BD&P World Music Series- Spanish Harlem Orchestra with special guests Septeto Nacional

Grammy award-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra is the standard bearer for contemporary Latin music, delivering sizzling salsa guaranteed to get you out of your seat! With five-part horns and precision percussion, the harmonies of this 13-member ensemble of ace musicians make it impossible not to join the party on the dance floor!

Their beats will take you back to those warm summer nights as the soundtrack to a hot Latin party with their distinctive New York Latin sound. The Los Angeles Times calls them “a forceful, finely tuned ensemble of alumni from the great salsa bands of Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Willie Colon, Ruben Blades and others.”

The show opens with a spicy Cuban appetizer with Septeto Nacional who is without a doubt, the most universal and classic Son band in Cuba today. Son is a fusion of Spanish guitar and song with percussion of African origin which gained worldwide popularity in the 1930s. If you like the sounds of Buena Vista Social Club, you will be seduced by the classic rhythms of the “ambassadors of the Cuban folklore”, Septeto Nacional.

Spanish Harlem Orchestra with Septeto Nacional is a lively introduction to EPCOR CENTRE’s 2010-11 season of exceptional international music.