaldo de Jesus, congas, percussion

Antibalas, founded in 1998, evolved out of the same Brooklyn-based musical nucleus as Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, and into the world music scene around 2000. After years of heavy international touring, the band rose to greater prominence in 2007 for its role in the musical direction of the Broadway musical Fela!.

“I’ve been a fan of Zap Mama for twenty years. We’ve never had the chance to collaborate before, nor with any other group on this scale. This is a thrill and a privilege for us to be working together,” says Martín Perna of Antibalas. “I think the energies and talents of each group are complementary, and really exciting things will happen when we get to perform.” Tonight’s concert features a new presentation, combining the two groups into one show created for this tour. “Every time I do a tour, I want the show to have its own unique story arc which, even if it’s not explicitly expressed, still gives a certain flow or cohesiveness to the presentation,” says Zap Mama founder Marie Daulne. “I’m very excited to explore the intersections between our globally influenced vocal harmonies and the polyrhythmic rhythms of Antibalas. I’m sure it will be an exciting and fun journey.”

ZAP mAmA And AntiBAlAs CollABorAtion

ZAP mAmAKnown to her fans as Zap Mama, Marie Daulne began as the leader and founder of a female vocal polyphonic quintet that succeeded worldwide and has since evolved into a variety of configurations approaching urban, jazz, American soul, and Afro-pop music styles. Redefining the term “vo-calist,” Daulne is more than a singer;

she is a sonic stylist who alternates between storytelling and creative vo-cal expression. Using the organic tone of the human voice, Zap Mama has developed her sound for more than twenty years, inspiring diverse audi-ences around the world.

Born in East Zaire during the Congo Crisis, Daulne lost her Belgian father to the Simba rebels only days after her birth. Shortly after his death, she was flown with her Congolese mother and siblings to Belgium, where tradi-tional Congolese songs and culture remained present.

Her Belgian family exposed her to liturgical music and Walloon popular songs. As an adolescent, Daulne also trained in track and field, proving to be a powerful athlete.

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Following a return visit to the Congo in her early 20s, Daulne was inspired to sing and create music. Seamlessly blending African, American, and Euro-pean cultural influences, this Belgian-Congolese diva has a unique vocal style. Zap Mama’s genre connects the citizens of the world through sound. Her polyphonic arrangements use the voice as an instrument creating vocal grooves that reinterpret the sound of urban, Afro-scat, and alternative funk music.

In the early 1980s, hip-hop culture arrived in Europe and inspired Daulne’s body and soul. She began experimenting with beatbox, rap, graf-fiti, and training in acrobatic choreog-raphy. Daulne discovered her artistic personality and started her studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels. She also attended modern dance and circus acrobatics classes to develop her choreography.

In 1987, she began studying jazz in An-twerp, and by 1989 she was teaching and developing compositions for an a cappella quintet.

In the 1990s, she auditioned singers and founded the Afro-European vocal quintet Zap Mama.

The group received international atten-tion by signing with the Belgian label Crammed Discs (Sony Music) in 1991.

In 1992, David Byrne of Talking Heads signed Zap Mama with his label Luaka Bop (Warner Music Group) in the United States.

As new inspiration arrived, Zap Mama’s music began to incorporate a myriad of genres, particularly those of the African diaspora combined with a unique mix of Euro-American traditions.

As its success grew, the quintet was invited to prestigious stages around the world, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Wo-mad, Glastonbury, and many others.

Zap Mama’s Adventures in Afropea was nominated for a Grammy Award for the Best World Music album in 1994.

Invited to perform with the Neville Brothers, Al Jarreau, and Bobby McFerrin, Zap Mama toured through the United States, Japan, and coun-tries in Europe. The quintet appeared on numerous TV shows, including Taratata in France, Later … with Jools Holland on the BBC, and The Arsenio Hall Show and Sesame Street in the United States.

In 1995, Daulne signed, co-created, and performed in a commercial for Coca-Cola that was broadcast world-wide during the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. Taking center stage as the lead vocalist of Zap Mama, Daulne’s music took on a more urban influence and away from a cappella. Collaborat-ing with numerous artists, including Black Thought and Questlove (The Roots), Speech (Arrested Develop-ment), and Manu Dibango, Zap Mama toured concert halls across the United States. Zap Mama shows sold out in New Orleans, New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The tour reached around the world enchant-ing audiences in Africa, Australia, and northern Europe.

In 2000, Daulne worked with composer Hans Zimmer and producer Tom Cruise on the soundtrack for Paramount’s Mis-sion Impossible II, which included her cover version of “IKO IKO.”

Zap Mama’s Ancestry in Progress was recorded in Philadelphia and produced

by the band The Roots. Featuring Grammy Award winners Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, Common, Bilal, Quest-love, and Bahamadia, it represents a combination of Afro-European and Afro-American spirit. On the Billboard charts, it went straight to first place and stayed in the top twenty for sev-eral weeks.

Supermoon was recorded in New York. Daulne invited star musicians David Gilmore, Meshell Ndegeocello, Arno, and The Royal Opera Children’s Choir of Ma Monnaie (Belgium’s National Opera in Brussels).

In 2010, the NAACP Image Awards nominated Zap Mama’s Recreation for Outstanding World Music Album.

In addition to musical endeavors, Daulne has worked with humanitarian aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty Interna-tional, CARE, and the United Nations.

At the 2011 Soul Train Music Awards, Zap Mama graciously accepted the in-vitation from founder and creator Don

Cornelius to participate in a tribute performance honoring Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Earth, Wind & Fire. Zap Mama was the first European “Afro-pean” artist to be involved in the Soul Train Music project.

To celebrate her career, Daulne recorded Eclectic Flash Volume I and Flashback to Present Volume II. In both albums, she features her trademark vocal sound, core passion, and the es-sence of Zap Mama (today a quartet) music. She also offers vocal master classes and has established the Vocal Groove Choir to encourage fans and vocal enthusiasts in cities around the globe to sing.

The first single from the new album, “We Go,” vividly echoes strength and unity. It is a soundtrack for expanding possibilities. Rhythm brings people together with connection through time, tone, empowering lyrics, a ris-ing chorus, and invigorating horns. The alluring groove features legend-ary Jamaican producers and players Sly Robbie, Sly Dunbar, and Robert Shakespeare.

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AntiBAlAsSixteen years after the New York City group’s first gig, Antibalas—Afrobeat’s premier second-wave ensemble—is back with its fifth full-length

release, Antibalas. The album is a reaffirmation of the band’s collective musical strengths and a hard-hitting continuation of its “funkified” excursions. Martín Perna, Antibalas founder and baritone saxophonist, calls it a vault of esoteric sounds and knowledge.

“We kicked around a couple of different titles,” Perna explains, “but we could all agree on Antibalas. We’re always who we have been, and this is what we are, and what we’re about, without any frills. If you’ve never heard any of our albums before, this is the one to listen to.”

Front cover photos: 1. Diavolo Kenneth Mucke 2. Antibalas Marina Abadjieff 3. Imago Theatre’s Frogz Jerry Mouawad 4. SISTER ACT © 2014 Joan Marcus 5. Cyrille Aimée 6. The King’s Singers Axel Nickolaus 7. Time for Three Sherry Ferrante 8. THE CHIEFTAINS Kevin Kelly 9. Brussels Jazz Orchestra’s Graphicology Philip Paquet 10. eighth blackbird Luke Ratray 11. Rosanne Cash © Clay Patrick McBride 12. Theatreworks USA’s The Lightning Thief Jeremy Daniel 13. Brooklyn Rider Sarah Small 14. CAMELOT 15. The Nile Project Matjaz Kacicnik    

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Trumpeter Jordan McLean adds, “Musically, it’s our best playing as a band. We’re having more fun together. We’re all breathing in sync. The structures of the compositions and the overall sound are tighter. The band is sounding better than ever.”

The recording was done, with label head and former Antibalas member Gabriel Roth at the helm, during a two-week period at Daptone’s House of Soul Studios in Brooklyn. Antibalas is the first full-length album release on Daptone, which, given Antibalas’ long-running ties to the label, brings everything full-circle for the band.

Antibalas worked with Daptone’s Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Menahan Street Band, and The Budos Band, all while Roth was an original member.

“Making this record was like going back and playing basketball with all your high school buddies, or something,” Roth says.

“We’ve woven ourselves together musically but also personally,” Perna says. “It’s a community that existed as Antibalas, … and if you go back to when Gabe and Luke and I started making music together, it goes back to 1994.”

According to Perna, a little-known bit of music trivia is the fact that the Dap-Kings and Antibalas had their origins in the same apartment—a decrepit old factory loft on Havemeyer Street in Brooklyn.

“Gabe, Tunde Adebimpe, and I were all living there at the time Antibalas was getting started,” Perna says. “The Dap-Kings were called the Soul Providers at the time … just getting off the ground. Tunde just finished at NYU and was doing animation stuff at the time, and we would mess around on the cassette four-track and make little songs. And then Dave Sitek moved into the loft, and he and Tunde started making music. So this little liminal space was so fertile with friendship, and creative imagination, and this shared sense of struggle that was manifested in three musical groups that have made a pretty strong impact on America in different ways.”

Since the album’s release, Antibalas has: toured with the Daptone Super Soul Revue, playing at New York’s famed Apollo Theater; become the house band for the Paul Simon tribute concert at Carnegie Hall (performing with Allen Toussaint, Angelique Kidjo, Judy Collins, and Richard Marx); and recorded with producer/performing artist Marc Ronson and international superstar Jovanotti.

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