Cafe Brazil Band - Live at Boreal Theater
Cafe Brazil Band - Live at Boreal Theater
Friday, July 19, 2024 (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM) (EDT)
Description
Take a trip to Brazil without leaving town, and help support live music in the local community. On Friday July 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm, Cafe Brazil Band will perform a concert of Brazilian jazz at the Boreal Theater in Millinocket ME. Cafe Brazil Band features Steven Silverstein, clarinet & alto saxophone, and Peter Griggs, guitar and vocals, performing a selection of Brazilian bossa nova, samba and choro music. Silverstein is a master clarinetist and wind instrument specialist with an amazing versatility on literally dozens of instruments. He has recorded numerous albums and film scores, performed with the Paul Winter Consort, the Adolphe Sax Saxophone Quartet and with orchestras and theater groups including the National State Orchestra of Slovakia and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Griggs is an accomplished musician who was based for many years in Dusseldorf Germany. He has presented some 600 solo guitar concerts throughout the USA, United Kingdom, Germany, a dozen other European countries and Brazil. Adept at the intricate rhythms of Brazilian music, he has composed numerous works for solo guitar, flute, percussion and chamber music ensembles. His work is recorded on Folkways Records, Music Of The World, CD Baby and Bandcamp. Cafe Brazil Band performs classic bossa nova, samba and Brazilian jazz by composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roberto “Baden Powell” de Aquino, Noel Rosa, Jorge Ben and Luiz Bonfa, along with several Griggs originals. You can hear Cafe Brazil Band here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FtqtliNz0&t=1s 'The way the chords are struck creates a reverberation like swaying leaves, wind and waves.' Laura Shimp, Prague Post Online The Boreal Theater is located at 215 Penobscot Avenue in Millinocket, Maine 04088. Admission for the concert is $15. For more information, call 207-560-5256 or visit: https://borealtheater.org
Boreal Theater
215 Penobscot Ave Suite C
Milinocket, ME 04462 United States
215 Penobscot Ave Suite C
Milinocket, ME 04462 United States
Friday, July 19, 2024 (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
(EDT)
Take a trip to Brazil without leaving town, and help support live music in the local community.
On Friday July 19, 2024 at 5:00 pm, Cafe Brazil Band will perform a concert of Brazilian jazz at the Boreal Theater in Millinocket ME. Cafe Brazil Band features Steven Silverstein, clarinet & alto saxophone, and Peter Griggs, guitar and vocals, performing a selection of Brazilian bossa nova, samba and choro music.
Silverstein is a master clarinetist and wind instrument specialist with an amazing versatility on literally dozens of instruments. He has recorded numerous albums and film scores, performed with the Paul Winter Consort, the Adolphe Sax Saxophone Quartet and with orchestras and theater groups including the National State Orchestra of Slovakia and the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Griggs is an accomplished musician who was based for many years in Dusseldorf Germany. He has presented some 600 solo guitar concerts throughout the USA, United Kingdom, Germany, a dozen other European countries and Brazil. Adept at the intricate rhythms of Brazilian music, he has composed numerous works for solo guitar, flute, percussion and chamber music ensembles. His work is recorded on Folkways Records, Music Of The World, CD Baby and Bandcamp.
Cafe Brazil Band performs classic bossa nova, samba and Brazilian jazz by composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roberto “Baden Powell” de Aquino, Noel Rosa, Jorge Ben and Luiz Bonfa, along with several Griggs originals.
You can hear Cafe Brazil Band here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FtqtliNz0&t=1s
"The way the chords are struck creates a reverberation like swaying leaves, wind and waves."
Laura Shimp, Prague Post Online
The Boreal Theater is located at 215 Penobscot Avenue in Millinocket, Maine 04088. Admission for the concert is $15. For more information, call 207-560-5256 or visit: https://borealtheater.org
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