Upstream Gallery, 8 Main St. HOH

MAPUTI

Performance: 4pm, The Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings

Mbira music of Zimbabwe

Nora Balaban – mbira, vocals; Susan Rapalee, mbira, vocals; Rima Fand – violin, vocals; Sylvain Leroux – Fula flute, hosho, vocals

Shona mbira music of Zimbabwe is one of the most soulful sounds on the African continent. Originally used in all-night spirit possession ceremonies, the iron-pronged mbira produces music beautiful enough to attract the spirits and rhythmically charged enough to keep people dancing throughout the night. MAPUTI plays traditional songs that have been handed down to us by master musicians of Zimbabwe

Mansa Gory

Performance: 3pm, The Upstream Gallery, Hastings

John Coltrane meets Marvin Gaye and Kendrick Lamar

Mansa Gory – voice, trumpet, trombone; Stephen Mclean – piano, Granville Mullings Jr – percussion

Kindly adjust your sensory apparatus to welcome frequencies from the future. We humbly submit our musical artistry in the most authentic and theraputic sense. Our sound is a mixture of John Coltrane, Marvin Gaye, and Kendrick Lamar.

Mike Borgia

Performance: 5pm, The Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings

Alternative blues, acoustic blues rock

Mike Borgia is an Italian American singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist from New York. Best known for his dynamic 5 octave vocal range and unique melodic structures, floating in genres of blues, alternative rock and indie. With a large back catalogue of releases , Mike’s sound is a captivating example of musicianship that translates effortlessly into a mesmerizing and dynamic live experience. He is influenced by the likes of Chris Whitley, LedBelly, Howlin’ Wolf, and Jonny Lang.

D.C. Anderson and Ritt Henn

Performance: 12pm, Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings

A twenty-plus year musical collaboration between singer/songwriters D.C. Anderson and Ritt Henn continues in a concert of some of their favorite jazz standards and original compositions.

D.C. Anderson has spent most of his adult life on Broadway (THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA), Off Broadway (QUEEN OF THE MIST) and on the Guthrie and Steppenwolf stages. As a singer/songwriter, he has recorded over a dozen albums (streaming everywhere). His musical influences are all from the worlds of musical theater, vocal jazz and folk music.
Ritt Henn plays bass, writes songs, created four CDs of original music, one DVD of short films and produced over 200 episodes of ManBassBoxTV. Appeared Off-Broadway, performed with Chuck Berry, toured with Kathleen Turner and is a Bistro and MAC Award winner. Always a bassist, sometimes a musical director, ukulele plucker, singer and artistic whistler.

Old Dogs New Tricks

Performance: 1pm, The Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings

Harmony infused original contemporary folk from husband and husband duo Mark Davis and Jim Howe

Mark Davis – vocals and acoustic guitar; Jim Howe – vocals; Paul Harris – flute and harmonica

Old Dogs New Tricks is husband-and-husband duo Mark Davis and Jim Howe with flutist Paul Harris. Their songs ask what it means to be human and how, in the words of the poet Mary Oliver, we can make the most of our “one wild and precious life.” Forming Old Dogs New Tricks is one answer they came up with for themselves. Their sound has been described as part folk, part art song, and very much their own. They just released their second studio album, “Forever,” in February 2024.

Ms. Yvonne Sotomayor

Performance: 1pm, Upstream Gallery, 8 Main Street, Hastings-on-Hudson

Poetry backed by acoustic musical accompaniment.

Ms. Yvonne Sotomayor – spoken word; Kenn Rowell – guitar

Ms. Yvonne Sotomayor has seen her works published around the world, has performed internationally as well as across 31 U.S. States, including the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, in Atlanta, the Iowa and Kentucky State Fairs and several New York City Marathons. Her recordings have aired on radio in North America and overseas – most notably on Australia’s National Public Radio. She continues to write and produce from her home in New York.