Two Dance Shows On Saturday!

Rambleshoe is a collaboration between the dancers of Rhythm in Shoes of Ohio and the bluegrass boys of the North Carolina-based Red Clay Ramblers. Together, they bring music and movement that blends country, rock, Dixieland, bluegrass, blues and gospel with tap and clogging. The result, according to the Village Voice, is "really smart stuff." Rambleshoe is at 8 p.m. in Roberts Hall Auditorium at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave., Providence. Tickets are $26. Phone: 401-456-8144 or Visit their website

KALFOU in JAZZZING THE CROSSROADS Jazzzing the Crossroads is a praise song of music, dance, and word, reconnecting siblings of the African Diaspora: Haiti, Brasil, Cuba, and the U.S. The rhythms of Haitian Voodoo, Brazilian Candomble, Cuban Santeria, and African American Jazz carry roots of contemporary family realities. Kalfou is Brown University's Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble and features dance by Lynnette Freeman and Isabelle Kalubi, spoken word by Daveed Diggs and Jana Willinger and fuses these musical traditions, exploring spiritual struggles that prevent compassion and recognition; healing violent ruptures of dispersion, of Middle Passage, of familial loss, of continued daily assaults upon living African traditions in the New World. In a time of uncertainty and loss, Jazzzing the Crossroads envelopes the audience in a re/encounter of kinship and jubilation. At the Carriage House Theatre, 7 Duncan Ave Providence RI Saturday, April 26 at 8pm. Tickets are $10. For more info, call 401-831-9479 or Visit the website