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Live Music: “Mademoiselle et son Orchestre” – Up-tempo funky jazz-blues from Marie-Claude & her band!

Published on February 23, 2010 in Events, Music, Party and Uncategorized. Comments Tags: america, band, blues, chinese, classics, english, france, french, funk, jazz, jazz standards, live music, mademoiselle, Mademoiselle et son Orchestre, marie-claude, marie-claude lebel, quebec, quebecois.

Next Performance: Saturday 27th February 2010 – 9:30pm (Supported by Joris. Free B4 9:30pm. 30 RMB after incl. a free drink)

Fronted by the beautiful and very talented Marie-Claude, ‘Mademoiselle et son Orchestre’ play up-tempo funky jazz blues with a Quebecois twist. Together with her band they perform their own original compositions together with covers of jazz classics from France and America, singing in French, English & Chinese. Marie-Claude is a force of nature on the stage singing up a storm and she always gets the whole crowd dancing.

For more information on Marie Claude please see her MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/mademoisellemali

Live Music: “Afrokoko Roots” – African ensemble playing afrobeat classics with Fela Kuti style

Published on November 13, 2009 in Events and Music.

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Comments Tags: african, african music beijing, afrobeat, afrokoko roots, band, beijing, beijing african, ensemble, fela kuti, gig, Music, nigerian, sunny dee.

Next Performance: Saturday 21st November – 10:30pm (Free before 9:30pm. 30 RMB after)

Afrokoko Roots are an afrobeat and reggae band formed by 33 year old Nigerian percussionist Sunny Dada. They perform afrobeat music in the style of Fela Kuti as well as reggae classics from Bob Marley and others.

Born out of his desire to bring African music to China, Sunny formed the band soon after moving to Beijing two years ago. Sunny is a true multi-instrumentalist including mastery of percussion, trap drumming, piano, trumpet, bass guitar and singing. He is also an accomplished song writer and composer of instrumental arrangements. His passion for music was ignited when he was young in the church that his father founded, which exposed him to lots of musical styles and gave him an opportunity to hone his skills.

Afrokoko Roots features Sunny on lead vocals, rhythm section with drums, guitar and bass guitar, horn section with trumpet, sax and trombone, a female backing vocalist and percussion! They also bring hot African dancing girls! Prepare to experience one hell of a show!

Their MySpace page can be viewed here: www.myspace.com/afrokokoroots

Live Music: “Pierre Kamila Jazz Trio” – Lively Jazz and Bossa Nova

Published on October 27, 2009 in Events and Music. Comments Tags: band, beijing, billy holiday, chimera, concert, dance, Drink, eclectic, ella fitzgerald, energetic, ginkgo, jazz, Jorg Tannenberg, kamila nasr, live music, Nicola Mege, otis redding, Party, performance, show, sultry, swing, uplifting, 毕志刚.

Next Performance: Thursday 29th October 2009 – 9:30pm (Free Entry)

Pierre, Kamila & Pierre form a lively Jazz trio worth coming out for. They do a variety of music music ranging from jazz to Bossa Nova. They perform both standards and originals. They are:

Kamila Nasr (Canada) vocals/flute (of Girassol Bossa Nova Quartet and Chimera fame)
Pierre Billiard (France) Guitar
Pierre Pradat (France) keyboard

Live Music: “Yellow Flowers” – An overall psychedelic blues experience!

Published on October 14, 2009 in Events and Music. Comments Tags: 60s, 70s, band, beijing, blues, bob dylan, classics, hippy, jimi hendrix, led zeppelin, live music, psychedelic, robert johnson, the beatles, tony joe white, trio, yellow flowers.

Next performance: Thursday 12th November – 9:30pm (Free Entry)

Addicted to the sounds of the 60s and 70s, Blues outfit “Yellow Flowers” interpret classics from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan, Tony Joe White, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and more. An overall psychedelic blues experience…

Live Music: “Mbeewan and the Chi’n'i Band” – The Final Reggae Show!

Published on September 1, 2009 in Events, Music and Party. Comments Tags: band, beijing, chi'n'i, china, chinese, dancehall, dub, event, french, gig, ginkgo, irieteam, live music, mbeewan, moussa boudra, Party, ragga, reggae, reggae-roots, rock, ska, sould.

Join us for Mbeewan’s final show of the Summer before Moussa returns to France!

Mbeewan (Moussa Boudra), a multi-instrumentalist and composer-songwriter for more than 10 years, is the lead singer of iRieTEAM, a French Nu-Roots Reggae band created 5 years ago, and whose first album will be released in 2009.

Reggae, rock, dub, rap and soul are the main influences which guide Mbeewan’s music. The rhythms go from ska to ragga-dancehall, but always keep a dominant reggae-roots touch, which make it a very distinctive and hardly definable reggae.

Mbeewan played with a lot of famous French bands such as:
Dub Incorporation, Aswad, Israel Vibration, Alpha Blondy, Dobacaracol, Bawa, Abdou Day, Kaly Live Dub, Ministère des Affaires Populaires, Kana, Les Wampas, Les Caméléons, Riké, Raspigaous, K2R Riddim, Killa Karltoon…

Mbeewan will be in Beijing this summer backed by Chinese musicians (Chi’n’I Band). They will play iRieTEAM’s original new songs, unpublished works for China, and some covers.

Join us at Ginkgo on 4th September for their final performance!

Free Entry before 9:30pm. 20 RMB after.

Live Music: “Hummingbird” – Fusing latin rhythms and jazz with traditional Kazakh influences for a singular salsa sound!

Published on August 27, 2009 in Events, Music and Party.

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Comments Tags: band, beijing, china, chinese, dancing, event, flamenco, fusion, gig, ginkgo, hummingbird, jazz, kazakh, live, live music, Music, Party, rhythm, salsa, xinjiang.

Next Performance: Saturday 3rd April 2010 – 10:30pm (Free B4 9:30pm. 30 RMB after incl. a free drink)

Beijing’s all-Chinese salsa band, Hummingbird fuses latin rhythms and jazz sensibilities with traditional Kazakh influences for a singular salsa sound! Bring your dancing shoes and your dancing friends and dance the night away!

Sunday Dinner Jazz at Ginkgo

Published on July 10, 2009 in Announcements, Events and Music. Comments Tags: band, beijing, bossa nova, dining, dinner, Drink, Food, ginkgo, jazz, laid back, live music, relaxing, restaurant, sunday.

Starting this August, we begin a season of “Dinner Jazz” live music events on alternating Sundays. The musicians play upstairs in the restaurant on the first and third Sunday every month from 7:30pm offering the perfect panacea to a long weekend! We have a 50 person capacity upstairs offering an intimate musical experience up-close and personal with the musicians. We have an eclectic mix of acts incorporating Jazz, Bossa Nova and other musical styles so there should be something for everyone. To avoid disappointment, booking for these events is strongly recommended. Check our website and the free press for the schedule. Join us at Ginkgo for food, drink and jazz!

Live Music: “Afrokoko Roots” – Beijing’s Afrobeat All-Stars are back live at Ginkgo!

Published on July 7, 2009 in Announcements, Events, Music and Party. Comments Tags: african, afrokoko roots, band, bob marley, dan brustman, dancing, fela kuti, Ghana, gig, girls, guitar, horn, live music, nigeria, nigerian, Party, reggae, sunny dada.

Afrokoko Roots are back! Returning to the Ginkgo stage after their breakout debut here in April, Afrokoko Roots will be playing live at Ginkgo from 10:30pm on Saturday 18th July.

For those not in the know, Afrokoko Roots are an afrobeat and reggae band formed by 33 year old Ghananian/Nigerian percussionist Sunny Dada. They perform afrobeat music in the style of Fela Kuti as well as reggae classics from Bob Marley and others.

Born out of his desire to bring African music to China, Sunny formed the band earlier this year. Sunny is a true multi-instrumentalist including mastery of percussion, trap drumming, piano, trumpet, bass guitar and singing. He is also an accomplished songwriter and composer of instrumental arrangements. His passion for music was ignited when he was young in the church that his father founded, which exposed him to lots of musical styles and gave him an opportunity to hone his skills.

The Ginkgo show will once again feature Sunny on lead vocals, a rhythm section with drums, guitar and bass guitar, horn section with trumpet, sax and trombone, a female backing vocalist and percussion! They also bring hot African dancing girls! Prepare to experience one hell of a show!

Entry is free before 9:30pm and 20 RMB thereafter.

You can view their MySpace page here: www.myspace.com/afrokokoroots

Afrokoko Roots are:

Sunny – Vocals
Beibei – Drums
Pablus – Bass Guitar
Patrick – Keyboard
Dan – Lead Guitar
Nat – Saxophone
Gabby – Trumpet
Mayong – Baritone Sax
Ping Ping – Trombone
Douglas – Conga / Backing Vocals
Cathbert – Shekere
Louis – Backing Vocals
Sheila – Backing Vocals
Julie – Dancer
Claudia – Dancer

Live Music: “The Redbucks” – Beijing’s most notorious and rowdy American bluegrass band!

Published on July 1, 2009 in Events and Music. Comments Tags: american, band, banjo, beijing, blluegrass beijing, bluegrass, china, gig, ginkgo, guitar, haarmonies, harmony, licks, live music, mandolin, the redbucks.

The Redbucks

Hailing from East to West, North to South, the Redbucks are Beijing’s most notorious and rowdy group of American Bluegrass musicians, and a sibling act to the The Moonshine Apothecary. Their robust and tender sound brings to mind the speed and force of a freight train combined with the sweetness of two lovers picnicking in a cherry orchard on spring afternoon. Hot licks, sweet harmonies, hootin’, hollerin’, stompin’, clappin’, and the good ole’ times…

Check out their MySpace page here: www.myspace.com/theredbucks

Free Entry before 9:30pm. 20 RMB after.

Please see the ‘Upcoming Events’ box on the right of our web page for their next performance. Seen them play before? Please give them a star rating below. Post your reviews in the comments.
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Live Music: “Quack Quack” – Duo performing jazz standards, bossa nova & originals

Published on June 23, 2009 in Events and Music. Comments Tags: band, beijing, bossa nova, brazil, canada, duo, ella fitzgerald, german, ginkgo, guitarist, jazz, Jorg Tannenberg, kamila nasr, live music, originals, otis redding, performance, quack quack, standards.

Quack Quack

Kamila Nasr (vocals) joins together with Jorg Tannenberg (guitar). Together they have created a set of Jazz standards, Bossa Nova, and original material. You will hear anything from Ella Fitzgerald to Otis Redding to Jobim. These two are both long time performers; Kamila from Canada spent many years touring her music throughout Canada before moving to Brazil to study Bossa Nova. She arrived to Beijing 2 years ago and has been performing in the Girassol Bossa Nova Quartet and Sambasia. Jorg, arrived from Germany 4 months ago, his skill as a jazz guitarist has kept him immersed in the Beijing music scene since his arrival. Together they make a magic and dynamic performance. Don’t miss Quack Quack!! (And remember… never judge a book by it’s cover..)

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