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Kimmel Center Jazz Residency: Dariel Peniazek / Maya Peniazek / Ariacne Trujillo Public Workshop at Kimmel Cultural Campus

Courtesy of Nathan Godshall | Posted on February 6, 2019

Where

Kimmel Cultural Campus
300 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
Map
215-893-1999

Kimmel Center Jazz Residency: Dariel Peniazek / Maya Peniazek / Ariacne Trujillo Public Workshop at Kimmel Cultural Campus

When

Mon, February 25, 2019
6:00 pm

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About

Special BYOB Performance!
The public workshop is a special kind of concert where the jazz residency artist engage in a direct dialogue with the audience about their music. The artist shares background info, research, and musical inspirations for the new work they are writing for the residency as they discuss what “jazz” is today. They will play some of their own music and cover some music the audience is sure to know already. It's a special BYOB event and tickets are free with a reservation. Can you afford not to come??

Dariel Peniazek, wishes to create music that “combines the infectious rhythms of South America with the intellectual approach of modern jazz.” Collaborating with poet, playwright, and lyricist Maya Peniazek, his piece will address, through its lyrics and spoken word, his experiences of discovering his cultural identity as a Latino-American. Using the tres cubano, a traditional guitar-like instrument of Cuban origin, he plans to explore new territory of Latin jazz by utilizing the instrument in a new context, digging into modern jazz while paying homage to its Cuban roots. The work will combine “Latin rhythms with the distinctly Philadelphian sounds [I have] so voraciously inhaled in the past 5 years.”...

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