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Saturday,
February 16, 2008 at The Blue Star Brewery, 2 shows (times: 7pm
and 9:30pm)
1414 South Alamo, Suite 105, San Antonio, TX (Cover: $15.00)
The Mambo Kings headlined the Fifth Annual Latin Jazz festival in Brownsville,
Texas, sold-out two consecutive nights at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
with their "Tribute to Tito Puente" show, and celebrated Cinco De
Mayo with a Latin Jazz concert at the Carver Community Cultural Center. John
Lopez is the musical director. Featured soloists include Cecil Carter, Jay
Fort, Ed Sherry, Randy Zimmerman, Luvine Elias Jr, and Richard Oppenheim among
others.
There are two special guests appearing with us at this particular
concert: West Coast Trumpet Soloist Mike Vax (Stan Kenton, Clark Terry
Big Band, Art Pepper) and New York City Percussionist Memo Acevedo (Tito
Puente, Denyce Graves, Gregory Hines).
Performance pictures with The Mambo Kings, taken February 17, 2007 in San
Antonio:
Visit the VIDEO PAGE for live
performance footage
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