Rosalia de Cuba'S Band

Puerta Vieja presenta… Rosalía de Cuba
Es un placer que en Los Cabos podamos disfrutar de una exquisita cena, un hermoso atardecer y el estupendo show de Rosalía de Cuba; tres elementos que se combinan creando una experiencia agradable, única e ideal para compartir entre amigos y familiares. En esta temporada de fin de año, celebra en el Restaurante Puerta Vieja los mejores momentos. Reserva al 104 3252 / (624) 10 43334. El show se presenta los miércoles, viernes y domingos a partir de las 6:30 pm. Cabo Bello, CSL. ¡No te lo pierdas! - Familia y Cabo la revista

Dr. John; Nelly; Artist TBA; El Dia Latino presentando Juanes, Victor Manuelle, y mas!; Smokie Norful; G. Love & Special Sauce; ReBirth Brass Band; Tribute to Little Walter featuring Charlie Musselwhite, James Cotton, Jerry Portnoy, Carrie Bell and Jumpin' Johnny Sansone; Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Jazz Messengers Legacy Band with Benny Golson featuring Curtis Fuller; Campbell Brothers; Cyril Neville & the Uptown All-Stars; Irvin Mayfield & the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra; Ba Cissoko of Guinea; the Iguanas; BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet; Chris Thomas King; Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen; Swamp Pop Summit with Phil Phillips, King Karl, Warren Storm, Tommy McLain, and C.C. Adcock; Rosalia de Cuba; Big Chief Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias Mardi Gras Indians; Sista Teedy & umami; NewBirth Brass Band; Carlos Nakai; Hackberry Ramblers & Friends; Trombone Woodshed featuring Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews and Curtis Fuller; Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys; Bob French & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band; Luther Kent & Trickbag; Danza; Hot 8 Brass Band; Almas Gemelas; Balfa Toujours; Tyronne Foster & the Arc Singers; Don Vappie & the Creole Jazz Serenaders; Leigh Harris; Ingrid Lucia; Alvin Batiste; Lance Ellis; Brotherhood of Groove; Rockin' Jake Band; Jeff & Vida; Lil' Freddie King Blues Band; Native Nation Intertribal; 007; the Johnson Extension; Mighty Chariots of Fire; Otis Joseph & Zamar; Hot Club of New Orleans; Tribute to Frog Joseph; Furious Five Social Aid and Pleasure Club; Raymond Wiliams; Michaela y Fiesta Flamenca; Uptowner Hobo Clowns Social Aid and Pleasure Club; PinStripe Brass Band; Black Feathers Mardi Gras Indians; John Lee & the Heralds of Christ; Voices of Distinction; Roy Roget & the Sons of the Bayouneers; Olympia Aide; Divine Ladies and Untouchables Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs; Dimensions of Faith, Ninth Ward Hunters Mardi Gras Indians; Unstoppable Gospel Singers; Electro Rock with Adam Jupiter and Ray McCadney; Kayla Woodson; Basin Street Sheiks - Sunday, April 24

Collaboration is the star of the 15th annual Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival, which kicks off Wednesday with a UTB-TSC Performing Arts Center concert by internationally acclaimed jazz singer and pianist Carol Welsman, whose performance also marks the second event of the 2011-12 UTB Signature Series.
Welsman’s Brownsville appearance is the result of the Arts Center’s collaboration with the nonprofit Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts, which produces the jazz festival each year. The evening officially kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with the fruits of another collaboration: "Tiempo de Danzón," an exhibition of photographs by Cristina Kahlo, great-niece of legendary artist Frida Kahlo, that chronicles Afro-Cuban influenced Latin dance styles of Mexico City’s historic dancehalls.

Wednesday night’s attendees are invited to meet and chat with Kahlo, the Jazz Festival’s guest of honor, whose collection will travel to different venues during the festival. At 7 p.m. on Thursday, the second night of the festival, Brownsville Living will host Kahlo and her photos upstairs at the historic Fernandez Building at East 12th and Adams. A free outdoor jazz concert, a repeat from last year’s festival, starts at 8 p.m. on Adams Street and ends sometime before midnight. The UTB One O’Clock Jazz Band opens the show, which will also include Clay Moore and the Frontera Jazz Quartet in a tribute to Chick Corea. On Friday, Shenanigan’s Irish Pub, 2451 Pablo Kisel Blvd., will host another free outdoor concert, which kicks off with Cuban piano virtuoso and Grammy nominee Chuchito Valdés and follows with the Cuban group Guajíro Catorce.
Ramirez said Saturday’s concert, "Night at the Copa Reunion with Henry Brun" at Jacob Brown Auditorium, is likely to be the festival’s high-water mark. San Antonio-based, Grammy-winning percussionist Brun and his band, the Latin Playerz, will host a reunion of festival veterans, including "Master of the Tumbadoras" Chembo Corniel, José Dávila on trombone, vocalist Frankie Vasquez of the Tito Puente Orchestra (the late Tito Puente appeared at the first Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival) and guest appearances by Rosalía de Cuba and Chuchito Valdés.
"The show that I expect to blow out everything else is really going to be Henry Brun at Jacob Brown," Ramirez said.

"It’s going to be really cool because you’ll see the jazz, Latin jazz and salsa all in one show," he said. "It’s going to raise the roof. That’s for sure."
Sunday will close out the festival with a free outdoor "grand reunion jam" at the Capitol Theater, East 11th and Levee, from 2 to 10 p.m. The lineup includes the UTBA Salsa Band, UTB’s Marimbalacrán marimba ensemble, the SPI Steel Pan Band, Rio Grande Valley jazz veteran Rene Sandoval with bluesman Emilio Crixell, the Brownsville Samba School, The Brew, international salsa dance champions, and Valley salsa group Aché backing Rosalia de Cuba. - By STEVE CLARK/The Brownsville Herald

Latin Jazz Festival begins
Feel the rhythm this weekend in Brownsville
By Leslie Williams-Dennis

Get your dancing shoes ready.

Those looking for an all-out celebration will not have to go far this week, the 11th annual Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival starts tonight.

Produced by the Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts, the event, which began in 1997, has grown into a four-day celebration of dancing, food, entertainment, and artwork.

“One of our biggest accomplishments is that we’ve helped shed most everybody’s inhibitions about dancing,” said George Ramirez, the society’s president. “I’m up on stage looking down on the street and it’s just like this big mass of dancers as far as you can see. It’s just incredible.”

“This is the only jazz festival in the whole Rio Grande Valley,” added Ramirez. “Every body loves it of all ages, little viejitos, they’re dancing to music that they use to dance to when they were young — mambos and rumbas and things. It’s gotten more diversified and there’s a demand for everything now.”

Kicking off this year’s festivities is a free Thursday night celebration at Gazpacho’s restaurant in Brownsville featuring performances by four local Jazz groups as well as a display of artwork. The event, designed to give local musicians and artists an opportunity to showcase their work, is expected to attract an audience of more than 1,000 people.

On Friday night, the tables turn to Jacob Brown Auditorium in Brownsville where the band, Rosalia de Cuba will perform an array of Latin Jazz and traditional Cuban music featuring Son, Guaracha, Bolero, Danzón, and other types of international rhythms. The performance will coincide with an evening of salsa dancing performances from dance groups from Mexico, San Antonio, Corpus Christi and Laredo. There will also be a local competition where amateur dancers pair up with professional dancers from the group, Sabor Vallero.

The festivities continue on Saturday night, with a performance from Plena Libre, a 14-piece orchestra from Puerto Rico as well as the local music group, The Brew. In the second round of the Salsa dancing competition, participants will be judged on such criteria as visual presentation, showmanship, couple interaction, execution of choreography, and audience projection and response.

While all of the events at the festival draw large crowds, the most popular event is the Capitol Theatre Street Party on Sunday. Throughout the day, nine groups will perform including the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College jazz bands and Latin jazz ensembles as well as the Los Angeles-based group, Ricardo Lemvo y Makina Loca.

Although the events are fun to attend, the sole purpose of the festival is to bring attention to the organization’s efforts to revitalize downtown Brownsville, said Ramirez, with the Capitol Theatre being the nucleus of the venture. In all, 16 to 18 acts will perform at the festival, including 100 musicians and 30 dancers on Sunday night alone. Many of the acts will be performed on a new city-owned mobile stage that is 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep and includes a many types of sound and lighting equipment. Throughout the four-day festival, he added, an estimated three to six thousand visitors will attend the festivities.

“One of our biggest accomplishments is that we’ve helped shed most everybody’s inhibitions about dancing,” Ramirez said. “I’m up on stage looking down on the street and it’s just like this big mass of dancers as far as you can see. It’s just incredible.”

The festival draws huge crowds, Ramirez pointed out, especially Latin Dance night, the number one dance event of the year in the Rio Grande Valley. The entire event carries a budget of around $80,000, and was financed through local sponsors as well as a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Texas Commission for the Arts. Although the organization is hoping to simply break even with the venture, his main focus continues to be providing an outlet and a living for performers.

“There are tons of music festivals but we’ve gone out of our way to maintain this a Jazz festival and especially a Latin Jazz festival,” Ramirez said. “These are world-class entertainers that we bring. Every year it gets a little bit bigger.”

ldennis@brownsvilleherald.com - Brownsville Herald

Sábado 21 de abril, 2012
Hermosillo, Sonora

El día de hoy en rueda de prensa presentaron la edición número diez de las Fiestas del Pitic en Hermosillo.

“Las Fiestas del Pitic están de 10? es el slogan de las ya tradicionales fiestas de Hermosillo y se relizarán del 24 al 27 de mayo.

Fue el Licenciado Alberto Névarez, Presidente del Comité organizador de las Fiestas del Pitic el encargado de dar conocer el tan esperado programa.

Las actividades iniciarán desde las 5 de la tardes hasta la medianoche, y habrá hasta 15 espectáculos diarios.

En los conciertos de Noches de Cabaret destacan las presentaciones de: Kika Edgar, Nortec, Celso Piña y Rosalía de Cuba.

Armando Manzanero, Lila Downs, Fernando de la Mora y Pablo Milanés acompañado de Omara Portuondo, encabezarán las Noches de Gala. - http://www.radioplay.com.mx

Alois Fuchs. Dem ausklingenden Sommer noch einmal tropische Atmosphäre abgewinnen, war das Ziel bei der Open Air Veranstaltung in Rückl`s Wia z`haus in Bürmoos/Zehmemoos am 25. August. Das cubanische “Temperamentzäpfchen” ROSALIA de CUBA mit ihrer Band spielte cubanische und südamerikanische Musik, und die vom Feinsten.
Nur “Karibikfieber” wollte am Anfang nicht so recht aufkommen, nun ja, das Publikum kam ja schließlich vom 48. Nördlichen Breitengrad und es bedurfte zahlreicher Latino-Stücke um die Temperaturen und das Temperament steigen zu lassen. Den Aufforderungen Rosalias, mit erotischen Verrenkungen verbunden, konnten schließlich die wenigsten widerstehen und bald war auf der Bühne kein Platz mehr für die Sängerin. Diese wurde von den zahlreichen Tänzerinnen und Tänzern aus dem Publikum mit Salza, Merenge und Manbo zum Viebrieren gebracht. Auf alle Fälle ein musikalisches Erlebnis der Extraklasse mit Seltenheitswert in weiter Umgebung.
To give the ending summer tropical atmosphere was the purpose of the open air event on August 25th at Rückl’s Wia z’haus in Bürmoos/Zehmemoos. The Cuban singer Rosalia de Cuba and band showed temperament and vivacity by playing Cuban and South-American music in an excellent way. Only the audience needed some time to get into the “tropical fever”. Maybe because they came from the northern hemisphere. They needed a lot of Latin music to high up temperature and temperament. But hardly anyone could resist Rosalia’s encouragement, mixed with erotic gestures and soon there was no room left on stage for Rosalia. A large number of dancers out of the audience made the stage vibrate by dancing salsa, merenge and mambo. It was in fact a first-rate event with scarcity value round Bürmoos. - Dorf Zeitung .Karl Traintinger