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2019 Grammy Nominee Elio Villafranca & the Jass Synopators featuring Jeremy Pelt February 16- Essex Junction, Vermont February 18-20- Dizzy's Club NYC Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators presents Life Stories Rare Vermont Appearance The Double E: T Rex Theater 21 Essex Way Essex Junction, VT 05425 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/elio-villafranca-tickets-86891915057 Featuring: Jeremy Pelt- trumpet Roxy Coss- tenor sax/soprano sax/flute James Burton- trombone Hamish Smith- acoustic bass Dion Parson- drums Guest artist: Dreiser Durrutthy Bombalé- percussions/vocals from Chucho Valdés band. *** Elio Villafranca & The Jass Syncopators presents Life Stories Dizzy's Club- Feb. 18- 20 Broadway at 60th St., 5th floor- NYC Featuring: Jeremy Pelt- trumpet ( Feb. 18-19) Alex Norris- trumpet (Feb. 20) Roxy Coss- tenor sax/soprano sax/flute James Burton- trombone Peter Slavov- acoustic bass Dion Parson- drums Guest artist: Dreiser Durrutthy Bombalé- percussions/vocals from Chucho Valdés band. Life Stories: Elio Villafranca will debut his new Life Stories program with a rare Vermont appearance at Essex's Double E T-Rex theaters, then hit Dizzy's Club for a special three (3) three night run. Elio returns to Dizzy's Club with a new version of his Jass Syncopators featuring an exciting musical combination consisting of Jeremy Pelt on trumpet, Roxy Coss on tenor sax, James Burton on trombone, Peter Slavov on bass, drummer Dion Parson, and master Afro Cuban percussionist and vocalist Dreiser Durrutthy Bombalé. Life Stories is a program of original music by Elio Villafranca written for this band that offers a musical and humanitarian journey of Elio's own life experiences, expanding from Haiti to Cuba to Spain to New Orleans, as told through the rich Afro diaspora's landscape. The program will also include a moving musical piece dedicated to the young teenagers who protested gun violence a few years ago in Washington DC. as well as premiering selections of Villafranca's newest suite “Don't Change My Name," which is a tribute to Florentina Zulueta, who is regarded as the first Queen of the Ararás in the region of Matanzas, Cuba.

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