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Thank you FB friends for all the B-day love. I spent a quiet idyll of time with dear pals enjoying their labor of love garden and being dazzled by Swallows and hummingbirds.

Kindness is a phenomenon I am feeling just like this bee.

Sunday is going to be a great creative day! First up https://www.facebook.com/events/482034534244190/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[]%7D
and then I'll head up the street for the Juneteenth Pop Up at Midtown Square. https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/06/weekend-brings-second-annual-juneteenth-pop-up-market-and-dj-riz-to-23rd-and-unions-midtown-square/

Weekend brings second annual Juneteenth Pop-up Market — and DJ Riz — to 23rd and Union’s Midtown Square Sunday, June 16th will bring the second annual REVIVAL: Juneteenth Pop-up Market to the Central District’s Midtown Square development at 23rd and Union. The annual market event returns with s…

This is a such a great piece from a great series.

Cipher Goings: Tapping into the rhythm This dancer discovered tap at a young age and has since become part of its growing renaissance.

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Wassa Dance with live music this Sunday May 5 vote with your feet Volume XXII! May 2024 Visit our Website Oh happy day, Sending you a quick reminder that our fabulous live music Sunday with Caxambu, Denny Stern and Will Matthews is ON! for May 5,

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So much happening Live music Sunday, new rates, an autumn weekend at MMI Volume XXIV April 2024 Visit our Website Hellllloooo fine folks, Many things to share. First some really good news! Things align! Live music cla

From Wassa Dance blog today:
re: Keep on......
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Six years back when I had to relocate, I pretty much gave up weekends to have guaranteed weekly income to support continuing to be an independent dance teacher here in the Occupied Duwamish Territory aka Seattle.
I have many so blessings and privileges still.
And, I miss A LOT of cultural events and friends' cool things along the way.
The week ahead is a pretty significant exception where I'm going to see not one but TWO women artists from Mali. Back to back.
Fatoumata Diawara on Friday and Oumou Sangare on Saturday.
If ya know me, you know I'm over the moon for these, especially Oumou.
Amina, amina.

18!! dancers at Wassa Dance this fine fine morning. That's post quarantine Saturday record. And the playlist title is apt.

Thank you Rhiannon Giddens!

Posting again because I forgot and had the link as the main photo.

Didn't know this was dropping at 2 or I would have spaced the Tray post below a little earlier! But was getting ready for the RTE Folk Awards - everything converges sometimes.

I wrote a little thing for the Guardian - I wish I could have included more but there was a 800 word limit - so no mention of the commercial side of Bristol, or the white supremacy-laden early folk movement, or of say, Leslie Riddle and DeFord Bailey - but with help from my banjo brain trust (amazing minds who have done a ton of research on the banjo), I figured out a way to make every word count for the thing I know best - black string band music and the world BEFORE commerical country. And that's the world you rarely see mentioned when people talk about Black folk in country music. Anyway, check it out.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/27/black-artistry-is-woven-into-the-fabric-of-country-music-it-belongs-to-everyone-beyonce-texas-hold-em-rhiannon-giddens?fbclid=IwAR2Hbs-vIXLs8erjttQKlD5OrZzOGZgiUA8QOaY9gw1dj7zTzvXYyQiV3T0

This playlist from last spring sounded so good on this bright shiny Wassa Dance morning with my vintage/super lucky 13 folks.

Such a feast of love and powerful vibrations in our Wassa Dance
live music event this morning.
Like old times except even better.

Is trademark infringement accusation from meta a real thing?
Threatening to take down Wassa Dance

Wassa Dance is back. Today we danced to Coleman Hawkins, Louis Prima, Ali Hassan Kuban and many more.

Wassa Dance's last class for 2023 has raised
$1,440 for our https://givebutter.com/WassaDanceFH.
Thank you to all who have donated so far and to my beautiful friends who made it in this morning!

Wassa Dance on
Saturday December 30, 2023
9-10 am at Balance Studio - Seattle
is a thank you for donating to Facing Homelessness.
You don't have to attend to donate. (And you don't have to donate to attend but I hope you will.)
If you donate before the event, we can celebrate what we've raised that morning.
Donation details here

Saturday December 30 is a fundraiser for Facing Homelessness - Wassa Dance Our last session of 2023 on Saturday December 30, 2023 9:00-10:00 am will be a thank you for donating to Facing Homelessness – one of the local organizations doing important advocacy for our unsheltered neighbors. While donations are welcome through the end of the year at least, please donate prio...

Looking forward to diving into this.

Afropop Worldwide | Spiritual Journeys: Traveling Spirit Masters, The Gnawa of Morocco This program explores the Gnawa music and tradition in Morocco with author and scholar Deborah Kapchan.

Can't wait to drive into this.

It makes me very happy to offer this:

Wassa Dance Donation Drive for Facing Homelessness By Facing Homelessness

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Wassa Dance - Saturday December 30 We dance for Facing Homelessness Volume XXII December 2023 Visit our Website BREAKING NEWS! I am excited to say that Saturday December 30, our regular Saturday morning class, and last session for 2023

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Super fun Saturday class at Balance Studio - Seattle with Wassa Dance breaking our post covid dance together record.

How dancers count to 14 (today at least, signing in)

A remarkable inspiring thing happened tonight at Benaroya Hall. I am so damn glad I got to be there to see it happen. A heart full of thanks to the artists and producers who made this.
https://www.facebook.com/movimientoafrolatinoseattle.

MÁS - Movimiento Afrolatino Seattle Education and empowerment through Afro-Latino arts / Educación y fortalecimiento a través del arte afrolatino

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