Live in the Round: Nest Sessions hosted by Aubrey Haddard and Jose Lopez

About this event

The Nest Sessions is an exciting music series hosted at The Living Room at Full Circle. Curated by Hudson Valley musicians Aubrey Haddard and Jose Lopez, these intimate, community-focused evenings feature a house band set, guest artist performances, and an open, improvisational jam. The featured artist for the next Nest Session on November 12th will be Bakithi Kumalo! Where: The Living Room at Full Circle at 297 Bruynswick Rd., Gardiner, NY 12525 When: November 12th, 7- 10 p.m How: $20 suggested donation at the door. The Nest Sessions are community-supported. Whether you're joining the audience or sitting in for the jam, we ask everyone to contribute what they can. Donations help pay the house band and cover the costs of hosting the series, ensuring this inclusive and welcoming musical community can continue to thrive. Bakithi Kumalo Found at the heart and soul of modern-day anthems that have shaped our sense of music and culture as we know it, award-winning, multi-instrumentalist Bakithi Kumalo (Bah-Gee-Tee Koo-Ma-Low) is ranked among the top 50 bass players in the world by Bass Player Magazine. With a career spent touring alongside artists including Hugh Masekela, the Grateful Dead, Sting, Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Gloria Estefan, Derek Trucks, Miriam Makeba, and many others, his abilities extend to his solo work as a singer, percussionist, pianist and songwriter—in addition to his bass playing—presenting a culmination of diverse influences from throughout his life. Born in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa, and surrounded by relatives who loved music and actively performed, with traditional African rhythms and a cappella vocal groups all around him. Kumalo learned to follow the groove of the bass lines and developed licks based on the left-hand work of accordion players in the township bands. Landing his first job at the age of seven filling in for his uncle's bass player, he continued to work as a session musician in South Africa…

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