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Vocalist/Guitarist Juancho Herrera started his musical journey with the influence of his native Venezuelan music tradition. After a successful period performing professionally in his home country, he traveled to the U.S. in 1993 to study at Berklee College of Music and has remained in the country ever since.

Herrera has collaborated with numerous notable artists, including Claudia Acuña, Marta Gomez, Lila Downs, Sofia Rei, Mercedes Sosa, Idan Raichel, and many others. He has performed at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Shibuya Koukaido, Centro Cultural Corp-Group and many other venues in 34 countries across the globe. ...

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Vocalist/Guitarist Juancho Herrera started his musical journey with the influence of his native Venezuelan music tradition. After a successful period performing professionally in his home country, he traveled to the U.S. in 1993 to study at Berklee College of Music and has remained in the country ever since.

Herrera has collaborated with numerous notable artists, including Claudia Acuña, Marta Gomez, Lila Downs, Sofia Rei, Mercedes Sosa, Idan Raichel, and many others. He has performed at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Shibuya Koukaido, Centro Cultural Corp-Group and many other venues in 34 countries across the globe.

Herrera has recorded several albums as a leader and sideman, including Buscando (2005) and his latest release Banda (2011), which includes collaborations with Anat Cohen, Jason Lindner, Claudia Acuña, Aquiles Baez, and more.

For this performance at the Jazz Gallery, he will be joined by long time collaborators and special guests:

Juancho Herrera: Guitar/Cuatro Vocals
Rafi Malkiel: Trombone
Ben Zwerin: Bass
Yayo Serka: Percussion

Sofia Tosello, special guest on vocals

The program for this evening will feature all new original compositions and new arrangements from Juancho Herrera's songbook and some traditional South American standards.

www.juanchoherrera.com
Twitter: @lagartcho

Video links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiCheW915VY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT-Q6KLU_Mc

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