BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.10.5// X-WR-CALNAME:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-CALDESC:www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Pacific BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130525T044511CEST-1698lFlURf@www.yoshis.com/sanfrancisco DTSTAMP:20130525T020511Z DESCRIPTION:FREDERIC YONNET: \n\nUsing an instrument many have owned but fe w have mastered\, urban jazz harmonicist\, Fré\;dé\;ric Yonnet &rsquo\;s musical skills and stage presence crush every preconceived notio n you&rsquo\;ve ever had about the harmonica.\nRegarded for decades as the choice instrument of street musicians and loners who wanted to express th emselves through country music or the blues\, in Yonnet&rsquo\;s hands the harmonica becomes something altogether different\; a lead voice in urban jazz\, R&\;B and hip-hop. With each performance\, stereotypical walls c ome tumbling down as Yonnet presents the harmonica in a refreshing and mod ern context that is boldly stylish\, enchantingly cool and absorbingly bri lliant.\n\nJust listen to his sound. It funks. It rocks. It hips and hops. It grooves. It sways. It testifies. It prays. It has a reverence for gosp el\, blues and jazz while appealing to a generation bred on pop rock and h ip-hop. His impressive style has led to performances\, tours and recording s with some of the heaviest hitters in the music business including the le gendary Stevie Wonder\, the iconic Prince\, award-winning songwriter David Foster\, game-changing instrumentalist Kenny G\, American Idol&rsquo\;s R andy Jackson and R&\;B artists Erykah Badu\, Wyclef\, India.Arie\, Anth ony Hamilton and John Legend. Rolling Stone magazine referred to Yonnet as &ldquo\;Prince&rsquo\;s killer harmonica player&rdquo\; and praise from c omedian Dave Chappelle\, contemporary jazzman Bob James\, songstress Patti Austin and producer Pharrell Williams have affirmed his mission to change the way the music industry\, musicians and enthusiasts regard the pocket- size reed instrument.\n\nBorn in Normandy\, France to a Parisian father an d French Guyanese Creole mother\, Yonnet lived in and around Paris most of his life. As a child\, he and his dad performed comedy routines in theate rs throughout France and by 14\, he decided to literally march to the beat of his own drum. After a short stint as a drummer\, Yonnet revisited an i nstrument he had received as a child\, the harmonica. &ldquo\;I got kicked out of bands because I kept trying to play the melody on the drums\,&rdqu o\; says Yonnet. &ldquo\;On the harmonica\, I can play both the melody and the rhythm. Plus they&rsquo\;re lighter to carry.&rdquo\;\n\nThese days\, the U.S.-based Yonnet travels with pedal boards\, mixers\, amps\, microph ones and more than 50 diatonic harmonicas. &ldquo\;I&rsquo\;m pretty inten se on the harmonica and I like to have the &lsquo\;sharpest ax&rsquo\; at all times.&rdquo\; To be sure\, he&rsquo\;s not afraid to wield it. There aren&rsquo\;t many musicians who would go tê\;te-à\;-tê\;t e with Stevie Wonder on the harmonica\, but Yonnet has proved himself more than capable. &ldquo\;Fré\;dé\;ric Yonnet &mdash\; a Wonder d isciple &mdash\; had a crazy harmonica duel that almost sent Stevie flying off the stage in a frenzy\,&rdquo\; said Fox News following their perform ance at Madison Square Garden. Without a doubt\, Yonnet&rsquo\;s friendshi p with Wonder has been his biggest musical inspiration.\n\nAt the same sho w in 2007\, Prince first witnessed Yonnet&rsquo\;s expert musicianship\, e xhilarating panache and inexhaustible stage presence. It would be months b efore their paths crossed again\, but when they did\, Prince seized the op portunity to have Yonnet jam with him and his band at a house party. &ldqu o\;Genius recognizes genius\,&rdquo\; said saxophonist Mike Phillips\, who performed with them that night and witnessed the energy that Yonnet broug ht to the band. Since then\, Yonnet has recorded with Prince and performed with him as a featured guest at numerous shows\, including The Tonight Sh ow with Jay Leno and on Prince&rsquo\;s 20Ten European tour.\nWhile Yonnet enjoys the excitement of performing with some of the world&rsquo\;s great est music legends\, he knows that it&rsquo\;s the technical mastery of his instrument &mdash\; along with innovative collaborations and solo project s &mdash\; that will earn him recognition as one of the greatest harmonica players in the world. Fré\;dé\;ric Yonnet's website\nTALIB KW ELI:\n\nThe Brooklyn-based rapper earned his stripes as one of the most ly rically-gifted\, socially aware and politically insightful rappers to emer ge in the last 20 years. His travels around the globe as one of rap&rsquo\ ;s most in-demand performers combined with his conversations with politica l activists and his genre-straddling work with Idle Warship and others cau sed Kweli to realize that he was limited in a sense\, a prisoner of sorts of his own success as one of the world&rsquo\;s best rappers with somethin g significant to say.\n\n&ldquo\;My music has been associated with those t ypes of causes\, with positivity\, spirituality\, intelligence and being t hought-provoking and such\,&rdquo\; he says. &ldquo\;I think sometimes peo ple get caught up in that part of me as an artist and don&rsquo\;t necessa rily understand the musicality or fully appreciate the music and the enter tainment value behind what I do. I tried to stretch my wings a little bit and bring something that was less beholden to the world of hip-hop and mor e existing in the world in general.&rdquo\;\n\nThe result of this artistic growth and exploration arrives with Kweli&rsquo\;s dynamic Prisoner Of Co nscious AKA P.O.C.\, an artistic tour de force that signals the start of t he next chapter of Kweli&rsquo\;s remarkable career. The BK MC spent more time working on Prisoner Of Conscious than any of his other albums\, a thr ee-year journey that found him exploring new vibes\, joining in some unlik ely collaborations and taking him to foreign lands. Talib Kweli's website  \; DTSTART:20130126T200000 DTEND:20130126T220000 DURATION:PT3H LOCATION:San Francisco SUMMARY:FRÉDDÉRRIC YONNET with TALIB KWELI END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR