Cross-Cultural Arts Festival: Latin America and The Caribbean

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JC Productions and Vistas Series in conjunction
with the Cross-Cultural Arts Festival
present

Eva Ayllón

March 30, 2012, 8:00 PM

Shea Center for Performing Arts
Admission:
$50 Orchestra & Near Loge • $40 Rear Loge

For over thirty years Afro-Peruvian singer Eva Ayllón has been an international phenomenon performing in front of sold-out audiences in her native Peru as well as North America. Emerging in the early 70s Eva immediately set a landmark by establishing herself as the leading exponent of Afro-Peruvian music. Eva’s recording career spans over 20 albums including a double Latin Grammy nomination in 2003 and a double Platinum album in Peru.

www.evaayllon.net

Star Promotions and Vistas Series in conjunction
with the Cross-Cultural Arts Festival
present

Johnny Ventura

March 31, 2012, 8:00 PM

Shea Center for Performing Arts
Admission:
$75 Orchestra • $60 Near Loge • $40 Rear Loge
A discount is available for the WPU Community-please call the box office at 973-720-2371 for more information.

The Father of Modern Merengue Johnny Ventura brings his unique brand of merengue to the Shea Center. Throughout his artistic life that spans over five decades, Johnny has performed all over the world and given the highest honors from countries up and down the western hemisphere. Considered the most proliferous Dominican artist, his repertoire includes 28 Gold Records, 2 Platinum Albums, a Latin Grammy in 2004 and a Grammy of Excellence in 2006 for his trajectory. Rewarded as the “Merengue Artist of the Century” by the Dominican Congress and the first artist ever invited to a United States Presidential Inauguration for former President Jimmy Carter, there is only one Johnny Ventura.

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Jazz Room Series and the Cross-Cultural Arts Festival present

Paquito D’Rivera
with the William Paterson Latin Jazz Ensemble
directed by Chico Mendoza

April 1, 2012, 4:00 PM

Shea Center for Performing Arts
Admission: Public $15 • William Paterson Community and Seniors $12 • Students $8

Sittin’ In Meet-the-Artist Session, 3:00 p.m., Shea 101 •
Free to all Jazz Room ticketholders

Paquito D’Rivera first burst onto the world’s music scene as a member of his native Cuba’s Grammy-winning ensemble Irakere. Since that time, he has gone on to win a host of Grammy Awards as a leader of his own band, and as a collaborator on project that transcend his Latin and jazz roots, including cellist Yo Yo Ma, . He is today as well known for his impressive classical compositions as for his virtuosic saxophone and clarinet artistry. He has been awarded the National Medal of Arts at the White House, and is a National Endowment of the Arts Jazz Master. He has been composer in residence at the Caramoor Festival and with the St. Lukes Chamber Orchestra. Today’s concert will feature D’Rivera’s compositions as well as his powerful woodwind playing.

www.PaquitoD'Rivera.com