2009 WBF Program

The World Beat has won many awards in its twelve-year history including the 2008 Ovation Award for Best Festival or Event from the Oregon Festival and Event Association. At the Beat, you can dine, shop and watch breathtaking cultural performances in each of five World Villages, the Cultural Center, Middle Eastern Center, Showcase Stage, Stepping Stage and the Amphitheater. Celebrate Oregon’s Sesquicentennial! Visit the “Books Across Borders” tent. Cheer on the exciting Dragon Boat Racers! Read more to learn about the more than 125 cultural performances, demonstrations and workshops happening this June 27th and 28th at Oregon's Premier International Event!

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Join us as we venture...
"Into Africa"

Amphitheater:
Rainbow Dance Theater – The Roots of Hip-Hop
Sila and the AfroFunk Experience
Mamadou Thioub – Master Drummer/Fire Eater
Loveness Wesa and the Bantuz Band

Cultural Center:
African Influences in World Dance – Darryl Thomas
African Healing Traditions
African Influences in World Music
Cooking Demonstration (Kenya)
Cooking Demonstration (Ethiopia)

African Village:
Performances
Mythobolus Mask Theater – African Tales
Obo Abby –Drums of Ghana/Workshop
The African Puzzle
Daryl Thomas and the RDT/Workshop
African Fashions
Mamadou Thioub – Master Drummer/Fire Eater
Nzudi Ndi Igbo Masquerade
Loveness Wesa – Zimbabwean Dance
Fatima Al Wahid – Dances of North Africa
African Cultural Tent
African Vendor Booths

Americas:
Northwest Black American Pioneers
Seed of Faith

European Stage:
City Dance Theater – Hip Hop

World Beat Festival – Saturday June 27, 2009

Amphitheater

Asia/Pacific

Martial Arts

Cultural Center

European Stage

10:00

Children’s Parade led by OSDF Pipe Band

10:15

Opening

Ceremony

 

 

 

Decorate…Raise the Mahjstang

10:30

 

 

 

10:45

 

Sussefusse

International Dances

Chinese Community

 

 

Swedish

Head Wreath

Making

Flamenco Kids

11:00

Lion Dancers

 

 

11:15

Vietnamese

Dance and Fashions

 

City Dance Theatre

11:30

 

11:45

 

 

Vietnamese

VoViNam

 

 

AnDaire

Irish Dances

12:00

 

Eugene Taiko

 

Darryl Thomas

African Influence

In World Dance

12:15

Te Marama

Island Dances

 

12:30

 

Wild Rose Garland

English Country

Dances

12:45

 

 

Karate for

Kids

 

1:00

 

Portland Chinese Dance Troupe

 

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Oregon 150

1:15

 

Maharlika - Salem

Philippine Dances

 

1:30

 

 

Liederkreis

German Choir

1:45

 

 

 

2:00

 Koral Jam

Island Band

 

TIUA/WU

Japanese

Kendo

Japanese American

ONLC

Oregon 150

2:15

 

 

2:30

 

 

Kalabharathi

Indian Dances

2:45

Hmong American Community of

Portland

 

 

3:00

 

 

Okaidja Afrosa

African Diaspora

3:15

 

 

 

3:30

 

 

 

Chinese

Tai Chi

Aratas

Hungarian

Dances

3:45

True North

Bluegrass

 

 

4:00

 

 

Dolls for Democracy

4:15

 

Kalabharathi

Classical Indian

 

 

4:30

 

 

Molly Malone

Irish Dances

4:45

 

 

 

5:00

 

“One Spirit”

Drum Circle

 

Okinawan Karate

Westside

Martial Arts

Oregon

National Guard

Oregon 150

5:15

 

 

5:30

 

 

Heartstrings Duo

 

5:45

Grass Dancer

 

Paradise of

Samoa

 

 

6:00

 

Looking Wolf

Native American

Flutist of the Year

 

Sila

African Influence in

World Music

6:15

 

Salem

International

Folk Dances

6:30

 

 

French

Classical Fencing

6:45

 

 

7:00

Supplication Dance

Lama Karma

 

Ukulele

Workshop and

Performance

 

7:15

Te Marama

Oregon's only all-Tahitian studio

 

 

 

Ray Rom Quintet

7:30

 

 

7:45

 

 

 

8:00

Sila and the

AfroFunk

Experience

 

 

 

8:15

 

 

 

8:30

 

 

 

9:15

 

 

 

 

9:45

Procession of Fire and Light

10:00

Cultural

Fire Dances

 

 

 

 

10:30

 

 

 

 

11:00

Festival Ends

World Beat Festival – Saturday June 27, 2009

 

Middle East

Africa

Americas

Native America

Showcase Stage

10:00

Children’s Parade led by OSDF Pipe Band

10:15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Middle East Cultural Tent

sets the stage

for

*

 

Ongoing demonstrations

 

 

*

 

 

 

Music

Dance

and

Crafts

Africa Is not a Country!

Visit Africa Center

Hosted by the African Community.

With ongoing

Demonstrations….

 

 

 

 

10:30

 

 

 

 

Confederated

Tribes of the

Grand Ronde

Cultural and Educational Booth,

 

*

 

Sets the stage

For

Sharing of Native American

with

Interactive

Displays,

Crafts.

 

 

Ongoing Storytelling, Legend Enactments,

Regalia Displays

 

*

 

Tepee

hosted by Eastern Cherokee Warner Austin

 

 

10:45

 

 

11:00

 

Ameyaltonal

Azteca

 

11:15

Classical Flute

S. Schmeltzer

11:30

11:45

 

 

12:00

 

Mythobolus African Tales

 

 

Folk Singer

David Lanning

12:15

 

12:30

Piñata Party

12:45

 

 

 

Golden Flute

Sherry Lanning

1:00

 

Obo Addy

Drums of Ghana

 

1:15

 

1:30

Piñata Party

Phillipine Airs

Ed Peteros

Willaim Cabanilla

1:45

 

2:00

 

 

 

The African Puzzle

Pow Wow

Dancers

2:15

 

2:30

Jerry Rainingbird

Grass Dancer

 

 

Keyboard

Randy Byrnes

 

2:45

3:00

Jan Michael Looking Wolf

2008 Native Flutist of the Year

3:15

3:30

3:45

4:00

 

Darryl Thomas and Rainbow Dance Theatre

 

4:15

 

 

4:30

Piñata Party

 

Tin Pan Alley

Jazz, Bill Hughes

4:45

 

5:00

 

Mythobolus

American

Tales

5:15

 

 

5:30

 

 

Ukulele Quartet

5:45

 

 

6:00

 

 

African Fashions

 

6:15

 

 

6:30

Piñata Party

Maori Songs and More

Margaret Tuinei

6:45

 

7:00

 

Heartstrings

American

Folk Music

7:15

 

 

7:30

 

 

7:45

 

 

 

8:00

Sisters of the Desert Moon

 

 

8:15

 

 

8:30

 

 

9:30

 

Mamadou Thioub

 

 

 

9:45

Procession of Fire and Light

10:00

 

 

 

 

 

10:30

 

 

 

 

 

11:00

Festival Ends

World Beat Festival – Sunday June 28, 2009

 

Amphitheater

Asia Pacific

Dragon Boats

Cultural Center

Europe Stage

8:45

Opening Ceremony for Dragon Boat Races with Lion Dancers

10:00

 

 

 

 

 

10:30

 

 

 

*

Annual

Dragon Boat Races

return to the Salem

World Beat Festival

for the fifth year welcoming teams from Oregon

and

Washington

 

*

 

 

 

10:45

 

 

 

 

11:00

 

Hafla

 

Middle Eastern

Dances

 

Americanistan

 

INDUS

presents

Gandhi Symposium

--

Regional Dress and Culture of India

 

11:15

 

 

11:30

Mah-jong

Demonstration

 

11:45

Celtic

Footprints

12:00

 

Paradise of

Samoa

12:15

 

12:30

 

Cherry City

Cloggers

12:45

 

 

The Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan

1:00

 

Japanese

Folk Dancers

1:15

Mariachi

Los Gallos

 

1:30

 

Scottish Pipes

1:45

 

 

 

2:00

Takohachi

Japanese Taiko

 

Portland

Hmong Dancers

 

Grace Kuto

Shares Recipes

and tales from

Africa

2:15

 

2:30

 

 

Navarasa

Indian Dances

2:45

 

 

3:00

Darryl Thomas and

Rainbow

Dance Theater

 

Sinulog

Philippine

Festival Dances

3:15

 

 

Ceili of the Valley
Celtic Dancing

3:30

 

Horn of Africa

Ethiopian Cooking

3:45

 

4:00

Parade of Nations

 

4:15

 

 

Bhangra

 

Final races

and

awards ceremony

On Tap …

..Thru Time

4:30

 

4:45

 

 

Café Shalom

5:00

Loveness Wesa &

The Bantuz

Band

 

5:15

Gilitas Dancers

From

Rota, CNMI

 

Ballet

Folklorico Tlanese

5:30

 

5:45

 

6:00

Festival Ends

World Beat Festival – Sunday June 28, 2009

 

Middle East

Africa

Americas

Native America

Showcase

08:45

Opening Ceremony for Dragon Boat Races with Lion Dancers

10:00

 

 

Middle East Cultural Tent

sets the stage

for

 

*

 

Ongoing demonstrations

 

 

*

 

 

Music

Dance

and

Crafts

Africa is not a

Country!

Visit Africa Center

Hosted by the African Community with exhibits and ongoing

demonstrations

 

 

 

 

Confederated

Tribes of the

Grand Ronde

Cultural and Educational Booth,

 

*

Sets the stage

for Sharing of Native American Culture

with

Interactive

Displays,

Crafts.

*

Tepee

hosted by

Eastern Cherokee

Warner Austin

 

10:30

 

 

10:45

 

 

11:00

Mariachi

Los Gallos

 

11:15

 

11:30

 

The Lannings

 

11:45

 

12:00

 

Nzuko Ndi Igbo

Nigerian

Masquerade

Piñata Party

12:15

 

12:30

 

12:45

 

1:00

 

 

Ameyaltonal

Azteca

 

1:15

 

Songs of Malaysia

and more with

Maggie Felber

1:30

 

1:45

 

 

2:00

Loveness Wesa

Zimbabwean Dance

Workshop

Piñata Party

 

2:15

 

Mariachi Los Gallos

2:30

 

2:45

 

 

Americanistan

3:00

 

Gerry Rainingbird

Grass Dancer

3:15

 

3:30

 

Pow Wow Dancers

3:45

 

 

4:00

Parade of Nations

4:15

 

 

Fatima Al Wahid

Dances of

North Africa

 

 

Ongoing Storytelling, Legend Enactments,

Regalia Displays

 

Tin Pan Alley

Jazz, Bill Hughes

4:30

Piñata Party

4:45

 

5:00

 

5:15

 

 

Seed of Faith

5:30

 

5:45

 

 

6:00

Festival Ends

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