* Attendance is limited, and registration is required to confirm your place. Only registered guests will be admitted.

Directed by:

BOBBY SANABRIA

Genre / Type of Show:

Concert

Language:

English

Duration:

03:00:00

Audience type:

General audience

Artists/Features:

James Baldwin Centennial, The music of another country

Featuring Bobby Sanabria & Cuarteto Ache with special guest Antoinette Montague

BOBBY SANABRIA & QUARTETO ACHÉ

> Bobby Sanabria – drums, percussion, vocals

> Peter Brainin – tenor, soprano saxophones, flute, vocals, percussion

> Silbano Monasterios – piano, vocals, percussion

> Donald Nicks – acoustic bass, vocals, percussion

Special guest, ANTOINETTE MONTAGUE

Synopsis:

James Baldwin Centennial, The music of another country

Featuring Bobby Sanabria & Cuarteto Ache with special guest Antoinette Montague

Legendary African-American writer and civil rights activist JAMES BALDWIN garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems which established him as a voice for human equality. Join multi-Grammy nominee BOBBY SANABRIA and his QUARTETO ACHÉ w/ special guest vocalist ANTOINETTE MONTAGUE as they celebrate his legacy and Black History Month by performing music Baldwin references in his book ANOTHER COUNTRY

About the Company:

> BOBBY SANABRIA & QUARTETO ACHÉ

> Bobby Sanabria – drums, percussion, vocals

> Peter Brainin – tenor, soprano saxophones, flute, vocals, percussion

> Silbano Monasterios – piano, vocals, percussion

> Donald Nicks – acoustic bass, vocals, percussion

With special guest:

ANTOINETTE MONTAGUE

> Hailing from the Great City of Newark, NJ Antoinette is an international recognized jazz and blues vocalist, educator, producer and promoter of events. Her early beginnings were singing in a gospel choir but her introduction to jazz was through her mother who sang like Ella Fitzgerald. Inspired by Nat King Cole, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, the Ink Spots, and the Motown Sound. A protege of Etta Jones her mentors have included Della Griffin Myrna Lake, Inez McClendon and others. Ms. Montague has performed with jazz luminaries Benny Powell, Wycliffe Gordon, Bobby Sanabria, Danny Mixon. Lisle Atkinson, Christian McBride, Red Jolloway, Frank Wess, Mulgrew Miller, Frank Wess, Mulgrew Miller, Winard Harper, Brenard Purdie, Warren Vaché, Bucky Pizzarelli, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and Band of Bones. She is a member and featured vocalist alongside Janis Siegel and Jennifer Jade Ledesna with the multi-Grammy nominated Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band in the group’s 2023 Grammy nominated VOX HUMANA release.

Regarding the director

BOBBY SANABRIA

> A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, documentary film producer, activist, radio host, writer, and multi-Grammy nominated as a leader, Bobby Sanabria is a native Nuyorican son of the South Bronx. His versatility as both a drummer and percussionist has become legendary. He’s performed and recorded with every major figure in the history of Latin jazz, jazz, and salsa, with such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Mongo Santamaria, Eddie Palmieri, Paquito D’Rivera, Candido, Charles McPherson, Larry Harlow, Ruben Blades, Celia Cruz, and the Father of Afro-Cuban jazz, Mario Bauzá as his drummer for 9 years touring and recording on his major Grammy nominated albums. He is the leader of Quarteto Aché, Sexteto Ibiano, Ascensión, and his Multiverse Big Band. His big band albums have all been nominated for Grammys for a total of nine, including?Afro-Cuban Dream: Live & In Clave!!!, Big Band Urban?FolkTales, Multiverse?(double Grammy nominated), and?West Side Story Reimagined?as well as his most recent Grammy nomination for VOX HUMANA with his Multiverse Big Band for the 2024 Grammys.