August 10th: Peskeompskut Park. This group is all about their way cool and adventurous mix of Beat poetry and World Fusion Music. It features Beat poet Laureate Paul Richmond, guitarist John Sheldon and percussionist Tony Vacca. Time TBA
Tony Vacca will be performing in Avery Sharpe’s eight person ensemble, presenting the music of his new recording. “I Am My Neighbors’ Keeper.” in Plainfield, MA.
https://www.averysharpe.com/legendary-bassist-avery-sharpe-to-release-new-album
July 14: DO IT NOW at The Peskeompskut Park, Turner’s Falls, MA. The group is Beat poet laureate Paul Richmond, guitarist John Sheldon, and percussionist/poet Tony Vacca.
Tony Vacca will be performing with Paul Richmond’s Do It Now at Orange River Fest. The group is Beat poet laureate Paul Richmond, with John Sheldon on guitar and Tony Vacca on balafon and percussion.
This is a Juneteenth Celebration featuring Avery Sharpe’s 400 Project. Tony Vacca will be performing with Avery’s jazz sextet accompanied by the Springfield Symphony in Springfield Symphony Hall.
https://www.springfieldsymphony.org/event/juneteenth-freedom-day-concert/
Tony Vacca and Abdou Sarr will be doing a day of hands-on workshops and a performance for schools in Schenectady, NY.
June 6: Tony Vacca and Abdou Sarr. World Percussion and Senegalese Dance for Tolland Elementary School in Tolland, CT. This will be a full day of hands-on workshops and concerts for students and faculty.
June 1. Tony Vacca and The Senegal-America Project at Workshop 13 in Ware, MA. This concert is part of a series of performances to celebrate and promote the arts in the Ware community and beyond. Set in a reimagined church, it’s a great venue for performers and audiences alike.
https://workshop13.org/calendar-event/tony-vacca-and-the-senegal-america-project/
May 24: Smith College. Words and music from the works of Andrea Hairston. Tony Vacca in collaboration with Afro-Futurist author Andrea Hairston and singer/musician/author Pan Morrigan-Welland.
May 18: Smith College. Words and music from the works of Andrea Hairston. Tony Vacca in collaboration with Afro-Futurist author Andrea Hairston and singer/musician/author Pan Morrigan-Welland.
Details TBA
May 7: Broadside Bookstore in Northampton with Afro-Futurist author Andrea Hairston. Pan Morrigan and I will be accompanying Ms. Hairston as she reads from her new novel, “Archangels of Funk.”
May 5th: Dancing Your Age is a group performance that features the lives of six dancers and the world-music of percussionist Tony Vacca inside the newly restored, historic Shepherd Barn (1805) in Northampton. Each dancer draws on their kinesthetic imagination and embodied memories to explore every year in their lives through movement, from their earliest days to the present, creating a performance that is at once individual but held within the rhythms of Tony Vacca's music.
May 3rd: Dancing Your Age in The Workroom in Northampton is a group improvisation that features the lives of participating dancers and the world-music of percussionist Tony Vacca. Each participant draws on their kinesthetic imagination and embodied memories to explore every year in their lives through movement, from their earliest days to the present, creating a shared experience that is at once individual but held within the rhythms of Tony Vacca's music and this unique place and time.
April 26: Video Session for Jo Sallins’ new book on the power of music.
April 25: “Cultural Kaleidoscope” at Frontier Regional High School. This is a solo World Percussion workshop and concert throughout the day of events.
April 3th-12th: An eight day in school solo residency at Monadnock School in New Hampshire. The focus is on “The Math and Magic of Rhythm” and “The Science of Sound.”
April 1: MB Avery School, Somers, CT. The Senegal-America Project: Tony Vacca, Tantra Zawadi and Abdou Sarr. This full day presentation for the Middle School includes an opening concert and hands-on workshops presented by each of these three performers.
February 15: The Lab School, NYC. The Senegal-AmericavProject: Tony Vacca, Tantra Zawadi, and Abdou Sarr. This will be a day of concerts, discussions and participatory, hands-on workshops.
February 7: The King School in Stamford, CT. The Senegal-America Project will be doing a day of concerts and hands-on workshops.
January 25: WISH school in Hartford, CT. This is a participatory “in concert” program, presented through Hartford Performs.
December 18: Batchelder School in Hartford, CT. This is a participatory “in concert” program, presented through Hartford Performs.
December 14: ELAMS school in Hartford, CT, presenting “The Math and Magic of Rhythm.” This is a hands-on, participatory educational program presented through Hartford Performs.
TIME TBA
Tony Vacca and The Senegal-America Project, featuring Tantra Zawadi, Abdou Sarr and Tony Vacca
This two-day residency is part of the Goldstein Memorial Fund. Itincludes hands-on workshops and a concert performance for the high school’s students and faculty of Northampton High School, in Northampton, MA.
11/11: The Wendell Full Moon Coffeehouse: https://www.wendellfullmoon.org/
DO IT NOW with Beat poet laureate Paul Richmond, guitarist John Sheldon and percussionist Tony Vacca. TIME TBA
Tony Vacca and World Rhythms Ensemble
Trumansburg Fairgrounds, Trumansburg, NY
Tickets and more info: https://ny-harvestfest.com
Tony and Abdou will be doing two concerts for students and faculty, highlighting their longstanding collaboration with The Senegal-America Project. Their work together is an innovative take on the traditions of their respective worlds, and the transformative power of looking beyond where you begin in order to shape the future.
10/4: Wilmington Delaware: The Urban Arts Exchange Amphitheater.
-11am. Tony Vacca and Abdou Sarr with special guest Pape Demba Samb.
-6:30 pm: Tony Vacca and World Rhythms Ensemble. Tony Vacca, Abdou Sarr, Derrik Jordan, Charles Langford and Jo Sallins.
https://delawarescene.com/organization/1646/urban-artist-exchange-amphitheater
The Garlic and Arts Festival. https://garlicandarts.org/.
I’ll be performing on “The Word Stage” with Beat poet laureate Paul Richmond as part of the all day lineup of amazing poets from near and far. Time TBA.
TIME 7:30 pm
“In Song and Conversation: a cultural exchange between Franklin County and Senegal.”
Details to be announced. For more info go to: https://sheatheater.org
The Shea Theater: 71 Avenue A, Turner’s Falls, MA.
Both The Shea Theater and The Senegal-America Project see themselves connecting communities near and far through the arts… and that’s exactly what’s happening here. Franklin county residents Tony Vacca (percussionist, USA) and Abdou Sarr (dancer, Senegal) have been performing in support of the S.A.P. for over two decades. And so have the rest of these performers. They’ll be joined by longtime project members, poet Ms. Tantra Zawadi (Brooklyn) and electric violinist Derrik Jordan of Brattleboro, VT.
Videographer and Franklin County resident Scot Broderick has created an accompanying video for the grant that is making The Shea Theater’s presentation possible. Global to local… it’s all part of what the arts can do to bring us together.
