Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 7:30 pm Crossroads Music presents:
Venissa Santí Cuban jazz and folkloric song "A knack for making the unexpected so welcome, so understood. A testament to the art of blending old and new." - Rebeca Mauleón Joanna Pascale Jazz vocalist "Stunning, sophisticated and extremely soulful" - Philadelphia Weekly At Calvary United Methodist Church, 801 S. 48th Street (at Baltimore Avenue) Venissa Santi inherited her musical passion from her grandfather, the Cuban composer Jacobo Ros Capablanca. She studied classical and jazz vocal technique at the University of the Arts and has made five trips to Cuba to study ocha (Afro-Cuban religious music) and rumba with master singers in Havana and Matanzas. In Philadelphia, she has also studied piano and percussion and teaches at the Asociación de Músicos Latino Americanos, a community music school in North Philadelphia. In 2008, she received a prestigious Pew Fellowship in folk and traditional arts. Since emerging onto Philadelphia’s jazz scene, Joanna Pascalehas established herself as a compelling and skilled vocalist. She has a working repertoire of over four hundred songs and has appeared and recorded with jazz giants such as Terell Stafford, Tim Warfield, Mickey Roker, Cyrus Chestnut and others. She is also a member of the vocal faculty at Temple University, teaches private voice and ensemble lessons, and conducts performance practices and workshops. Her working band includes Tim Warfield, saxophones; Andrew Adair, piano; Madison Rast, bass; and drummer Dan Monaghan. Tickets and more information at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=2625 -- Upcoming concerts at Crossorads Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 7:30 pm Rhinoceri Trio, Jazz piano trio Diane Monroe, Classical violinist, crossover and jazz artist Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 7:30 pm Enchanté, Cabaret français Oscuro Quintet, Classic and contemporary tango Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm Naomi Sato, Sho (Japanese mouth-organ) Naoko Kikuchi, Koto Ralph Samuelson, Shakuhachi (end-blown flute) Kaoru Watanabe, Nohkan (transverse flute) Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 7:30 pm Lotus Ensemble, Epic throat-singing and dazzling folk dances from Kalmykia Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm Umalali, The Garifuna Women's Project Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm Shahid Parvez Khan, Among the finest sitar players alive today Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm Petar Ralchev, Accordion: "The Mozart of Bulgarian folk music." Tickets and more information at http:// www.crossroadsconcerts.org -- Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund and by our members, donors, and program book advertisers. You can contribute at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=2336 This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administred in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
