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North
Beach Bandshell
7275 Collins Avenue,
Miami Beach FL 33141
Tickets are $25
advance each concerts / $30 at the door.
Children under 6
admitted free
call (305) 672-5202
The
Rhythm Foundation invites you on a
musical odyssey as they launch Seaside Sessions, live in Miami Beach throughout
January 2016. Seaside Sessions is a series of three concerts featuring
innovative jazz, international music, and fresh new sounds – all held at the
open air North Beach Bandshell in Miami Beach.
Saturday January 30th, 7pm – 11pm
DRKWAV featuring John Medeski, Adam Deitch and Skerik
Opening set by Aroze Troubadou
Artist Bios and Links
DRKWAV is led by John Medeski (keyboards), Skerik (saxophones) and Adam Deitch (drums). Medeski is known best as one third of Medeski Martin and Wood; Adam Deitch for his work with groups like Lettuce and Break Science; and Skerik as an iconoclastic innovator of ‘saxophonics’. The three master musicians have come together in DRKWAV – a delivery system for improv-heavy psychedelic fusions. Their sound is informed as much by the torqued jazz-rock of the early 1970s as by the dark ambient and drum ’n’ bass music of the early ’90s, while still pursuing an indeterminacy of style, anchored with cinematic overtures. True to its name, the trio revels in the pitch black, yet continually discover beauty and shed light through sonic exploration.
After his departure from the konpas band Bel Jazz in 2012, singer and guitarist Jean Levelt Vital and four young friends joined their instruments to create a troubadou (Haitian folk) band, Aroze Troubadou. In creole aroze means "to water" and, as their name suggests, Aroze waters the heart of their fans with a warming style of music, a mixture of ceremonial traditional rhythm, folk, and konpas beats.
Saturday
January 16th, 7pm – 11pm
Marco
Benevento
Special
guest: Brika
Since
he launched his solo career six years ago, Marco Benevento has built a studio
and co-founded the label that releases his music, The Royal Potato Family. And
as in the past, he’s written, arranged and played his largely instrumental
anthems, leading a band from behind his customized piano and a tiny armada of
drum machines and sequencers, keyboards and pedals. Now, Benevento has a new
trick – he has begun to feature his own vocals. ‘The singing door has opened,’
he says. ‘Singing is awesome.’
Brika
is a young chanteuse with classic trip-hop vocal inflection, poised to take
music lovers everywhere by storm. Born and raised in Miami in a home full of
eclectic musical influences, she released her debut CD in 2014, followed by
select live appearances across the US including a groundbreaking collaboration
with NuDeco Ensemble. Cryptic lyricism and stripped down production let her
natural gifts shine -- temperamental bursts of creativity, a daring sense of honesty,
and her amazing voice.
Saturday
January 23rd, 7pm – 11pm
Christian
Scott
Hailu
Mergia
Opening
set by Aaron Lebos Reality
Christian
Scott, the New Orleans-raised, Berklee-educated, Manhattan-based trumpeter’s
music is rooted in tradition but it is also part of the modern world, musically
and politically. Scott hangs on to what is still relevant in jazz’s legacy and
mixes it up with a bag of twists: hip hop, rock, ambient, funk, Afrorock and
the reassertion of jazz-as-protest. Scott is not the only young musician
traveling this road, but the music he is creating may be the most magnetic
around. Scott calls it “stretch music.”’ (All About Jazz review). Audiences
worldwide agree. Christian Scott is making major musical waves – he was the
break-out sensation at last year’s Jazz Fest.
Keyboard
and accordionist Hailu Mergia was a major star in 1970’s Ethiopia, presiding
over the country’s leading instrumental jazz ensemble Walias Band. In 1981
members of Walias including Hailu used the first ever US tour of an Ethiopian
music group to escape the dictatorial Mengistu regime. Since then Hailu has
been a resident of the DC area, spending most of his recent years as a cab
driver at the capital’s Dulles Airport and playing only privately. Enter Brian Shimkovitz
of Awesome Tapes From Africa, who came across “Hailu Mergia & His Classical
Instrument”, an obscure 1985 cassette, in a music store in Ethiopia, tracked
down the old maestro and reissued it. And voila! Hailu begins his comeback onto
festival stages worldwide.
Aaron
Lebos is a versatile guitarist born and raised in South Florida. Lebos
currently plays with some of the region’s biggest names - Nicole Henry, Tony
Succar and the Spam Allstars. He formed Reality in 2012, bringing together
friends like Eric England on bass, Jim Gasior on keyboards and Rodolfo Zuniga
on drums to stretch their musical boundaries and create fresh instrumental
music that crosses boundaries between jazz, rock and jam.
Seaside
Sessions is produced by The Rhythm Foundation and receives support from Atlantic
Broadband and City of Miami Beach.
ABOUT THE RHYTHM
FOUNDATION
The
Rhythm Foundation, a Miami Beach-based non-profit cultural organization, is a
leading presenter of world music in the US. It was founded in 1988 with the
goal of increasing international awareness through live music - concerts,
events and festivals by established and innovative artists from around the
world. Special focus is given to those cultures connecting to South Florida
audiences – music from Brazil, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe.
The range of programs covers music at the heart of global culture today to the traditional
music of the world. In 2015 the City of Miami Beach awarded management of the North
Beach Bandshell to the Rhythm Foundation, who are now creating exciting
year-round programming at this architectural gem.
ABOUT THE NORTH BEACH
BANDSHELL
The
North Beach Bandshell is a classic MiMo-era open-air amphitheater that anchors
the North Beach business district. Located at Collins Avenue and 73 Street, the
cultural facility is owned by the City of Miami Beach and operated by The
Rhythm Foundation, a Miami Beach-based non-profit cultural organization. The
Bandshell is an important and beloved work of Mid-Century Miami Modern (MiMo) architecture,
designed by renowned local architect Norman Giller in 1961. In its original heyday,
the unique structure hosted big band dance parties, roller skate nights, and
various community events – even broadcasts of the national “Mike Douglas Show.”
The City of Miami Beach renovated the facility in 2011. The updates were
seamlessly integrated into the classic architectural style, but included
increased production capabilities, an expanded stage, a new backstage area and
new lighting and audio equipment. The North Beach Bandshell programming fund
receives support from the City of Miami Beach, Terra Group, Boardwalk
Properties, Urban Resource, and Alfa Romeo & Fiat North Miami.
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