February 6 - LIVE AT SULLIVAN HALL, 9PM February 14 - Valentine's Day, the offical holiday of EMEFE. March 1 - LIVE AT TUTUMA SOCIAL CLUB, 9PM March 11 - LIVE AT CAMEO in Brooklyn, 9PM April 2 - LIVE AT BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 12MIDNIGHT April 16 - LIVE AT TUTUMA SOCIAL CLUB, 8:30 and 10:30PM May 6 - "HELLO SUMMER" SHOW at SULLIVAN HALL, 10:30PM July 2 - BOWERY POETRY CLUB with MOKAAD, doors at 9:30pm July 25 - MERCURY LOUNGE with NYLE, Gato Loco, and The Mighty Mighty, 7:00pm September 17 - CEG Presents: End of the Summer Afro-Funk Throwdown featuring EMEFE w/ guests Mokaad and Underground System Afrobeat, more info atemefemusic.com September 17 - EMEFE releases it's debut cd, Music Frees All! October 23 - AN EVENING WITH EMEFE at The Bitter End, 7pm November6 - Get Up/Get Down with Eyelove/DJ SMKTZ at Cameo Gallery November 7 - Double Beat with Gato Loco at Bowery Poetry Club November 19 - USA V EMEFE, AN AFROBEAT DOUBLE HEADER - Rose Live - 10:30pm November 30 - AROUND THE WORLD PARTY at Cameo Gallery
December 18th - EMEFE DANCE PARTY with Guarco and DJ Feliz Cumbe - Bowery Poetry Club - 11:30pm
2011:
January 28th - AFRO-FUNK THROWDOWN PART 2 with Mokaad and members of Antibalas/FELA! - Sullivan Hall - 9:30pm
February 3rd - LOCAL 269 WITH THE BAILEN BROTHERS! 10PM
February 4th - UNDERGROUND GROUND with JAKE SNIDER BAND and ANTHONY DA COSTA!
February 23 - THE STUDIO @ WEBSTER HALL with SPORT OF KINGS !! 9PM
February 24 - NYU Ultraviolet Live at Kimmel Center. 7pm
February 26 - AFROBEAT PARTY @ ECLECTIC HOUSE, WESLEYAN with Superhuman Happiness ! 9pm
March 9 - Knitting Factory with Ismael Kouyate 9pm
March 19 - Highline Ballroom as part of 3 Generations Fundraiser
March 25 - SUNY Purchase with Mokaad
April 17 - EMEFE horns in Tribeca
April 21 - Joe's Pub with Jake Snider
April 22 - Milcreek Tavern in Philly
May 6 - Live at the Blue Note
May 20 - EMEFE/MOKAAD at BPC
June 3 - Music Frees All Festival at Drom
June 18 - Crest Fest
June 25 - Ars Nova
July 15 - Brooklyn Lyceum with MOKAAD
Sept 1 - NYU Kimmel
Sept 9 - EMEFE/MOKAAD at Purchase
Sept 24 - Cornelia St Block Party
Oct 1 - Bishops in Northampton MA
Oct 6 - Southpaw with Mokaad and Ms Lady
Oct 21 - LPR with Rusted Root, Felabration at Joe's Pub
EMEFE is a band lead by Miles Arntzen, a young musician based in New York City. Miles got the group together in December of the year 2009 after beginning his studies in the Jazz Department at New York University, taking inspiration mainly from his musical heroes in Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra and Medeski Martin and Wood, in addition to his new teachers and fellow students at NYU.
EMEFE has a debut CD released next month, called Music Frees All. EMEFE currently has a live album available ("Live at Tutuma Social Club") and a demo EP ("EMEFE SOUND"), both of which are currently available on BANDCAMP at http://www.emefe.bandcamp.com.
The band could be called an afrobeat band, with influence from Fela Kuti and Antibalas. It could be called a funk band, with influence from MMW, The Roots, and the Dap-Kings. But what's in a genre? We are, quite simply, EMEFE.
EMEFE is: Miles Arntzen Doug Berns Billy Aukstik Christian Anderson Nick Kokkinis Javier Ramos James Delano Jas Walton Deen Anbar Davy Levitan Kris Nolte Jake Pinto and our friends... Ian Chang Michael Harlen JJ Lindenthal
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