Global Cuba Fest
Saturday, 03/12/2022-, 08:00 pm-
Miami-Dade Auditorium
2901 West Flagler Street,
Miami, Florida, 33135
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Cost: $40

Requiring social distancing? NO REPLY
Requiring masks? YES
Providing hand sanitizer? YES

MDCA, FUNDarte and Miami Light Project present the 15th edition of Global Cuba Fest. The Closing Night of the XV edition of the Global Cuba Fest closes with a double bill concert featuring the fierce virtuosity and creativity of Jorge Luis Pacheco with special guest star Daymé Arocena and Carlos Averhoff Jr. with Latin jazz legends Harold López-Nussa, Brian Lynch, Nestor Torres, Maggie Marquez and Ahmed Barroso premiering the new album “Together.”

Jorge Luis Pacheco, is a virtuoso pianist, composer, arranger, percussionist and singer. He won the “Audience Award” and the “Second Jury Award” at the International Jazz Piano Competition Montreux Switzerland in July 2014. In 2017 Pacheco also won the best solo and performance award in the jazz contest “Made in New York” in New York City. Monty Alexander exclaims he “defies genre.”

Carlos Averhoff Jr is a Latin Grammy-nominated Cuban tenor saxophonist, contemporary Afro-Cuban Jazz composer, and educator.