Finger Lakes GrassRoots Miami-Flavored

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Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance Rich in Miami Flavor

Twenty-fifth edition of summer concert features four local acts and takes place in upstate New York July 16-19

Miami, FL – July 1, 2015 – This year’s lineup of the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance will feature mainstays like Donna the Buffalo, KeithFrank & Soileau Zydeco, Marco Benevento, Jim Lauderdale, and Big Mean SoundMachine. Also scheduled to appear: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, JohnBrown’s Body and Jimkata. Notably, a musical cadre from the South Florida area will also make the trek north: Lanzallamas, the Nag Champayons, Telekinetic Walrusand Nery Arevalo.

Originally an AIDSwork benefit concert thrown together in 1990, the Finger Lakes Festival of Music & Dance is now half-way into its third decade of existence. The event will take place over the course of four days at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds(2150 Trumansburg Rd, Trumansburg, NY 14886) and could be the perfect summer getaway from the South Florida heat. The nearby Finger Lakes Wine Country and the area’s renowned Rieslings may be of interest to travelers, as are the great opportunities for fishing and hiking along the myriad streams and gorges.

Lanzallamas is a five-piece modern Afro-Latino folkloric group that combines salsa, cumbia and electronic elements into an original and hypnotic sound. Led by singers / percussionists Fabio Patiño and Cintia Lovo, the group has appeared at the Finger Lakes, Shakori Hills (NC) and Virginia Key GrassRoots Festivals before, as well as at several other Miami-based music and arts events.

The Nag Champayons are an Afrogalactic, tropidelic six-piece who just releasedRising Sounds of a Sinking City, an eight-movement, 21-minute theme weaving together sonic textures from Africa to Colombia, then Stateside via Cuba, all done in a screaming 60s psychedelic rock style. The band features keyboardist / graphic designer Ryan Caccolici, bassist Edwin Cardona, guitarist Jose Elias, drummerKenneth Metzker, vocalist Komikaze. This year will mark the group’s debut at Finger Lakes.

Experimental / psychedelic / hip-hop / electronica act Telekinetic Walrus features the colorful cast of characters Y Diz, the TimeZoo Keeper, Corinne Stevie, Faun 5000,Buffalo, as well as Komakozie. They are currently embarked on the “Drive Through Tour 2015” in support of their recently released recording Spaceship with the Heavy Bass Bump.

Nery Arevalo is an El Salvador-born, Miami-based percussionist who has played with the James Montgomery Blues Band, the Fabulous Charmers, and currently, with the Nag Champions and Morikeba Kouyate and Friends.

Single day and four-day admission tickets are available online now atwww.GrassRootsFest.org. For more information, call 607.387.5098.

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ABOUT GRASSROOTS
The original Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance began in 1990 as a benefit concert to support a local AIDS organization in Ithaca, NY.  Encouraged by the success of that night, a decision was made to create an annual festival dedicated to raising money for the fight against AIDS, while supporting arts and education. With the help of countless volunteers, the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival has become an internationally-recognized event with a focus on traditional and contemporary roots music and dance from all over the world.  For four days every July, the festival hosts more than 60 performing groups on four stages at the Trumansburg Fairgrounds in Central New York near the university town of Ithaca.

Twelve years later, the Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance was launched on a 75-acre farm in rural North Carolina near the triangle cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Twice a year, in April and October, thousands of people attend the event to revel in great music, sweat it out on the dance floor, celebrate the arts, and build community. The site has since become the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center, a non-profit organization created to strengthen the community through music, arts and education.

The festival winters at the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, just off the coast of Miami, FL. This year’s edition was the fourth such year of the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance, featured local and national acts and was the most successful one yet.

For more information, visit GrassRootsFest.org  or call 607.387.5098.

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