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Cinque – Music Of The Caribbean By Elio Villafranca at Painted Bride Art Center

Courtesy of Painted Bride Art Center | Posted on January 28, 2019

Where

Painted Bride Art Center
5212 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA
Map
215-925-9914

When

Sat, March 30, 2019
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Vincent Herring
saxophone
Greg Tardy
saxophone
Todd Marcus
clarinet, bass
James Burton
trombone
Arturo Stable
percussion
Jonathan Troncoso
percussion

About

CINQUE is a five movement suite inspired by the story of Joseph Cinque, who in 1839 led a successful revolt aboard the slave ship La Amistad, days after being sold and transported to a sugar plantation in Cuba. Elio’s most ambitious project today, showcases the cultural diversity of the five Caribbean islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, The Dominican Republic, and Jamaica; while simultaneously high- lighting the Congolese musical heritage woven into the fabric of each of these diverse nations, and yet unified via the forced migration of Africans to the Americas.

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