Contact:
The ManagerRoadside Willies Smokehouse & Bar
manager@roadsidewillies.ca
902.843.3486
Where
Roadside Willies Smokehouse27 Jennifer Drive
Off Pictou Road
Bible Hill (Truro), NS B2N 6M5
Driving Directions
Augusto Enriquez & Los Primos Live!
Join Augusto Enriquez (vocals, guitar) and Los Primos for an evening of Cuban music featuring Jeff Goodspeed (sax, flute), Carla Bezanson (piano), Matt MacLellan (bass), David Burton (drums) and Alison Enriquez (vocals, violin). At a young 14 years of age, Alison is a prodigy on the violin and can hold an audience spell bound. She is an angel when she sings and can touch your heart. She has already played with the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia. Alison lives in Havana, but will be staying here in Nova Scotia for a year of study at the Armbrae Academy starting in September. All tickets sales will be used to help pay for her living expenses. You get to enjoy an evening of fantastic live music and support a worthy cause at the same time.
Tickets are $13.04 plus HST and must be purchased prior to the event. Sorry, first come, first served for seating choice. BOOK YOUR SEATS NOW! Simply click on the Register Now! link below and follow the directions to purchase your tickets securely online. You do not need a PayPal account and, yes, you can use your credit card. Tickets are also available at Roadside Willies. All sales are final.
Augusto Enriquez -sings the songs of- Sivlio Rodríguez
Augusto is one of the most visionary people who I have ever met. He believes that creation of some thing new (in art), is the only thing worth pursuing. Only with the creation of something new, will life continue to have meaning. While his music appeals the to many people, Augusto only answers to himself. He spent 4 years working on a Triolgy of CD’s as a tribute to Cuba’s (and latin America’s) most reviered song-writer, Silvio Rodríguez… because he had the idea to do that. He invested his life and most of his own personal resources into the conception, recording and production of this CD “Te Doy una Canción”.
It is orchestral, it is jazz, it is rock, of course it is latin, but most of all it is beautiful. It has beauty in the melodies and lyrics of Silvio, but equal beauty in the arrangements, the voice, the feel and the production of this library of classic songs. There are many years of listening within these 3 CD’s and I am so proud to be able to help bring some of these songs to audiences in Nova Scotia.
We have the musicians with us to be able to bring Augusto’s productions of Silvio’s songs to a new place that even Augusto has not envisioned yet.
Jorge Chicoy - guitar “the pearl of the south”
Avi Garcia - bass “perhaps the busiest bass player in Cuba”
Silvio Pupo – piano “an acrobat on the piano”
Dave Burton – drums “the smoothest groove in Nova Scotia”
Jeff Goodspeed – sax/flute/EWI “that’s me and I am so pleased to be here”
We are indeed fortunate to have a sneak preview of this incredible Triolgy CD, as it has not been released outside of Cuba yet. When Augusto returns to Cuba in March he will travel with the National Symphonic Orchestra to begin the South American release of Te Doy una Canción. Eruopean release will follow and then Canada.
We look forward to playing for the wonderful audience at Willies Roadhouse. When you listen to these songs (whether you speak spanish or not) you want to hear all the nuance and all the subtle harmonies, as Augusto brings the melodies to life soaring above the band with a classical tenor voice or with a jazz sound or with the rhythmic intensity of the Cuban music we love so much.
This is the night for real music fans. This is the night for anyone who knows the music of Sivlio Rodríguez. This is the night for those who want to hear Augusto at his best. Enjoy!
Jeff Goodspeed
