Carlos Puig- South Beach Jazz Festival at South Beach Jazz Festival at Euclid Circle -- Main Stage

The Second South Beach Jazz Festival will begin on Friday, January 5 for a weekend of classic, Latin, and New Orleans-style acts that will attract jazz fans to South Beach hotels, theaters, and restaurant seats. Over that weekend, open-air performances by local ensembles will draw Lincoln Road promenaders to linger, listen and groove. And even more significantly, the festival musicians will raise public awareness of persons who have disabilities.

Carlos Puig has won several international Awards with works such as “El Guije – Symphonic Suite for Large Orchestra”, “Estilo de la palma” (for solo guitar,) and “Villancico canario” (for mixed choir)...

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The Second South Beach Jazz Festival will begin on Friday, January 5 for a weekend of classic, Latin, and New Orleans-style acts that will attract jazz fans to South Beach hotels, theaters, and restaurant seats. Over that weekend, open-air performances by local ensembles will draw Lincoln Road promenaders to linger, listen and groove. And even more significantly, the festival musicians will raise public awareness of persons who have disabilities.

Carlos Puig has won several international Awards with works such as “El Guije – Symphonic Suite for Large Orchestra”, “Estilo de la palma” (for solo guitar,) and “Villancico canario” (for mixed choir). In 2007 he was selected as the winner of the prestigious “Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition” granted by Cintas Foundation. A multifaceted artist, he has developed simultaneously different lines of work, as composer (with a more than 20 symphonic, chamber and choral works Catalog), as jazz, pop and Latin trumpet player, pianist, arranger and composer.

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