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Pablo Menéndez & Mezcla</span></b><b><span
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In concert</span></b><b><span
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A musical celebration of the indestructible bridge of
friendship
</span></b><b><span
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between the San Francisco Bay and Cuba!</span></b></font>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
align="center"><span style="font-size:
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New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Special guests include Bay Area’s
musical greats who
have dedicated their lives to this musical friendship – Barbara
Dane, John
Santos, John Calloway, Greg Landau, Walfredo de los Reyes, DJ
Leydis de Cuba,
Erick Barberìa, Yeni Valdès and many more!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
align="center"><span style="font-size:
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New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Plus the Bay Area premiere of<b> </b></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">David Sandoval's</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Calibri"> documentary film <i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Tan
Cerca... Tan Lejos / So Near... So Far</span></i><span
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">,</span></span><b><span
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</span></b><span
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color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">the life story of
Oakland born
musician Pablo Menéndez</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
align="center"><b><span style="font-size:
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New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Saturday,
October 14, 2017</span></b></p>
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</b>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
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mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Brava
Theater Center</span></b></p>
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</b>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
align="center"><b><span style="font-size:
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New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Tickets:<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>$25 –<span
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</span>$75 <span style="color:#222222"></span></span></b><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
align="center"><font size="+2"><b><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">6:30 | Pre-performance reception
w/DJ Leydis de Cuba</span></b></font></p>
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</b></font>
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text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
align="center"><font size="+2"><b><span style="font-size:
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New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">7:30 | Film Screening, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">So Near…So Far</i></span></b><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;
text-align:center;line-height:normal;background:white"
align="center"><font size="+2"><b><span style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">9pm | Live Concert, Pablo
Menéndez & Mezcla</span></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOgXOJq3sJQ"
target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1155CC">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOgXOJq3sJQ</span></a><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><a
href="http://www.cubamezcla.org/UPCOMING.html" target="_blank"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#1155CC">http://www.cubamezcla.org/UPCOMING.html</span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">At a critical juncture
in
US-International relations, Brava brings the Bay a musical
celebration of the
indestructible bridge of friendship between the San Francisco
Bay Area and Cuba.
Joining Oakland-born music legend Pablo Menéndez in a concert
are some of the
Bay Area ‘s musical giants.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">The recent Cuba/USA
documentary, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">So Near…so
far</i>, about the life of Pablo
Menéndez by the award-winning Cuban director Lourdes Prieto and
L.A. Chicano
David Sandoval, will have its Bay Area premiere at Brava Theater
Center.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The film follows
the life of Pablo – born
Paul in Oakland, CA, named after Paul Robeson – who arrived in
Cuba at age 14
to study music for a year. He ended up staying and becoming part
of the
soundtrack of Cuba as a member of such legendary bands Grupo de
Experminentacìon Sonora of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC), and
Sintesis. His
mother, legendary singer Barbara Dane, was the first public
person to defy the
State Department ban on travel to Cuba after the 1959 Revolution
and sang all
over the island, on televisions, newsreels and on the front page
of the
newspapers, making her a symbol of the possibilities of
friendship between the
US and Cuba.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">So Near…so far</i> reflects Pablo Menéndez’ journey
and his life story
as a “musical bridge” between the two countries. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">The screening will be
followed by a
concert featuring Menéndez’ world fusion Cuban band, Mezcla,
with special guests.
Mezcla mixes Afro-Cuban/Yoruba roots music, rumba, Cuban rock,
Cuban Jazz and
Cuban new song resisting the commerciality of being defined by
one style or
sound. With Mezcla, Pablo transforms a long and meaningful
artistic life into
spiritual richness – building on the strength of traditions
while continuing to
re-invent the future.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">For Calendar Editors:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Direct from Cuba –
Pablo Menéndez
& Mezcla In Concert; Bay Area premiere of documentary
film, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">So Near…So far</i></span></b></p>
<b>
</b>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Saturday, October
14, 2017, 6:30</span></b></p>
<b>
</b>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222"><span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>Brava Theater Center, 2781
24<sup>th</sup>
Street (at York), San Francisco 94110</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
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Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Tickets:<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>$25
–<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>$75 </span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">brava.org</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">About Pablo Menéndez
& Mezcla:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Pablo Menéndez is the
son of blues
and jazz singer Barbara Dane and the brother of Bay Area
Flamenco impresario
Nina Menéndez. He has lived in Cuba since 1966 and has been an
indelible part
of the Cuban music scene for the past five decades.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>He has participated in the
Nueva Trova
movement as part of the Groupo de Experimentaciòn Sonora with
Silvio Rodrìguez
and Palo Milanès; the jazz world with Sonido Contemporaneo at
the old Club Rio
alongside legendary pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and others; Afro
rock with the
group Sìntesis (with Carlos and Ele Alfonso) and more. On the
basis of this
rich experience, Menéndez founded Mezcla in 1989. He also
released a solo
project on Zoho Music entitled <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Havana
Blues Mambo</i>; and under the direction of Pablo Menèndez,
Mezcla has been a
part of the Cuban musical landscape for more than 30 years.
Mezcla brings
together several veteran masters with some of the best young
players on the
scene today.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>At home in
Cuba, they
perform regularly at Havana’s premiere jazz club La Zorra y el
Cuervo and at
the annual Havana Jazz Festival. Mezcla has issued nine
recordings with their
legendary 1993 release <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Cantos</i>
–
re-release in 2014 – featuring the late Làzaro Ros, one of
Cuba’s foremost
singers of Afro-Cuban Yoruba santerìa chants. Their CD <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Akimba!</i>, was pre-nominated for a Latin Grammy in
2002, and their
2010 release <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">I’ll See You
in C-U-B-A</i>
was nominated for the Best of Latin Jazz Awards as well as were
several of the
group’s soloists. In 2014, Mezcla released the live concert DVD
“Pablo Menendez
& Mezcla todos Estrellas del Jazz Cubano”; and in 2015 they
released the CD
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Pure Mezcla</i> recorded
live at Yoshi’s
jazz club in Oakland. Mezcla’s animated videoclip “See you in
C.U.B.A.”,
created by Juan Padròn and Ernesto Padròn, was a finalist in the
prestigious
Lucas Awards in 2016. Current band members are percussionist
Octavio Rodriguez,
violinist and pianist Christopher Simpson, bassist Ibanez
Hermida, drummer Ruy
Lopez Nuñez, and new members (first time in the US) Lien Diaz
and Yuko Fong</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Guest artists joining
the band from
Cuba:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Lien Diaz </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">is</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">
said
to be the hottest female rumba singer in Cuba right now, and has
an amazing background
of having been trained and worked as a doctor.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>She was part of the Afro-Rock band Sintesis, and is now
recording on
every major musical project taking place in Havana, from Team
Cuba (the now
deceased all–woman rumba project), to Eliades Ochoa’s latest
(with an all-star
cast of young jazz players). She has sung with Bonnie Raitt,
Brenda Russell,
Joan Osborne, and with Beth Nielsen Chapman in the movie <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Bridge to Havana</i>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Yuko Fong </span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">is a</span><span
style="font-size:
12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
New Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">n
amazing musician who came to Cuba 17 years ago from Tokyo to
study
Afro-Cuban dance and music at the University of the Arts in
Havana. She
has been living in Cuba since then, performing with such Super
Afro-Cuban bands
as Obini Bata and Rumberos de Cuba; performing and recording
with Super
“Son" bands such as Ignacio Piñero Septeto Nacional de Cuba; and
creating
bridges between the artistic culture of Japan and the musical
arts of Cuba. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>One of the
most “African” sounding music
Mezcla has ever recorded is a composition of Yuko’s based on a
traditional
Japanese poem about Mt. Fuji, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Moon in
the Mist</i>… or "Oboro Zuki Oh!”, where alongside her
wonderful
singing Mezcla percussionist Octavio Rodriguez sings Rumba in
Japanese.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">Special Bay Area
guests:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222">Barbara Dane</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">, a legendary folk,
blues and jazz
singer, was dubbed “Bessie Smith in stereo” by Playboy Magazine
jazz critic
Leonard Feather in the late 1950s. Time magazine called her
voice “pure, rich…rare
as a 20-karat diamond.” <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Born
in Detroit,
Dane moved to San Francisco in 1949 and became a popular singer
at clubs along
the Embarcadero, landing her first professional jazz job with
Turk Murphy at
the Tin Angel in 1956. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In
1961, she
opened her own club, Sugar Hill: Home of the Blues on San
Francisco’s Broadway,
presenting many great musicians including Jimmy Rushing, Mose
Allison, and Big
Mama Thornton. Throughout her career, Dane has worked with the
Chambers
Brothers, Earl Hines, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Memphis Slim, Willie
Dixon, Muddy
Waters and many others. She appeared on television on the Timex
Jazz show with
Louis Armstrong and was featured on Playboy After Dark,
receiving an award from
Hugh Hefner as one of the outstanding jazz artists of the year.
During all her
years singing blues and jazz, Barbara participated in the
movements for peace
and justice, civil rights and an end to the Vietnam war. She met
and performed
with Fannie Lou Hamer and in 1966, Barbara Dane became the first
U.S. Musician
to tour post-revolutionary Cuba. The impact on the Cuban public
was indelible
and she soon returned to take part in an international festival
where she met like-minded
singers from all over the world. This led to invitations to tour
Europe Mexico,
Nicaragua, the Far East and even North Vietnam as the war still
raged. In the
summer of 2016 – at age 89 – Barbara released a new recording, <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Throw It Away</i>, with a
trio led by
pianist Tammy Hall, offering new and original material.</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:red"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222">John Santos</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222"> is one of the Bay
Area’s best known
and loved musicians. He is a seven-time Grammy-nominated
percussionist, U.S. Artists
Fontanals Fellow, and from 2013-14 was the SFJazz Resident
Artistic
Director.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Born in San
Francisco, he is
one of the foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music in the world
today. A prolific
performer, composer, teacher, writer, radio programmer and
record/event
producer whose career has spanned four decades, John has
performed and/or
recorded with masters such as Cachao, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito
Puente, Bebo
Valdès, Max Roach, Bobby Hutchinson, John Handy – to name just a
few.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Calibri;color:#1D2129;background:white">John Calloway</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Calibri;color:#1D2129;background:white"> is a
multi-instrumentalist, composer
and arranger who has performed with renowned jazz artists Israel
Cachao Lopez,
Max Roach, Omar Sosa, Dizzy<span class="textexposedshow"> Gillespie,
Pete
Escovedo, Jesus Diaz, John Santos and Wayne Wallace. As a
faculty member
at San Francisco State University, John founded the
university’s Afro-Cuban
Ensemble, which has enjoyed wide acclaim and popularity for
many years. </span>His
recording credits as a performer and composer include his two CD
projects, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Diaspora</i>
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">The Code</i>, and longtime collaborations with John
Santos, Jesus Diaz
and Omar Sosa. Included in his recording and writing credits are
the Grammy
nominations given to “SF Bay” (2003) with the Machete Ensemble,
and Ritmo y
Candela (1996) and Ritmo y Candela II (1998), produced by Greg
Landau and
featuring Cuban percussionists Changuito, Patato, and Orestes
Vilato. He has
frequently traveled to Cuba as program coordinator for
PlazaCuba, an arts
company that offers courses in conjunction with the National
School of the Arts
in Havana, Cuba<span class="textexposedshow">.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>In 2012, the Jazz Journalists Association honored
Calloway as a “Jazz
Hero.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Greg Landau</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> is an award-winning
music/video producer,
educator, and music historian with a doctorate from UC San
Diego's prestigious
School of Communication. Over the last 20 years, he has produced
six Grammy
nominated CD's and among the over 50 CDs, numerous film sound
tracks and
videos. He has worked with renowned artists including: Carlos
"Patato" Valdez, Maldita Vecindad, Jerry Gonzalez, Kepa Junkera,
Buena Vista Social Club Producer Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, Susan
Baca, Bobi
Cespedes, Dr. Loco, Pete Seeger, Omar Sosa, John Santos, Pancho
Quinto, Quetzal,
Los Mocosos, Fuga!, Sambada, Manicato, John Calloway and David
Byrne's record
label Luaka Bop, Vanguard Records, Six Degrees and many others.
His musical
productions have been featured in films and television including
the new
Benjamin and Peter Bratt film, La Mission, The Other Barrio,
Oliver Stone's
Comandante, Survivor: Nicaragua, CSI Miami, The Family Guy,
Dexter, Burn
Notice, Nash Bridges, Punk', HBO's Hemingway and Gelhorn, and
several PBS
documentaries</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222">Walfredo de los Reyes, Jr</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">.
is a
Cuban American percussionist and educator. Dubbed an expert in
drum set and
auxiliary percussion, he has performed and recorded with
numerous bands and is
known as a long-term member of Santana. He is a current member
of the renowned
band Chicago and is the title character in the Phish song
“Walfredo.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222">DJ Leydis de Cuba</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
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Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">
was
born and raised in Cuba. Involved in the Cuban hip-hop movement
since its
inception, DJ Leydis helped organize some of Cuba’s most
respected events and
community programs. In 2005, she co-founded Omegas Kilay, a
hip-hop theater
collective in Havana. With her partner, DJ Yari, DJ Leydis
created the first all-female
DJ mixtape in Cuba. She has been a featured subject of the
critically acclaimed
documentaries such as Inventos: Hip Hop Cubanò, Jovenes Rebeldes
y Mi
Revolution. In 2006, DJ Leydis migrated, arriving to the U.S on
a small boat,
moving to the Bay Area to expand her work as a DJ. She has
performed with
Erykah Badu, ?uest Love, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and local hip hop
sensations Los
Rakas and Las Krudas. She returned to Cuba for the first time in
March of 2016.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222">Erick Barberia</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;
mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222">
is a
Cuban dancer singer and percussionist. He began his professional
career in the
Artistic Community Company Korimakao as a drummer, dancer,
actor, and as a
master teacher of dancing, singing, and Afro-Cuban percussion at
the Escuela
Internacional de las Artes in Havana. In the US, Barberia has
worked with many
musical greats including master guitarist Freddy Clarke and
Latin Jazz master Art
Jackson and John Calloway. In 2006, with his brother Dreiser
Durruthy, Erick
had the honor to record, in Cuba, with the great Chico Valdes
and his sister
Mayra Caridad Valdes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;background:white"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:#222222">Yeni Valdès</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ascii-font-family:
Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:#222222"> was born in Cuba and
graduated from
the Provincial School of the Arts. In Cuba, she performed with
the group “PG”
and NG la Banda, under the direction of maestro Josè Luis
Cortès. In 2001 she
joined the internationally known Cuban musical group, Los Van
Van and for 16
years was the female voice of the band. She left Los Van Van
earlier this year
to move permanently to the Bay Area where she has a husband and
has made a
home.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In June, she was
featured at the
Los Angeles Cuban-American Music Festival, her first solo
performance in the
US.</span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
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