About this Event
Jazz for the Soul @ Jazzbird presents The Hot Latin Rhythm and Beat of Joe Garcia and Friends - Salsa into the Season Featuring Favorite Latin/Jazz Tunes You'll Know and Love!
Featuring Joe Garcia/percussion & vocals,
Benjamin Cortez/piano,
Todd Johnson/bass, and
Dom Moio/drums.
Music on a Mission is pleased to contribute 100% of all donations from this concert to "Outreach Belarus," a humanitarian aid project for the children, impoverished families, widows, and orphans of Belarus.
About Joe Garcia: Of Cuban descent, Joe began playing drums and percussion at the age of 13 in the heavily Latin influenced city of Miami.
With a professional career spanning over 30 years, Joe has performed many different styles of music from jazz and Latin jazz to Brazilian to country to rock, and records on numerous projects, both live and in-studio. Joe was inspired by iconic musicians Mongo Santamaria, Giovanni Hidalgo, Luis Conte, Roy Haynes and Joe Morello, to name a few.
Joe has performed with and/or opened for Tambores, Dom Moio, B.B. King, Luis Conte, The Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers, Cinco de Moio, Gladys Knight, Frankie Valli, FogHat, Bachman Turner Overdrive (B.T.O.), Mindi Abair, Sergio Mendes, The Everly Brothers, The Fifth Dimension, The Buckinghams and more. He currently leads his own Latin jazz quartet, Joe Garcia & Friends. Email Joe at [email protected]
ALL JFTS CONCERTS ARE FREE and open to the public and all donations received will benefit local and international humanitarian causes. You do not need to register for this event, but if you haven't done so, so we can keep you posted with Jazz for the Soul updates and reminders. Doors open at 4:45PM
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Ravenscroft Jazzbird Lounge, 8445 E Hartford Dr, Scottsdale, United States
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