Bronx Council on the Arts kicks off its BX1: Bronx Artist Festival
with Jazz at Hostos and the Bronx Museum on June 1st
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) kicks off its first-ever BX1: Bronx Artist Festival, an event geared to honor BCA’s past and present BRIO winners, with jazz performances that include Bronx art-ists Ray Vega, Desmar Guevara, Alma Micic and Roy Campbell. The BX1: Bronx Artist Festival 2005 will take place in a number of locations over a four-day period and culminate in a special awards presentation hon-oring former and current BRIO winners who have moved on to noteworthy careers.
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Bronx Council on the Arts kicks off its BX1: Bronx Artist Festival
with Jazz at Hostos and the Bronx Museum on June 1st
The Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) kicks off its first-ever BX1: Bronx Artist Festival, an event geared to honor BCA’s past and present BRIO winners, with jazz performances that include Bronx art-ists Ray Vega, Desmar Guevara, Alma Micic and Roy Campbell. The BX1: Bronx Artist Festival 2005 will take place in a number of locations over a four-day period and culminate in a special awards presentation hon-oring former and current BRIO winners who have moved on to noteworthy careers.
Two venues will feature jazz on June 1st. At 6:00pm, Hostos Community College’s Center for Arts & Culture presents An Evening of Words and Music featuring the Latin Jazz Sounds of Ray Vega and continuing with the poetry/theater ensemble Universes featuring Steve Sapp and Mildred Ruiz and Hip Hop performer and Spo-ken Word artist Baruch Israel. Hostos Community College is located at 450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street in the Bronx. For directions, call 718-518-4455 or visit http://www.hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts/directions.html. Ad-mission is free.
Jazz Con BRIO will heat up the Bronx Museum of the Arts with performances by Desmar Guevara and his en-semble, jazz vocalist Alma Micic and jazz instrumentalist Roy Campbell. Jazz Con BRIO performances begin at 6:15pm. The Bronx Museum is located at 1040 Grand Concourse at 165th Street in the Bronx. For directions, call 718-681-6000 or visit http://www.bronxmuseum.org/info.htm. Admission is free.
Roy Campbell, Jr., a two-time BRIO winner, was born in Los Angeles but bred in New York. At 20 he led his own band and was in great demand as a side man and studio musician. Roy’s achievements outside the US included leading the Thelonius New World Orchestra in Rotterdam and being commissioned to compose music for brass ensembles in the Eindhoven and Groningen Festivals. He has written and arranged music for docu-mentaries and off-Broadway productions, and he and his contemporary bands play constantly in concerts, on tour, and in festivals all over the world.
BX1: Bronx Artist Festival 2005 provides a snapshot of the South Bronx as the Cultural Corridor to arts and cul-ture in the borough. The jazz component of the festival is one of the many segments of June 1st’s Bronx Culture Trolley will transport guests to an array of presentations and performances by former and current BRIO winners at the theater at Hostos Center for Arts and Culture, the Bronx Museum, Pregones Theater, and the Downtown Bronx Bar & Café.
For complete information on all the events and activities taking place during BX1’s four-day Bronx Artist Festival, visit BCA’s website at www.bronxarts.org.
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