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"Watina" from Watina (Cumbancha)
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"Baba" from Watina (Cumbancha)
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-by Ben Sisario

Mr. Palacio, from Belize, is devoted to preserving the Garifuna music of Central America, a sweet but densely percussive dance style full of call-and-response vocals whose origins are traceable to a group of African slaves who escaped two 17th-century Spanish shipwrecks. At noon, BAM Rhythm & Blues Festival, MetroTech Commons Plaza, Flatbush Avenue and Myrtle Street, downtown Brooklyn, (718) 636-4100, bam.org; free. At 9 p.m., S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick Street, at Houston Street, South Village, (212) 243-4940, sobs.com; $25 in advance, $28 at the door. (Sisario) 06/22/07 >> go there
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