In Concert
Sofrito and the Blues
with Carmen Cancél
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 7 PM
$20 general, $22 door, $25 priority seating in first 3 rows
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Experience Carmen Cancél and enjoy her stunning soprano voice, this time as part of a Latin Quartet Sofrito and the Blues as they stop in Verde Valley for one night only.
Carmen Elisa Cancél and her Latin Consortium (Sofrito and the Blues) have entertained audiences in New York City at the Voices of the Diaspora Festival. This hot new quartet features fresh, original arrangements of Latin, jazz, and blues standards. You will enjoy their personal stories that relate to their song repertoire and original arrangements, and be introduced to unexplored Latin, jazz, and blues tunes. The band is composed of Carmen Elisa Cancél on lead vocals, Jainardo Batista on percussion and background vocals, César Orozco on piano and background vocals, and Juancho Herrera on guitar.
Artist Bios
Carmen Elisa Cancél - Hailed as a singer possessing a “crystalline timbre and intense acting ability,” (L'Arena, Verona, Italy) Puerto Rican soprano, Carmen Elisa Cancél, received high praise for her performances as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Puccini's Suor Angelica, Mrs. Fiorentino in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, Musetta in La Bohème, and as Donna Elvira with the Operafestival di Roma production of Don Giovanni at the Palazzo della Sapienza in Rome. As a crossover artist, Ms. Cancél has used her classical training to excel in a variety of genres including Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and Latin music. Her singing has taken her throughout the US and to Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Mexico, and her native Puerto Rico.
Jainardo Batista - Puerto Rican singer and percussionist Jainardo Batista comes from a family with a long tradition in music and theater in Puerto Rico. Since arriving in New York City (1993) he has been involved in the music scene, collaborating with rumberos, soneros, and salseros. In 1994 he became heavily involved in Cuban son, a synthesis of African and Spanish styles widely considered to be Cuba's national music. Over the years he also developed deep ties to traditional Puerto Rican bomba, plena, salsa, rumba, and timba. He has performed Cuban music with many groups in New York City and internationally. These groups include Latin Jazz quartet JazzSabroson with tours as Jazz Ambassadors of Lincoln Center to Central and Northwest Africa (2006) and South America and the Caribbean (2003); Jerusalem Jazz Festival (2017) with Roman Díaz and Grupo Agolona; Essaouira (Morocco) Gnawa Festival (2012) with Colette Michaan's Querencia; and Grammy-nominated Raíces Habaneras (2003) at New York's Town Hall. Jainardo maintains an active performance schedule in New York City.
César Orozco is a prolific Cuban/Venezuelan pianist, violinist, composer, arranger, producer, and educator. After developing an important career in Venezuela, Mr. Orozco moved to the United States in 2012 and enrolled with a full tuition Assistantship to The Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he earned a Graduate Performance Diploma (GPD) in 2014. Since relocating to the New York tri-state area in 2015, Mr. Orozco has become an in-demand pianist as a sideman as well as a leader of his own projects. Some of the artists he has worked with include Paquito D’Rivera, Pedrito Martinez, Gary Thomas, Yosvany Terry, Flavio Sala, Luisito Quintero, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Luis Enrique, Itai Kriss, Troy Roberts, Paul Bollenback, Jeremy Warren, and Giovanni Hidalgo just to name a few.
Juancho Herrera - Latin Grammy nominee producer, singer-songwriter and guitarist, Juancho Herrera is part of a wave of extraordinary Latin American musicians who’ve transformed the New York music scene in recent decades. He’s carved out a singular path with a highly personal synthesis of jazz and South American sounds. Herrera has been an essential collaborator with some of the era’s definitive voices in jazz and world music, such as Claudia Acuña, Marta Gomez, Lila Downs, and Sofia Rei. He’s performed and recorded with international heavyweights such as Mercedes Sosa, The Chieftains, Branford Marsalis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Arturo O’Farrill, Alejandro Sanz, and Idan Raichel.
Don’t miss this hot new quartet featuring fresh, original arrangements of Latin, jazz, and blues standards.
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