Documents from Gilberto Gil's Private Archive

NIGHT LIFE QUIET STORM The Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil has been a protest singer, an exile, and a government official THE NEW YORKER THE STYLE ISSUE MARCH 19, 2007 (he's currently the minister of culture), but before now he's never embarked upon a solo tour. He's at Carnegie Hall this week to support his retrospective acoustic release, "Gil Luminoso." (See page 32.) CARNEGIE HALL 57th St. at Seventh Ave. (212-247-7800)—March 17: The Chieftains. It wouldn't be St. Patrick's Day without a visit from Ireland's musical ambassadors. From their late-fifties work as members of Sean O'Riada's visionary ensemble Ceoltoiri Chualann to the years of collaboration with the likes of Van Morrison, James Galway, and Mick Jagger, these instrumental wizards have been doing for tradi- tional Irish music what Bill Monroe did for the rural American string band-treating it with a re spect that lifts it well above any salt-of-the-earth sentimentality, March 20: The legendary Brazilian songwriter Gilberto Gil settles in for a solo acous- tic show. He'll be performing renditions of music from throughout his career, which stretches back to the late-sixties tropicalia movement, as he does on his latest U.S. release, "Gil Luminoso."