lula

Sunday

Feb 14

2010

Valentine's Day with Sinal Aberto featuring Luanda Jones

 

A night of Brazilian jazz for lovers and for  lovers of music featuring Rio de Janeiro-born Luanda Jones and a cracker jack band lead by Gord Sheard featuring Mark Kelso, George Koller and Maninho Costa. Dinner and show packages on sale now. Or come for just the music and stay for our Brazilian Carnaval party with Batucada Carioca. A

DINNER PACKAGES STILL AVAILABLE - CALL 416 588 0307

 

Dinner and Show Packages - 2 seatings

OPTION 1 6pm to 8pm seating - $59 plus tax and tip (comes to $75) includes three course dinner with choice of appetizer, main and dessert and 7pm music set. (Tax and tip will be added upon purchase.) Beverages additional and will be billed on the night of the event. Please print your paypal receipt and bring it to the door.

OPTION 2 8:30pm to 10:30pm seating - $59 plus tax and tip (comes to $75) includes three course dinner with choice of appetizer, main and dessert and 9pm music set. (Tax and tip will be added upon purchase.) Beverages additional and will be billed on the night of the event.

OPTION 3 Show only 7pm set - does not guarantee seating $18

OPTION 4 Show only 9 pm set - does not guarantee seating $18
All tickets include the Brazilian Carnaval party starting at 10pm. We'll clear the tables from the dancefloor after the second jazz set so get ready to Samba. The next day is a holiday!!!
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More about Sinal Aberto and Luanda Jones:
Sinal Aberto is an exciting new Brazilian jazz quintet featuring outstanding musicians from Brazil and Canada. The group brings a jazz approach to a repertoire consisting of classic Brazilian songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque, Djavan, Pixinguinha, Cartola and others, as well as vibrant original compositions by band members Gordon Sheard and Luanda Jones.

Fronted by dynamic vocalist/guitarist Luanda Jones, scion of a musical family from Rio de Janeiro, Sinal Aberto joins deep Brazilian traditions with the best in Canadian jazz musicianship. Luanda has been captivating audiences for over a decade with her unique blend of suave, jazz-inflected vocals and stylized guitar harmonies, interpreting some of the Brazil’s most cherished popular musicians.  Her influences cover a wide artistic spectrum, ranging from João Gilberto and Gilberto Gil to the Beatles.  Now living in Toronto, Luanda has performed at a number of local venues opening for both local and international artists, including Badi Assad, Lal, Lady Son, and Carmen Souza. She just released her first disc, Aquarela, in October 2009, a record featuring some of the top global music players in Toronto, as well as original compositions by both Luanda and her songwriting parents.
Bandleader Gordon Sheard, head of composition in the Music Department of Humber College, is a respected pianist and composer who has performed with many familiar musical names, among them Chuck Mangione, Liona Boyd, Alain Caron, Autorickshaw, and Manteca. His acclaimed compositions have been performed by, in addition to the latter two groups, saxophonist Phil Dwyer, Rick Shadrach Lazar and the Montuno Police, and Eliana Cuevas, and may also be heard on three CDs released under his own name. Gord has spent over six months in Brazil as part of his doctoral studies, and is highly knowledgeable about numerous Brazilian music genres.
Bassist George Koller is one of the most in-demand musicians in Canada. He has performed and recorded with a virtual pantheon of musicians including The Shuffle Demons, Phil Woods, Peter Gabriel, Loreena McKennitt, Bruce Cockburn, Holly Cole, Eliana Cuevas, and many, many others.
Mark Kelso is one of Canada’s busiest drummers, whose credits comprise an equally impressive list of names, including Herbie Hancock, Gino Vannelli, Peter Townsend, Jane Bunnett, Holly Cole, Amanda Marshall, Hilario Duran, and many others.Mark is also the head of the percussion department at Humber College.
Rio de Janeiro-born percussionist Joelson David “Maninho” Costa is steeped in the musical traditions of his Brazil. Under the tutelage of his uncle Odilon Costa, percussion master of the Grande Rio samba school, Maninho, starting at age 8, learned to play all of the instruments used in the traditional samba of his native city. Since then he has performed with several of Rio’s famous samba schools, including the world-renowned Beija-Flor and Salgueiro organizations. He also played on Sergio Mendes’s Grammy-Award winning CD of 1992, Brasileiro. Since his arrival in Toronto in 2001, Maninho’s talents have been in great demand in that city, leading him to perform with such luminaries as Brazilians Hermeto Pascoal and Jovino Santos Neto, as well as many Canadian artists, including Jane Bunnett, Jesse Cook, and Paul Donat.

Collectively, Sinal Aberto’s members provide a musical experience that is not to be missed and never to be forgotten.


Event details

Door time: 6PM

Show start time: 7PM and 9PM sets followed by Batucada at 11:30

Admission: $18 ADV or $20 at door show only

$59 (plus tas and tip) dinner and show package

Performance Type: Latin Jazz Jam

Presented by: Lula Lounge

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