[Antiracism] 2nd Annual Pioneer Valley Latin Jazz Festival Saturday, August 23, 2008

[Eduardo Suarez]

    Dear friends,

I write to cordially invite all of you to join us for a summer celebration at Nuestras Raices farm (La Finca) on Saturday, August 23rd to the 2nd Annual PV Latin Jazz Festival.  I hope that you can come and invite your friends to attend.  Join many others that will come from different communities of the Connecticut River Valley and beyond.

We encourage all of you to visit http://www.pvlatinjazz.com for more information of the festival; http://www.ride-buzz.org to share a ride; if you're visiting the Valley for the first time please visit http://www.amherstarea.com, http://www.myonlinechamber.com/our-region.html.  If you plan to spend some time in the Valley we recommend that you stay at the Holyoke Holiday Inn (http://www.hiholyoke.com), which is 15 minutes away from Springfield and Northampton, and about 25 minutes to Amherst.  In Amherst and Northampton eat at La Veracruzana (http://www.laveracruzana.com).

Sincerely,

Eduardo
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    2nd Annual Pioneer Valley Latin Jazz Festival
        AUGUST 23, 2008. Rain or Shine at La Finca/Nuestras Raices Farm, Holyoke, MA. (on Main Street, Close to Rt. 5)
        Site opens at 11 AM. Music begins at 12 noon.
        Visit our website for directions and updates. http://www.pvlatinjazz.com
      
        
        Music, as a universal language can bring together cultures and generations in celebration and appreciation.  On Saturday, August 23, 2008Centro
de Artes (CENA), a community collaborative project, and producers
Eduardo Suarez and Yvonne Mendez present the 2nd Annual Pioneer Valley
Latin Jazz Festival.This
year's performers encompass the spectrum of Latin Jazz ranging from
West African, Caribbean, and Andean sounds.  Headlining the event is ARTURO O'FARRILL,
resident performer at the famed Birdland nightclub in New York City.
Other performers include guitarist and virtuoso Cuatro player JOSE GONZALEZ; MARKAMUSIC the
multi-national ensemble performing Latin music deeply rooted within
folkloric, popular and traditional genres of Latin America, the
Caribbean and South American Andean regions; the group CIDADE using
the sound of violin and nylon string guitar, and instruments with a
long tradition in Latin American music, playing tangos for dancing and
tangos for listening from Argentina, bossa nova from Brazil and Latin
jazz standards from Cuba and Puerto Rico, etc.; and CONJUNTO DE BOMBA,
An Afro-Puerto Rican Ensemble of local youth and adults presenting the
sacred drum/dance and diverse styles of Bomba including street Bomba. ADMISSION: $10-Adults; $ 5-children [Children 5 and under are free.]
    Sliding scale and family rates availableContact us: pvlatinjazz at gmail.com; 413-687-8049 or 413-218-1353. 

..if you have come...to help me, you're wasting your time... But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.. Aboriginal activists, Queensland, Australia 1970's


Eduardo Suárez

P. O. Box 3462
Amherst, MA 01004-3462
413-253-0297
cell-335-6224
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