On Thursday, March 20, I’ll be back at The Urban Winery, 2315 Stewart Avenue, in Silver Spring, Md., from 7 to 9 p.m. I’m thrilled that Susan Gaeta, a master of Sephardic music and other genres, will be sitting in with me, alongside the also-talented Donato Soviero on guitar and Mark Saltman on bass. We’ll be offering a mixture of jazz, folk and blues and more. This is very impressive company. I hope you can join us.
For a sense of what you might hear, click here to hear my recently released album, “In Case You Missed It.”
There will be a $10 cover at the door.
Susan, a vocalist and guitarist, is an important member of a new generation of musicians exploring the rich and varied traditions of Sephardic music. She has performed classic jazz and traditional Argentinian folk music, toured extensively with legendary Sephardic singer Flory Jagoda and participated in The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities “Master-Apprentice” program. Susan has appeared at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, the Askenazi Festival in Toronto, Canada and historic concerts in Istanbul and Sarajevo. She continues to perform with Trio Sefardi.
Donato has appeared with top local and national artists in the Washington D.C. area since 1982 and led his own groups in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. He has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Wolf Trap, and the Carter Barron Amphitheater, Blues Alley, Twins Jazz, the Bohemian Caverns, the Smithsonian Jazz Café, Bethesda Jazz and Blues, and several Jazz festivals. He has been a member of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, as well as co-ledthe Jazz-fusion group, He has been the recipient of awards, including a 1994 TAP Award from the D.C. Commission of the Arts and Humanities and a 1995 GIA Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and recorded extensively.
If you haven’t been there, The Urban Winery is a cozy, tucked-away place that serves more than 30 wines produced on-site as well as a selection of other hand-crafted wines, beers, and spirits produced in the state of Maryland. Their international wine selection represents other small producers from around the globe and features a wide variety of grape expressions for those who truly wish to explore the whole wide world of wine. And, yes, they do have a a light and tasty food menu to go along with your beverages.
Hope to see you there.
Jeff
Photo by Yehuda Goldman. Haircut (a #2) by Jalal Mohammed.
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