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Ramana Vieira and Ensemble at California Jazz Conservatory
Courtesy of Ramana Vieira | Posted on September 13, 2012
Where
California Jazz Conservatory
2087 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA
Map
510-845-5373
When
Sun, September 30, 2012
4:30p.m.
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Musicians
About
Called the New Voice of Portuguese World Music by Mundo Magazine, vocalist Ramana Vieira has made her mark as one of the premier contemporary Fado artists. Ramana has been featured in the New York Times, headlined the world's largest Portuguese festival, performed at the 2010 Encontro Festival in Macau, and has had a song played in an Olympic opening ceremony. The renowned Portuguese poet Euclides Cavaco has called on Ramana to put several of his poems to music. Her extraordinary gift of bringing Fado into ...
modern times is her unique trademark.
For this return performance at the Jazzschool, Ramana and her ensemble will incorporate uptempo compositions from their 2010 album, "Lagrimas de Rainha," and debut new material written and arranged for their upcoming "Luso Sol." This new work demonstrates the bands tremendous versatility on everything from whispering, haunting ballads to hypnotic dance grooves....