guymendilow

The Guy Mendilow Band Overtone Singing & World Music
www.guymendilow.com www.sonicbids.com/guymendilow VOTED BOSTON'S BEST WORLD MUSIC ACT 2005 —BEST MUSIC POLL 05 — BOSTON PHOENIX NOMINATED BOSTON'S BEST WORLD MUSIC ACT 2006 — BEST MUSIC POLL 06 — BOSTON PHOENIX WINNER, WORLD MUSIC SONG CONTEST 2005 —GLOBAL RHYTHM MAGAZINE
	"This is, to folk, what Bela Fleck is to Foggy Mountain Breakdown. This is unusual and exciting." — Philadelphia Folk Song Society "Guy Mendilow is quickly developing a reputation as a masterful, deeply passionate and sincere performer." — Global Rhythm Magazine "Mendilow is no dilettante - he learned the music of these countries by living and working there - so when he sings about a massacre by paramilitaries in Chiapas, he knows what he's talking about." — Boston Phoenix “The glory of what [Mendilow] does is finding a common ground among different cultures. And that’s what makes his music so exciting.” — Jewish Advocate
BIOGRAPHY: Guy Mendilow is a rarity, even in the diverse world of international music. His music not only offers audiences a taste of the beauty of the places he’s called home — from Israel and South Africa to Mexico, Brazil and the United States — but, perhaps more importantly, his mission as a performer and educator is to share some of the common human ground between these cultures and to build cross-cultural appreciation and respect. Mendilow’s timely message seems to be coming through loud and clear. He was voted Boston’s Best World Music Act in a poll of the Boston Phoenix’s 670,000 readers and performs at some of the nation’s best established festivals like the Philadelphia Folk Festival. His bridge-building work also allows him to play key roles in cutting-edge cultural encounters like those bringing together Boston’s Israeli and Latino communities and to present at conferences across the country. In “Mendilusia,” modern Israeli and ancient Judeo-Spanish melodies meld with Brazilian bossa, South African harmonies and Mendilow’s award-winning overtone singing. Mendilow’s quartet, Mendilusian Wine, performs on some sixteen instruments including berimbau, electric mbira, alongside violin, lush vocal harmonies and jaw harps. Guy and his ensemble are currently touring in promotion of their latest album, Guy Mendilow Live, released May 2006 on Earthen Groove Records.