Gilberto Gil - The String Concert, featuring Jaques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil
Royce Hall at UCLA (340 Royce Drive Los Angeles, CA 90095)
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- $45.00 - $55.00
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- $22.50 - $27.50*
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The last date listed for Gilberto Gil - The String Concert, featuring Jaques Morelenbaum & Bem Gil was Saturday March 20, 2010 / 8:00pm.
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Goldstar Member Tips
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lauraxguzman on Where to Park
Easy and accessible
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lauraxguzman on What to Wear
It was casual. the folks went for the music.
6 Goldstar Member Reviews
lauraxguzman
First of all, Royce Hall is a great venue. Every seat in the house is a good seat. Gilberto Gil was truly amazing and cool. My hands still hurt from clapping so much. Thanks goldstar for making it available!Written on Mar 22 2010
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kaytuca
Excellent show. Excellent seats. Perfect all the way around.Written on Mar 22 2010
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Cecily Gardner
Very elegant and inspiring.... so much music coming from 3 acoustic instruments. A beautiful concert!Written on Mar 22 2010
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Aaron Mead
Amazing. Highly recommend. Wish I understood Portugese though.Written on Mar 22 2010
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Gilberto Gil carries out a fundamental role in the constant modernization process of Brazilian popular music. Partaking of this scene for 41 years, he has developed one of the most relevant and reknowned careers as a singer, composer and guitar-player in this field. Gil has had his albums released abroad since 1978, the year of his successful performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Every year he tours Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan with his contagious pop music spoken in portuguese-brazilian and international language. A music with a strong rhythmic appeal and melodic richness, as mixed as its people.
Rhythms from the northeast of Brazil like the baiao, apart from samba and bossa-nova were fundamental in his formation. Using them as a starting point, Gil forged his own music to which he incorporated rock, reggae, funk and rhythms from Bahia such as afoxe. Gil has tackled a wide variety of issues in his lyrics, pertinent to modern reality: from social inequality to the racial question, from African to Oriental culture, from science to religion, among others. The mastership with which Gil explores these subjects makes him one of the greatest Brazilian composer-lyricists.
Gil's importance to the culture of his country goes back to the '60s, when he and Caetano Veloso created Tropicalism. Radically innovative in the music scene, the movement assimilated pop culture to national genres; deeply critical on political and moral levels, Tropicalism ended up being repressed by the authoritarian regime. Gil and Caetano were imprisoned and exiled. With 65 albums released, Gilberto Gil has 12 gold records, 5 platinum albums, 7 grammys and more than 4 million records sold.
For his unflinching creative engagement in bringing to the world the heart and soul of the rich music of Brazil, Gilberto Gil has been honored by several entities and personalities and has also received many prizes in Brazil and abroad as The Polar Prize in 2005. Gil is a unique musical ambassador powered by firm cultural conviction.