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Hispanic Heritage Month Concert with Geovane Santos at the New Orleans Jazz Museum - 400 Esplanade Ave
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Free. Free and open to the publicLocation: LAT/LONG: 29.961404, -90.057871
At New Orleans Jazz Museum - 400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans - In the Ground Floor Education Center
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2:00 to 3:00 pm Central Time
Description
The New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park
in partnership with
The New Orleans Jazz Museum
presents a
Hispanic Heritage Month Concert
with Geovane Santos
Friday at 2:00 pm
At the New Orleans Jazz Museum - 400 Esplanade Ave, New Orleans
In the Ground Floor Education Center
Currently a local presence in the New Orleans music scene, Geovane Santos, a native Brazilian from the city of Belo Horizonte, is a guitarist, composer, arranger, vocalist, educator, and awardee of the 2017 Louis Armstrong Foundation Jazz Composer Award through ASCAP in association with the University of New Orleans (UNO).
Having his guitar and his voice as bridges to bring Brazilian music to American audiences, Santos’ repertoire is filled with less known selections as well as innovative arrangements of old standards taking a new approach to Brazilian music fusing it with Bebop improvisation, New Orleans funk, West African rhythms and Caribbean beats.
This program takes place the first-floor Education Center of the New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.
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