Kiev was not only the city of the final of the European football championchips but also the host of a beautiful world music festival: Kraina Mriy festival.
I performed there with Lilian Viera and her ‘Samba Soul band’.
It was a blast! Wonderful festival, great people and wow, what a band!
Lilian Viera – vocals
Enrique Firpi – drums
Ed Verhoeff – guitar
Marijn v/d Linden – cavaquinho
Tie Pereira – bass
Vincent Spitters – percussion
Marc Bischoff – keys
Julio Hernandes – sound engineer
In may I had the honor to join Beatriz’ band on a trip to Mexico-City. We performed at the ‘Festival de Ollin Kan’. Beatriz is an Uruguayan singer who writes and sings her own songs based on south-american folclore rhythms. Please check out her new album ‘Nomade‘!
It was only one show (for now) but boy it was a blast!
In january I was writing the arrangements for a new show with the Cubop City Big Band lead by Lucas van Merwijk.
In previous editions of the Otro Mundo-series the CCBB had interpreted music from Venezuela and Colombia.
This year it is Candombe, the beautiful music fom Uruguay.
Songs by Jaime Roos, Hugo Fattoroso, Banda OPA and others were the centerpiece of a concert in Theater de Kom in Nieuwegein featuring José Lopretti on bass, José Perez on percussion and the beautiful Beatriz Aguiar on vocals.
It was a memorable first show with hopefully many more to come.
Our tour with Manou Gallo (bass), Lucas van Merwijk (drums), Ed Verhoeff (guitar) and Juan ‘Bulu’ Viloria (percussion) was really fantastic!
We played our last show yesterday for an enthusiastic, dancing crowd at Podium Mozaïk in Amsterdam.
Thanks to everybody who came out to support live music! We loved it!
See some reactions of the shows we did on this message board
Photography: Daniel Patriasz
Just back from a great week in India.
I performed with Izaline Calister, Yerman Aponte and Enrique Firpi at the bluefrog (Mumbai), bFlat (Bangalore) and the Congo Square Festival (Calcutta)
Thanks to everybody who came out to see us! It was really nice to meet you.
Christmas is [almost] around the corner, and I happen to have the perfect gift for you!
Starting now, the new Christmas Album by Izaline Calister is available on CDbaby.
Produced by Izaline Calister and Marc Bischoff
