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Ras Mo Moses
- Male
- San Francisco Bay
- United States
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- NAME OF ACT
- Ras Mo
- DESCRIPTION
- SOLO ARTISTE, BAND
- MISSION STATEMENT
- ARTIST'S STATEMENT
My roots and purpose as an artist...
"I was born in Delices, a village on the South-Eastern coast of Dominica in the Caribbean. There, West African and European cultures blended into a beautiful mixture of music, costumes, dance, and color during festivities such as the pre-Lenten Masquerade (Carnival, or Mardi Gras).
People danced the belaire, mazouk, and quadrille to the accompaniment of drums and jing ping bands. Even today, village chantwels (female lead singers and composers) create songs about social and political issues, as well as the latest village gossip.
On full moon nights, young and old gathered to sing, dance, tell stories, and play music and ring games. In every home, grandparents recounted to children stories of the mythical and folk characters like Soucouyan and Lougarou, who still--it is said--inhabit the countryside. Cultural activity was an integral part of daily life. Production of staple crops like cassava (manioc, or yuca) excluded wage labor through a system called koudmen (from the French coup de main), though which villagers traded skills and work hours. At harvest time, women scraped the cassava roots while men ground them and dried the mash over the fire in huge, shallow iron pots.
As we worked, everyone sang to the music of drums and the ti bwa, a length of heavy bamboo placed on a stand and played by several percussionists, each with two sticks. Work songs also echoed across the village to accompany the arduous hauling of logs from the nearby mountains to the coast for building dugout canoes and houses. Those rhythms and melodies, and that spirit of community work, shaped my development as a person and an artist.
As a performer, popular theater teacher, and community worker, it is my mission, therefore, to help restore the arts to their role in the continuing renewal of community. I strive to do this through performance pieces blending traditional with contemporary cultural forms, and also through popular theater, which fosters a process of collective reflection, creation, and action. In this way, I hope to contribute to overcoming the problems that afflict our society, and to preserving the links between art and daily life."
- BIOGRAPHY
- Ras Mo is an award winning Dominican recording and performing artist based in USA. Pioneer in Caribbean performance poetry. Ras Mo has toured the Caribbean, North America and England. Has released 2 albums & several singles.Ras Mo's works are in English and his native creole and span a spectrum of geners including, creole music, soca, reggae, hip-hop, caribbean gospel and jazz.
He wrote performed and directed Dominicas first full length "peoples performance poetry production" entitled "Le′ve′ Domnitcjen". Plays hand drums and percuussion. Ras Mo Also produced the Cultural Passport CD, a compilation of Dominican artists mainly based outside Dominica. Funds from CD will fund music and arts education for youth in Dominica.
Latest project is a the Pink and Blue Arts For Violence Prevention project. Pink and Blue includes a CD of song and poems, a theater piece entitled Testify and workshops and presentations addressing issues of different types of violence, drugs, HIV & AIDS , gender and oppression. Read more about Ras Mo @ http:/www.ras mo.net http://myspace .com/rasmopoet and view video at http://www.youtube.com/user/dreadmo
- AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS
- Fame Awards best stage Performer
Arts Council oof Greater New Haven Arts Awards 2006 Revoutionary Visionary
- ALBUMS/SINGLES PRODUCED
- Pa Ni Pwoblem Single 1985
Tanbou Lanmou 1987
Melting Pot Single1988
Wey Dey Gone Single 1988
Tjebe/Hold On Cd 1996
- FUTURE CONCERTS
- Calgary Spoken Word Festival 8:00 PM April 25th ,2008 ,MC & Performance. April 26 11:00 AM April 25th ,2008workshop.8:00 PM April 26 Performance
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Greetings All
We hope that you had a productive week.
This week our featured member is DJ PHaT-TRaXX,:a remix DJ producer. Check out his profile here on the revamped, DIABLOTIN MUSIC , or surf his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/djphattraxx2. to hear selections of his work on offer either site.
Today too, rising starlite, ATHENIA HENDERSON will be in the spotlight again: from 9pm to 11pm at the FONTANA'S BAR, 105 ELDRIDGE STREET, NEW YORK So if your're in that area, and can make it, go support our own.
From 12pm GMT, all our members are invited to tune in to
our the first international teleconference on our sisiter internet tv channel SUSSEXVIDEOSANDTELEVISION. Its going to be fun, we have interesting persons from Spain, Sweden, Australia, Holland, United Kingdom etc all signed up for the event. A SVTV player widget has also been posted on our front page to facilitate easy viewing from DIABLOTIN MUSIC.
While our membership continues to grow, we urge you to spread the word among your peers of the all the resources that we have here to share, all free an accessable to all.No advertising works better than word of mouth.
We have noticed that members are not taking the opportunity to start new group or join existing ones, posting songs and photographs, we would like to a lot more activity going on.
Before we go, We would just like to welcome our two latest members, Kedron Popo, and McCarthy Marie, that brings our membership to 37. By the end of the year we would like to see our stats shoot up to aout 200....no kidding. There are lots of Dominican musician at home and abroad that should be listed in our number.
A good idea is to post the badge widgets on your myspace page or any site that will allow html
Anyway, let's go out and make this week a super productive one.
Blessings
Albert and Tempie
ADMINSTRATORS
As each of you may well be aware , it’s been about a week since the launch of SVTV and DIABLOTIN TELEVISON, both are on-line internet 24/7 web cast live stream global video quality programming channels with a diverse selection of news, music, documentaries, interviews, etc appealing to a wide audience of viewers, compliments of Mogulus Studio Live Broadcast.
DIABLOTIN TELEVISION, specifically aimed at promoting Dominican Musicians and other relevant content for the betterment of development of Dominica’s nature and culture, but in order for us to achieve that goal we need your further participation. Those of you who have videos and/or those who would like their you tube videos to be continued to be included and featured need to express your continued desire of interest in participation in writing .
This will not in any way affect your copyright. This is simply a promotional service at no cost to you and of no monetary value to us. You are free to embed the channel(s) to any website that is HTML friendly in the course of promoting yourself. We are actively in the process of making plans in the 2009 New Year to produce our own in-house programs and to have regular live discussions where you will be able to join us with a web cam as Production Team Members in Tele-Conferencing.
This will allow us to further discuss issues such as: copyrights, showbiz, music, arranging and engineering, making music videos, opportunities on the internet for music and song writing, music competitions, interviews, previews, marketing your music, etc. All with the view of supporting each other in our quest. If this sounds like you, please respond in writing before Dec 31, 2008. After that date we will have no other alternative , without your permission , other than to remove your videos that were placed during our launch.
We wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Sincerely,
Albert and Tempie
Administrators
Great to link up, again!
Talk to you soon.
Keep on keeping on!
Diablotin Television is recruiting personnel to join its production team.
We are seeking: reporters, researches,videographers, local, regional and
international promoters.
You will have:
A desire to contribute voluntarily to a non- profit, social networking
site, television production service and record label, aimed at
promoting the music and culture of the Commonwealth of Dominica.
You will be:
Computer literate, an understanding of communicative skills, able to work independently with microsoft word, digital, audio and other internet applications.
Report on Dominican artistes/ musicans and their activities in your locality.
Attend their gigs, concerts and press conferences with the view of producing news stories and features to be used in our broadcasts and newsletters etc.
All vacancies at the moment are on a voluntary and freelance basis. However, positions will be filled on a first come first served basis.
Applicants, regardless of their level of education, formal or informal, will be expected to grow with us, and to avail themselves of any in-house training as and when available.
Email your application to:
albert_tempie@yahoo.co.uk
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Athenia
Such a wonderful video highlighting this historic event, please supply us with more extracts.
This, flag raising ceremony and traditional cultural show will go a long way in keeping the country and people of Dominica in the minds of our North American brothers and sisters, as well as keeping generations of homeland Dominicans inspirited and uplifted .
You are such a hard worker, and it is portrayed so beautifully throughout all your work. You are a fine enthusiast in so many aspects of the cultural arts and we are all privileged to partake in you multi-level performance of drumming, dancing as well as your spoken word poetry.
Tempie and I are grateful that you shared this with us. Our congratulations to you , on receiving your honour from the Mayor of Connecticut, Bill Finc, saying, "...therefore be it resolved , that I, Bill Finc, Mayor of the City of Bridgeport, to hereby honour Delmance Ras Mo Moses, for exemplary service and extraordinary dedication to the welfare of the Dominican Community and should I also add, to the state of Connecticut..."
Our regards to all who helped with this wonderful event , including son many familiar faces such as, The Hon Minister Charles Savarin, Mayor Joseph, PM Skerritt, as well as familiar faces singing and dancing.
Blessings,
Albert and Tempie
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Your page looks nice. I love that dread picture as well. Always amazed to find out so much. To share in one of Albert's Chronicle articles, A Brief History of Theatre in Dominica,
by Albert Williams (The Chronicle - Sept 12/2003)
" ...Organizations like the Movement of Cultural Awareness (MCA), established by Delamance 'Ras Mo' Moses, Clement Richards, and Sobers Esprit pioneered a new form of theatre using the arts as a form for social change. They experimented with an art form they called 'performance poetry' that utilized drama and music, particularly drumming. Ras Mo travelled the island and the region to showcase the art form. Today, Ras Mo lives in the United States where he continues to be a cultural enthusiast..."
being born in the USA and know the different attitudes my question is, since then 2003 to now 2008, in your opinion what is the overal attitude in the USA compared to in Dominica to performance Poetry? This would be a great group to get started here , what do you think?
Sincerely,
Tempie
THIS A DREAD PHOTO
GREAT CONCEPT
ABSOLUTLY IRE
THE LINES OF PERSPECTIVE DRAG THE BEHOLDERS EYE RIGHT TO YOU AT THE HEART OF THE PHOTO, YOUR HANDS IN THE MEDITATIVE POSTURE TAUGHT TO US BY HIS IMPERIAL MAGESTY.
THE COCOA-BROWN COLOR SCHEME RANGING FROM DEEP BROWN TO SHADES OF LIGHTER BROWN CREAM AND WHITE, AGAIN, DO JUSTICE TO THE SUBJECT.
NO CAPTION IS MADE AVAILBLE WITH THIS AWARDABLE SHOT, BUT TO ME IT LOOKS AS IF IT IS THE BOTTM VIEW F A TREE UPROOTED DURING A WINDSTORM.
AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED MANY A WINDSTORM AND HURRICANE, AND I KNOW A TREE ROOT WHEN I SEE ONE.
ALL IN ALL, KUDOS FOR SHARING THIS WONDERFUL PICTURE WITH US.
TRUELY YOU ARE THE STEM, AND YOUR THRONE IS THE ROOTS.
ALBERT
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