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 As it has done in the past,Harbourront Centre is onceagain dedicating two week-ends to mark Black History Month.

“Te Black in History week-end (Feb. 5-6) commemoratesboth the history and the utureo black culture, while the Car-

nival on Mas weekend (Feb.12-13) celebrates the art, his-tory and energy o Caribbeanculture,” the Centre says.

Tis weekend’s music high-lights include perormancesby local neo-soul group Jame-sking, Natasha Waterman —

 who’ll be singing songs romher Long Road disc, and Pabloerry y Sol de Cuba.

Jamesking is at the Brig-antine Room tomorrow at 3,

 Waterman does an acousticset at the Studio Teatre Sun-

day at 2:30, and erry’s at theLakeside errace Sunday at 6p.m.

Teir shows will be comple-

mented with dance perorm-ances, flms, panel discussions,exhibits and amily activities.

F o r d e t a i l s , v i s i t h a r -bourrontcentre.com, or call416-973-4000.

Over at he Gladstone,there’ll be a ree show every Friday night to mark Black History Month.

Blandine, who was bornin the Democratic Repub-lic o Congo and raised here,

 will show o her pipes Friday night. Her debut CD will be

released later this year. 1214Queen St. W. For more ino,call (416) 531-4635.

BLUE MAGIC: Tey’re helping tokeep the blues alive in the Great

 White North and that’s why twoorontonians will be collect-ing two prestigious awards inMemphis this weekend.

Te Keeping Te Blues Aliveawards ceremony is organ-ized by he Blues Founda-

tion, whose mission is to pre-serve and promote the blues.Each year it hands out awardsto individuals and organiza-tions whose work mirrors itsmandate.

Congratulations to MakoFunasaka — who’s being rec-ognized or his work in ilm,television and video — and to

 Andrew Galloway, whose Elec-tro-Fi label has been awardedBlues Label o the Year.

“I was quite stunned whenI received the news rom Jay 

Sieleman o the Blues Foun-dation,” Funasaka says. “I’mnot even sure i I asked him

 why I was lucky enough to bechosen, to tell you the truth.I know I was nominated atleast once beore when I was

 working on my Talkin’ BluesV series, but in my shock o hearing the news I don’t think he specifed the actual reason

 why I was chosen this year.”

For the last 10 years, Funa-saka has been travelling the world to record interviewsand perormances by a vari-ety o blues personalities,beore editing those conver-sations to create videos, pod-casts and broadcast material.he result, Talkin’ Blues, is a39-part series examining thecurrent state o blues music,documenting the stories andthe passion behind the music.he series was syndicatedon Bravo! Canada and also

appeared on BE Jazz.In addition, Funasaka con-

tinues to produce video pod-

casts (37 and counting) avail-able on iunes, eaturing per-ormances and conversations

 with international and localbluesicians.

Funasaka eels that Gallo- way is equally surprised andhumbled by the honour.

“He certainly deserves it

or all the great work he doesin the blues,” Funasaka says.“I just know that this occa-sion means even more to mebecause I get to share this withmy best riend in the blues —and the person who has prob-ably taught me more about theblues and the blues businessthan anyone else out there.”

 Windsor’s Canada SouthBlues Museum will also col-lect an award in the HistoricalPreservation category.

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