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Table Pounding Music is a home for projects celebrating human connection:
projects bringing together artists from different genres/disciplines to create meaningful new hybrid work.
Table Pounding Music strives to create a platform for music that challenges conventional categories and seeks to innovate and explore.
All Table Pounding Records projects explore the idea of identity from multiple angles, in the knowledge that we are all connected, but that in each person’s individual quest to find their place in the world, we see our own quests reflected across cultural boundaries.
Table Pounding Music is a 501 c-3 not-for-profit.
Our mission is to foster dialogue and connection through the arts, serve as a cultural resource to different communities, and to develop, promote and sustain music and inter-disciplinary productions. This includes the creation of music that promotes cross-cultural and cross-generational dialogue, and initiatives to make it accessible to global audiences, whether through record releases, online platforms, or live performances around the world. It also includes educational initiatives/activities that foster and promote bridge-building and understanding between different communities through the arts. Table Pounding Music strives to create a platform for music that challenges conventional categories and seeks to innovate and explore at the highest level. All Table Pounding projects explore the idea of identity from multiple angles, in the knowledge that we are all connected, but that in each person’s individual quest to find their place in the world, we see our own quests reflected across cultural boundaries.
David Krakauer, Kathleen Tagg
Frances Torres
David Krakauer, Sara Langbert, Kathleen Tagg, Richard Weinert
Projects include Together We Stand (Abraham Inc featuring David Krakauer, Fred Wesley & Socalled (klezmer/funk/hip-hop); The Ties That Bind Us for Berlin’s Boulez Saal (classical/jazz/world with live video/spatialized surround-sound); Krakauer & Tagg’s Good Vibes Explosion (7-piece band: world/folk/multiple genres/electronic), Concerto for klezmer clarinet and orchestra; genre-crossing/musical dialogue project Keepers of the Flame for Poland’s Borderlands Foundation/Center for International Dialogue which has also been transferred to multiple educational settings; South African musical exploration project Where Worlds Collide.
We are so honored that Jon Kalish’s radio story on our co-creation Mazel Tov Cocktail Party was just broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition (the most listened to radio show in the US!!!). The story is currently up on NPR’s website. LISTEN TO THE NPR STORY HERE
Mazel Tov Cocktail Party crew went into the RFI studio to record a few songs live for Musiques du Monde #SessionLive and chat with the fantastic journalist Laurence Aloir!!
Listen: MUSIQUES DU MONDE
We’re thrilled that Mazel Tov Cocktail Party! is featured in the
Top 20 of the March 2022 European World Music Charts