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Date:
Monday, March 2
Time:
7:00 PM
Advance Ticket:
$58.28
Advance Member Ticket:
$52.50
Door Ticket:
$63.00
Student Ticket:
$31.50
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Kuumbwa Jazz Presents

Omar Sosa & Yilian Cañizares – AGUAS Trio feat. Gustavo Ovalles

SOLD OUT!
6:00 PM
All Ages
Café Kuumbwa
THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT - TICKETS ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE AT THE DOOR. Advanced Dinner Special sales have ended. Dinner Specials can be purchased at the counter (subject to availability). Meat or veggie chili will be available to purchase at the counter. Please click the 'Café Kuumbwa' button above for more information. Thank you!

Dinner Special:
Herb Roasted Chicken
with Green Sauce & Creamy Polenta
House Salad
Baguette
*meat or veggie chili will be available to order at the counter

Composer-pianist-bandleader Omar Sosa is one of the most versatile jazz artists on the scene today. True to his Afro-Cuban origins, Sosa fashions a spirited vision of uncompromising artistic generosity that embraces humanity at large. Nominated for seven GRAMMY awards and twice for the BBC World Music Awards, Sosa received a lifetime achievement award from the Smithsonian Associates in Washington, DC in 2003 for his contribution to the development of Latin jazz in the United States.

Yilian Cañizares is one of the most captivating violinists, singers, and composers on today’s contemporary music scene. Without ever losing connection with her roots, she masterfully fuses jazz, classical music, and Afro-Cuban rhythms, all carried by a voice that seems to come from another world. Few artists, whether on stage or in the studio, possess the level of virtuosity, charisma, and versatility that defines Cañizares – seamlessly blending the technical rigor of classical violin, the expressive freedom of jazz, and the rich sonic palette of her native Havana, Cuba.

Omar Sosa & Yilian Cañizares’ AGUAS Trio came together with their 2018 recording Aguas. Mixing Afro-Cuban, western classical music, and jazz, Aguas is a beautiful and inventive recording and touring project. The recording is dedicated to Water, and especially to Oshun, the Goddess of Love and Mistress of Rivers in the Lucumí tradition of Yoruba ancestry known in Cuba as Santería – a spiritual practice important to both artists. As water is synonymous with life, and energy, and strength, and space, the music on the album is inspired by the important influences of water – its hidden powers, its infinite transmutations, and its relentless destruction and creation.

Omar Sosa Website
Yilian Cañizares Website
(Ticket Includes 5% City of Santa Cruz Admission Tax)

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