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Music, Music Review Jul 11, 2020
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Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed
- By Steve Krakow
- Tags: Music Review, Nicole Mitchell, EarthSeed, Lisa E. Harris, Afrofuturists, jazz, Black Earth Ensemble, Houston, Pittsburgh, FPE Records, Texas, opera, Sun Ra, Octavia Butler, Recommended

Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2018
Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.
- By John Corbett
- Tags: Music Feature, Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival, jazz, Nicole Mitchell, flute, Mandorla Awakening, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds, Black Earth Ensemble, FPE Records, UC Irvine, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM, Tomeka Reid, Tatsu Aoki, Alex Wing, Mamapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Ulysses Jenkins, Reneé Baker, Kojiro Umezaki, Jovia Armstrong, Avery R. Young, Damon Locks, Sun Ra, Lisa E. Harris, Earthseed, Octavia Butler, Iridescent, Christina Wheeler, Maroon Cloud, Fay Victor, Aruan Ortiz, Val Jeanty, Imani Uzuri, Afrofuturism

Music, Music Feature Sep 6, 2017
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The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music Feature, World Music Festival, World Music Festival 2017, World Music Festival Chicago, Salif Keita, Mdou Moctar, Bharath Symphony, Betsayda Machado, Betsayda Machado y la Parranda El Clavo, Eva Salina, Seun Kuti, Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Afrobeat, Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko: Bamako*Chicago Sound System, Nicole Mitchell, Ballaké Sissoko, Bitori, Trio Da Kali, L. Subramaniam, Saban Bajramovic, Ragamala, ragas, Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park, Tanmoy Bose, Mahesh Krishnamurthy, Debashish Bhattacharya, Ambi Subramaniam, Kavita Krishnamurti Subramaniam, Bindu Subramaniam, India, Mali, Venezuela, Nigeria, Cape Verde, Talé, Philippe Cohen Solal, Roots Manuva, Esperanza Spalding, Bobby McFerrin, Mamane Diabaté, Aboussi Cissoko, Lema Lema: Eva Salina Sings Saban Bajramovic, Romani, Jalopy Chorus, Sousume Tamachek, Tuareg, Anar, Music From Saharan Cellphones, Sahel Sounds, Christopher Kirkley, Niger, Rain the Color Blue With a Little Red in It, El Clavo, Barlovento, cumbes, cumbe, La Parranda El Clavo, Loé Loá: Rural Recordings Under the Mango Tree, Odelia, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, Mamadou Kouyaté, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouyaté, Tiken Jah Fakoly, AfroCubism, Lucy Duran, World Circuit, Kronos Quartet, Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet, Victor Tavares, funaná, Analog Africa, accordion, Bitori Nha Bibinha, Legend of Funaná: The Forbidden Music of the Cape Verde Islands, Chando Graciosa, At Peace, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Taj Mahal, Liu Fang, Vincent Segal, Ludovico Einaudi, Driss El Maloumi, Fassery Diabaté, Fatima Kouyaté, Black Earth Ensemble, Jeff Parker, Joshua Abrams, Mankwe Ndosi, Jovia Armstrong, Struggle Songs, Robert Glasper, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Apr 4, 2017
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Gwendolyn Brooks gets the centennial birthday party she deserves

Our Miss Brooks 100 is a yearlong celebration of the great poet of Bronzeville.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Lit Feature, Gwendolyn Brooks, Our Miss Brooks 100, Bronzeville, poetry, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Chicago Community Trust, Rita Dove, University of Chicago, DuSable Museum of African-American History, Centennial Brooks, Black Earth Ensemble, Jamila Woods, John Wilkinson, Recommended

Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Jun 23, 2011
Best jazz musician

Jason Adasiewicz
- Tags: Music & Nightlife, The Reader's picks, Jason Adasiewicz, Klang, Loose Assembly, Old Idea, Arrive, Starlicker, Black Earth Ensemble

Blogs, Bleader Feb 11, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 2/11

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Nicole Mitchell, Black Earth Ensemble, Mother Earth, Chicago Cultural Center, Crofton on Wells, Devin Hoff, Elastic, Kuma's Corner, The Fireman's Ball, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago Curry House, The Cabinet, Redmoon Theater, Branch 27, Decline of Ballooning and Madame X Paints Haydn Red, Prop Thtr, Kuma's Corner, Taqueria Traspasada, Robyn Okrant, Bistro Bordeaux, Wells Tower, Cafecito, James Kennedy, La Petite Folie

Blogs, Bleader Feb 10, 2010
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Nicole Mitchell Premieres a New Suite, With Guest Edmar Castaneda

Thursday at the Cultural Center, flutist Nicole Mitchell premieres the new suite "Mother Nature" in a free concert with guest harpist Edmar Castaneda.
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Music, Free Shit, Post No Bills, Swag, Nicole Mitchell, Mother Nature, Black Earth Ensemble, Edmar Castaneda, Chicago Cultural Center, John Scofield, Joe Locke, Marta Topferova, Paquito D'Rivera, arpa llanera, joropo, Colombia, jazz, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2007
Get in on Nicole Mitchell's next recording

An update on flutist Nicole Mitchell.
- By Monica Kendrick
- Tags: Music, Crickets, Nicole Mitchell, Alice Coltrane, AACM, Delmark Records, Black Earth Ensemble, Octavia Butler, Myra Melford

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Nicole Mitchell and Lisa E. Harris explore soulful Afrofuturist visions on EarthSeed

Flutist Nicole Mitchell uses music to map a possible paradise

She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.

Video
The brightest lights at the 2017 World Music Festival

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.

Recommended
Gwendolyn Brooks gets the centennial birthday party she deserves

Our Miss Brooks 100 is a yearlong celebration of the great poet of Bronzeville.

Best jazz musician

Jason Adasiewicz

Dinner & a Show: Thursday 2/11

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

Video
Nicole Mitchell Premieres a New Suite, With Guest Edmar Castaneda

Thursday at the Cultural Center, flutist Nicole Mitchell premieres the new suite "Mother Nature" in a free concert with guest harpist Edmar Castaneda.

Get in on Nicole Mitchell's next recording

An update on flutist Nicole Mitchell.

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She brings her Afrofuturist epic Mandorla Awakening back to Chicago for the Jazz Festival.

This free fest is a constellation of international stars—including Afrobeat scion Seun Kuti, rambunctious Cape Verdean accordionist Bitori, and Afro-Venezuelan flame keeper Betsayda Machado.

Our Miss Brooks 100 is a yearlong celebration of the great poet of Bronzeville.

Jason Adasiewicz

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

Thursday at the Cultural Center, flutist Nicole Mitchell premieres the new suite "Mother Nature" in a free concert with guest harpist Edmar Castaneda.

An update on flutist Nicole Mitchell.

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