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PETE ESCOVEDO ORCHESTRA
WITH SHEILA E. & JUAN ESCOVEDO
PRESENTED BY
PACIFIC JAZZ INSTITUTE at
DIMITIOU’S JAZZ ALLEY
SPONSORED BY
CENTRO CULTURAL HISPANO AMERICANO
Thursday, February 18 through Sunday 21, 2010
At The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley
2033 6th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121 - 206-441-9729
COST: $26.50
The Pacific Jazz Institute at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley welcomes Latin Jazz Timbalero Pete Escovedo, drumming sensation Sheila E. and conguero Juan Escovedo. Band members are Joe Rotundi (piano), Marc VanWageningen (bass), Melecio Magdaluyo (alto, tenor saxophone and flute), Mario Gonzales (trumpet), Kerry Loeschen (trombone), Doug Beavers (trombone). Set times Thursday – Saturday at 7:30pm and 10:00pm. Set time Sunday at 7:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm on Thursday and 5:30pm Friday – Sunday.
Legendary Percussionist Pete Escovedo broke down the barriers between Smooth Jazz, Salsa, Latin Jazz and contemporary music. Born in Pittsburg, CA, July 13, 1935, he began his musical journey while attending high school in Oakland, CA. At the age of sixteen, he began playing the saxophone and then discovered percussion which became his love of rhythm and his dream of playing Latin Jazz music.
Sheila Escovedo (Sheila E) was born into a musical family and at the age of 5 joined her Dad on stage for a solo in front of 3,000 people. At that moment, Sheila knew she was going to be a percussionist.
Following in the footsteps of his father, Pete Escovedo, Juan started playing percussion at the age of ten. When he turned 14, he began performing with his father and fell in love with all aspects: the audience, the stage, and the excitement of playing live music. Juan became recognized by the entertainment industry, bringing to it his unique style of R&B, Pop and Latin Jazz. Before long he toured and recorded with many artists.
Centro Cultural Hispano Americano (CCHA)
Please join us as an organization or as an individual to this effort to represent Hispanic America, and together organize our participation during the months of April and May. We need representatives for all the countries.
Please contact Nelida Mendoza at 206-418-6710, 253-210-0134
Are you interested in acquiring these paintings from a
Colombian artist?
Please call: 206-418-6710, 253-210-0134
If you are a leader in the community, have skills and talent, and wish to donate your time to promote the mission of CCHA.
Please contact Nelida Mendoza for more information at
206-418-6710, or 253-210-0134
PAST EVENT
Seattle Rainbow Bookfest 2009
Centro Cultural Hispano Americano is a proud sponsor of the seventh annual Seattle Rainbow Bookfest on Saturday, February 28, 2009.
Indu Sundaresan, a Washington State Book Award recipient, is the featured writer of the event. She will be reading from her newly released book of stories, "In the Convent of Little Flowers." There will be writers from different ethnic backgrounds, and among them are four Latina women who will be presenting workshops, panel discussions
and readings from their works: Paola Casla Taylor, interpreter, translator and writer; Diana Leal, journalist; Maria de Lourdes Victoria, writer; and María Nélida Mendoza, journalist, poet and translator.
Diana Leal and Nelida Mendoza will be presenting "Women at War" during the last 50 years in Latin America. They will be talking about the direct and indirect intervention of women in the armed conflict,
specifically in Colombia, Dominican Republic and El Salvador and how
they have been affected by the war, which has also impacted society as
a whole. (1:30 -3:00 p.m.).
3:45 p.m. Nelida Mendoza will read form her poetry.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Place: Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center
Featured Artist
of the Month
Jaime Olaya Colombian Artist 
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Poetry Recital
"Romancero de la Vía Dolorosa" by Fr. Benjamín Sánchez from México
Directed and translated to English by
M. Nélida Mendoza
The profound reflexion of the Passion of Jesus written in poetry will be declaimed by members of the Hispanic Community with a live presentation of each Station of the Cross.
Performance in Spanish. There will be translated booklets in English.
Come and live with us the pain of Jesus.
Tuesday, March 24 at 8:00 p.m. at Saint Thomas
4415 S. 140th Street, Tukwila, WA 98168
Friday, March 27, 2009 at 8:15 p.m. at Saint Philomena
1790 S. 222nd Street, Des Moines, WA 98198
Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:15 p.m. at Saint Theresa
3939 SW 331st Street, Federal Way, WA 98023
ARTE PROFUNDO
FLAMENCO
A very special night of Flamenco Music and Dance.
Dancer Esther Marion and Guitarist Rafael Vargas present the powerful and versatile singer JESUS MONTOYA from SEVILLA, and with the talented guest artists: guitarist Mark Ferguson and Dancer Savannah Fuentes.
Friday June 12th @ 8 PM
Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainer Ave. South
Seatle, WA. 98118
