🎉A Musical Journey from New Orleans to Venezuela🎉
Travel from New Orleans to coastal Venezuela as CHELLE! & Friends, with special guests from the Venezuelan Music Project, celebrate the vibrant rhythms of Mardi Gras and Carnaval, blending New Orleans and Caribbean traditions in a joyful evening of music, history, and culture.
CHELLE! & Friends
Michelle Jacques – lead vocals
Rhonda Crane – vocals
Bryan Dyer – vocals, trumpet
Donna Viscuso – woodwinds
Eric Swinderman – guitar
Kevin Scott – bass
Michaelle Goerlitz – drums
Venezuelan Music Project
Jackeline Rago – vocals, guitar
Anna Marie Violich – vocals
Omar Ledezma Jr. – percussion, vocals
Ask 20 people how to define the music of New Orleans and you’ll get 30 answers. It could be jazz, funk, soul, Creole, Cajun, or gospel, Caribbean, African, Zydeco, rock or the chants and stirring rhythms of Mardi Gras Indians. New Orleans native, and Oakland’s own “Queen of New Orleans Music”, Michelle Jacques (Artistic Director & Founder of CHELLE! & Friends) along with some of the most distinguished and accomplished musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area, take all these influences, and stir them into a stewpot of musical gumbo that is sweet, spicy, aromatic and definitely intoxicating.
The Venezuelan Music Project (VMP) was founded in 1997 to share the sounds and cultural traditions of Venezuela throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the continental United States. Combining the indigenous Venezuelan, West African and Spanish influences, VMP emerges as a dynamic ensemble full of vitality, energy, and color. Led by Jackeline Rago, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer and educator who specializes in Venezuelan Folk-Music as well as music from other countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, VMP is one of the only groups in the Bay Area performing Venezuelan music today.
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