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Rainforest Band

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The Rainforest Band is a jam band that spans several genres, including jazz, rock, world music, R&B, and funk. [1]

31 relations: Amazon basin, Badal Roy, Djembe, Earth Day, Flute, Funk, Grammy Award, Grateful Dead, Jam band, James Gurley, Jazz, Jerry Garcia, John Popper, Melvin Seals, Merl Saunders, MIDI, Mike Hinton, Muruga Booker, Nelson Kennedy Ledges State Park, Perry Robinson, Rainforest, Rainforest Action Network, Rhythm and blues, Rock music, Sikiru Adepoju, Starwood Festival, Steelpan, Steve Kimock, Talking drum, Tony Saunders (bassist), World music.

Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Badal Roy

Badal Roy (বাদল রায়; born Amarendra Roy Chowdhury) is a Bangladeshi tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist known for his work in jazz, world music, and experimental music.

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Djembe

A djembe or jembe (from Malinke jembe) is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet drum played with bare hands, originally from West Africa.

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Earth Day

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Jam band

A jam band is a musical group whose live albums and concerts relate to a fan culture that began in the 1960s with the Grateful Dead, and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts.

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James Gurley

James Martin Gurley (December 22, 1939 – December 20, 2009) was an American musician.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s.

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John Popper

John Popper (born March 29, 1967) is an American musician and songwriter.

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Melvin Seals

Melvin Seals (born 1953 in San Francisco, California) is an American musician, best known as a longtime member of the Jerry Garcia Band.

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Merl Saunders

Merl Saunders (February 14, 1934 – October 24, 2008) was an American multi-genre musician who played piano and keyboards, favoring the Hammond B-3 console organ.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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Mike Hinton

Michael David Hinton (May 4, 1956 – August 1, 2013) was an American guitarist, residing in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Muruga Booker

Steven Bookvich known as Muruga Booker (born December 27, 1942) is an American drummer, composer, inventor, artist, recording artist, and a priest in the Celtic Orthodox Church.

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Nelson Kennedy Ledges State Park

Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park is located in Nelson Township, Portage County, Ohio, United States.

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Perry Robinson

Perry Morris Robinson (born September 17, 1938) is an American jazz clarinetist and composer.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.

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Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is an environmental organization based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Sikiru Adepoju

Sikiru Adepoju is a percussionist and recording artist from Nigeria, primarily in the genres of traditional African music and world music.

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Starwood Festival

The Starwood Festival is a seven-day Neo-Pagan, New Age, multi-cultural and world music festival, taking place every July in the United States of America.

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Steelpan

Steelpans (also known as steel drums or pans, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steel band or orchestra) is a musical instrument originating from Trinidad and Tobago.

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Steve Kimock

Steve Kimock (born October 5, 1955) is an American rock guitarist who has spent most of his life around San Francisco.

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Talking drum

The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech.

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Tony Saunders (bassist)

Tony Saunders is an American bass player and synthesizer player in the genres of jazz, gospel, R&B, Pop and world music.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainforest_Band

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