Contact:
Ticket SalesLos Primos
manager@roadsidewillies.ca
902.899-0413
When
Saturday February 25, 2017 at 7:30 PM AST-to-
Sunday February 26, 2017 at 12:00 PM AST
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Where
Saint Antonio's Olympic Community Hall2304 Hunter Street
Halifax, NS B3K 4V6
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Win a Trip for 4 to Cuba!
Online sales are closed. Please contact Jeff Goodspeed at goodspeed@bellaliant.net for tickets.
Dear Friends of Los Primos:
We need your help big time. Work-to-rule is threatening our Los Primos programs for 2017. All school teachers are on “work-to-rule”, so even though many of them have raffle tickets, they cannot take part in any fund raising activities. Our only hope is that some programs have parent volunteers to do the fund raising work for them. We must have our raffle draw, and we must provide the winners with a Trip for 4 to Cuba. So I don’t know what to do other than to ask the friends of Los Primos for help.
Since 1997 when we had our first Los Primos event, we have donated more than 700 instruments to schools, students and professionals in Cuba and we have sponsored about 30 cultural exchange trips between our two countries.
Since our first Los Primos raffle in 2001, the project has raised over $500,000 for music education in Nova Scotia. We have done this in partnership with school band programs around the province that join our raffle each year to raise money for their own programs and at the same time for Los Primos. We have lost our network of raffle ticket sellers due to work-to-rule and this has placed Los Primos in serious jeoporady. We are turning to online sales to help fill the gap. Click the "Register Now!" link below to order your tickets. We're also trying to put together a last minute show at Roadside Willies on Friday February 24, 2017. Click the following link to purchase your show tickets securely online.
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eds2l8c51f5ca6e8&llr=qo8aiodab&showPage=true
Sincerely,
Jeff Goodspeed
Raffle tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5. Simply click on the Register Now! link below and follow the directions to order your tickets. We tried to use PayPal, but the transactions were denied as raffle sales are not permitted, licensed or not. Simply register to order your tickets and ignore that it says "Pay at the Door." We will be in touch with several payment options after receiving your order. Thanks!
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
