Andrew Finn Magill's Canta, Violino! | Cambridge, IL

🍉 6pm - potluck/social hour

🎤 7pm - show

💵 $20-30 suggested donation

👨‍👩‍👧 All ages, family-friendly

Tickets at xroadscc.org/events

Bring lawn chairs/blankets

Rain location: Bishop Hill Creative Commons

https://andrewfinnmagill.com/

Canta, Violino! is an instrumental Brazilian duo featuring original Brazilian choro and samba. The duo brings together award-winning jazz violinist Andrew Finn Magill and Brazilian 7-string guitar virtuoso Edinho Gerber.

Choro was the first popular Brazilian music, emerging in the 1870s, and is the precursor to samba, bossa nova and modern popular Brazilian music. Renowned for its virtuosic musicianship and diverse rhythmic palette, it is one of the most exciting instrumental genres on the planet. Andrew Finn Magill who has been featured on NPR and PBS, moved to Brazil in 2014 to immerse himself in Brazilian choro music. Magill was signed to Ropeadope Records in 2018 for his original Brazilian music project. He followed up that release in 2021 with the sequel Festa! Says legendary Brazilian percussionist Airto Moreira (Miles Davis, Chick Corea, etc): "He can fool you into thinking he is from Brazil!"

Edinho Gerber possesses a rich musical vocabulary developed in the two countries where he was raised: the United States and Brazil. Navigating effortlessly between the genres of choro, jazz, samba, and blues, he is always in search of the intersection points within his dual cultural identity. After being a staple in the Chicago music as an in demand sideman and playing with countless U.S. based Brazilian groups, including Som Brasil, Renato Anesi Trio, Bossa Tres, A Cor do Brasil, and leading the samba-jazz group Zona Sul, he returned to Rio de Janeiro for many years, dove even deeper into Brazilian music and joined up with Rogerio Souza to form Duo Violão. He recently returned to the US where he leads his own groups, performs with singers Ana Everling and Dill Costa, released “Benjamim e Edinho” an inventive cross cultural collaboration with Ben Lamar Gay, and tours regularly with Duo Violão.

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The potluck is optional, but is a great chance to meet others in the audience and maybe even share a meal with the artist. It also helps ensure the artist isn't having to have a meal from a gas station. We'll provide the plates, bowls, silverware, napkins, and, if you need it, serving spoons. Feel free to bring anything you'd like, an entrée, appetizer, dessert, or drink to share. I recommend to bring something you will enjoy eating, because if you enjoy it it is likely others will as well.

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This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency, through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Humanities, and the Doris and Ken Charitable Trust.

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