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Saturday, November 5, 2011 10pm-2am
Chicago Art Department
1932 S. Halsted St., Pilsen

No cover for entry! / Entrada gratis!

All-you-can-drink wristband/cup: $15 presale or $20 at door
Get yer wristband here!: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1756891911

Gozamos (www.gozamos.com) and craft beer purveyor 5 Rabbit Brewery (www.5rabbitbrewery.com) present the best Día de los Muertos party ever! The Chicago Art Department gallery will be stocked to the gills with 5 Rabbit’s latest creation, the Vida y Muerte Ale.

A full lineup of Chicago’s finest vintage cumbia, Afro-Latin, house, electronic, bugalu, world and tropicalia DJs are also on deck:
DJ Reyna - http://soundcloud.com/reyna
(((SONORAMA))) - http://sonoramachicago.com/
Ghetto Division - http://ghettodivision.com/
Sound Culture - http://soundculturechicago.com/
SOULPHONETICS - http://soulphonetics.com/

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*OCTOBER 28th DISCOTECA TROPICAL@ MARIA’S COMMUNITY BAR

*NOVEMBER 5th GOZAMOS DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PARTY@CHICAGO ART DEPT.

*NOVEMBER 11th TROPICOOL@AL TEATRO RISTORANTE

*note the flyer says Wed. it should say Thursday May 5th

(((SONORAMA)))

@maria’s community bar

friday Feb. 25th   9pm-2am

960 w. 31st. St. (Morgan & 31st) col. Bridgeport

Sonorama’s montly resisdency @Maria’s continues every last friday of the month of course expect lots of great latin grooves for your dancing pleasure, plenty of sweaty cumbias, boogaloo, funk, chicha, and more

a bailar con sonorama!!!!

We’re taking a lil break from our tropical tendancies to play a special night of  latin psych, garage, latin rock, and anything else tripped, fuzzed, or twisted that we dig out of our record crates. come check us out @ Cobra Lounge 2/20/2011 , free

Global Soul Continues @ Maria’s Community Bar cohosted by a eclectic mix of world music selectors to keep your ears buzzin, check us out on Wed. January 12 th when we get our turn on the decks alongside Mr. Joe Bryl.

January 5: K Ford (Chicago Afrobeat Project)

Kevin Ford started out in the world of music performance and production in 1984 as an 8th grade DJ . The tag-along kid looking over the shoulder of many legendary Chicago DJs, Kevin was exposed to the very early rise of Chicago house music during a peak time in Chicago’s club history, and the prelude to the explosion of electronic music worldwide.  Later, an accident in 1989 resulted in the 150 gallons of water dumping on Kevin’s DJ rig and a large insurance check. An interest in producing music, and 10 years of piano lessons, inspired him to move into keyboard performance and music production.

His experiences since then led him to perform in several bands, eventually touring the western U.S. as a keyboardist focusing on vintage electric piano, organ, and synthesizer sounds. Eventually returning to Chicago as part of a large funk and dance band, he took root in the Lake Street loft area and along with others, began new musical endeavors in Chicago, including Chicago Afrobeat Project, the livetronic band Elev8tor, and Volt Modz–a live remixed tech house duo.  His DJ performances range between funk, acid and nu jazz, afrobeat and its derivatives, and downtempo.

Link: http://chicagoafrobeatproject.com/site3/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

January 12 – Sonorama DJs

Sonorama is a Chicago-based Dj collective fronted by Charly Garcia and Eddy Baca created with the objective of promoting Latin-American roots music through their obsessive love of vinyl music culture.

Crossing geographic borders, musical eras, and genres with great ease, the duo sets out to showcase an eclectic program of rare grooves, musical curios, and Afro influenced dance music, along with any other surprises they dig up. Their mixing style can feature everything from Colombian cumbias from the Fuentes catalog to unreleased tropical bass grooves from obscure indie producers from all over Latin-America. Additionally, their Dj sets will also sometimes feature live video mixing of found and rare footage from various eras and sources creating a unique and exciting display of sight and sound to their Dj sets.

When not djing, the duo spends their time blogging about their latest digs as well as posting  videos, dj mixes, along with coproducing an hour-long podcast featuring their latest musical studies, including insights and historical perspective of the genres and artists they choose to feature.

Link: www.sonoramachicago.com

January 19: Richard Pierson

Richard Pierson was born in Northwestern Iowa in 1950.  He grew up in Wisconsin and attended Lawrence University (Appleton, Wis.), California Institute of the Arts (Burbank campus 1971), and University Of Wisconsin- Madison.  After graduation from broadcasting school, he worked primarily as a radio station continuity director, surreptitiously spending Sunday mornings in the empty station production studio replacing spent reels of previously recorded Evangelical sermonizing with overdubbed experiments in disco mix.  He returned to a previous side-job as club DJ during the disco boom of the late ’70s, finding a position in the entertainment and recreation Mecca of Somerset, Wisconsin, known for it’s prohibition past as a bootlegging stronghold of the Minnesota/Wisconsin border, and rumored to be remnant of French-Indian Metis heritage.
He moved to Chicago in 1981 and the rest is Metissage history including, among many other things, performances of original poetry and/or rap over live jazz at the original Artful Dodger (on Milwaukee Avenue), a 1983 night on the Powerplant rubber-band suspended decks at Riverside Club called Post-Modern All Nighter, and considerable crate digging in discotecas and botanicas, sometimes accompanied by DJ Jose De Jesus.

January 26: Clark Quente

Clark “Quente” Nelson is originally from Los Angeles, California. After numerous trips to Brazil, he picked up and moved to Rio De Janero where he studied industrial design and became a professional record dealer, specializing in rare vinyl from all over the world. He also worked as a DJ in many of Rio’s best bars and nightclubs, with residencies at 00 and Melt, among others. He also mixed music for runway shows for five years running at Fashion Rio. After living in Rio for seven years, he returned to Chicago where he works
as a graphic designer, while continuing to DJ and deal records.

For further information on the event contact Joe Bryl at 312-493-5807 or at joebryl54@gmail.com

Maria’s Community Bar……

960 W. 31st St.  (corner of Morgan and 31st.)

Wed.Oct. 27

Wed.Nov.10

Fri.Nov.26

SONORAMA de MIEdo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come and enjoy the spooky tropical sound from Latin America everything from cumbia,chicha,funk,soul,di

sco,rock…etc.!!! and celebrate EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS with us!!

SUNDAY OCT. 31st       10p-2Am

SKYLARK LOUNGE

2200 S. cERMAK  @ Halsted

We’ll be bringing our bag of latin wax to Ed Marszewski’s newly revamped Maria’s bar in our very own ‘hood of Bridgeport. Come on by, have a drink and some unique soundz, hope to see you there

Friday________September 24th_____________________(((___________sonorama______)))

_______________________________________________________@Maria’s Packaged Goods and Community Bar

960 West 31st Street (corner of 31st & Morgan)

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The 12th annual World Music Festival Chicago with Sound Culture presents Toy Selectah (Mexico), the ZZK Records Showcase featuring Frikstailers (Argentina) and El G (Argentina/USA), and Sonorama (Chicago, Illinois, USA) performing at Smart Bar.

Date: Sep 25, 2010

Hour: 10 pm

Location: Smart Bar Chicago 3730 N. Clark St. Chicago, IL 60613

Admission: $10 (21 and over) Ticket information at smartbarchicago.com or 773.549.0203

World Music Festival Chicago, running September 21-30, is a city-wide, multi-venue, week-long festival showcasing both traditional and contemporary music from diverse cultures across the world. Presented at area museums, parks, cultural centers, plazas, theaters, clubs, and other venues, events include a combination of free and low-cost ticketed concerts. A full schedule is available at WorldMusicFestivalChicago.org.

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Sonorama will be present to spin some latin rock, funk, soul, cumbia and more to make you move, check it out, we’ll be there from 7p till–??…

Kevin Jones (Windy City Soul) has organized a special night of soulful sounds from across the border! Hear the deepest and best in Latin Soul/Funk, Chicano Soul, Boogaloo, Latin Psych, Pop and much more with this week’s very special guests:

DJ Tropicaza (VampiSoul, DubLab – Mexico City)
http://…dublab.com/archive/tropicaza-mexifunk

El Señor Eddy Baca (Sonorama, Chicago)

Charly Garcia (Sonorama, Chicago)
http://www.sssonorama.wordpress.com/

Plus, hear the sounds of the soulful 60′s stateside with Merge resident Kevin Jones.

This is a very special night and we hope that you can make it out!

The Merge@

Late Bar

3534 W Belmont @ Drake

9pm-4am

The Merge is sponsored every week by Hobgoblin, Mayday Scooterclub and Mod Chicago

Drink specials provided by the fine folks at Late Bar.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=140913975934602

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Son del Corazón GALLERY/STAGE at the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival…

Son del Corazón GALLERY/STAGE at Milwaukee Avenue Arts Fest
2725 W. MILWAUKEE AVENUE – JULY 23 – 25
Noon – 11pm

www.milwaukeeavenueartsfestival.org
…www.rockotitlanchicago.com

Son del Corazon is a conglomerate of various forms of art, music and literature. Music, painting, drawings, photography, sculpture, poetry, visual (projected) art, luthier, documentry, aromatherapy, instalation, handmade art and art books and tshirts.

There’s going to be a lot of great music featured over the three days of the event here’s the lineups:

+++FRIDAY  July 23+++
5pm Ritual Danza Azteca (aztec dance)
6pm DJ Vextrux (world / cumba)
7pm Luis Badillo (trova)
8pm Legion (metal)
9pm Benjamín Anaya & Los Extraños Unidos (samba/funk)
10pm Mamba Negra (latin fusion)

+++SATURDAY    July 24th+++

5:30pm DJ Leo Suarez (cumbia colombiana)
7pm LFT (alternative)
7:45pm Bob Rock (hip hop)
8:15pm SKB (hip hop/reggae)

8:45pm El Señor Eddy Baca from Sonorama (world/latin)

10pm Zambo Beat Featuring Tony Rangel (afro beat)

+++SUNDAY    July25th+++
2pm Chuy Negrete (rancheras revolucionarias)
7pm Azul de Noche (blues)
8pm Fandanguero (son/latin)
9pm Son del Viento (son jarocho)