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Your Let's Dance Boston experience will begin with a lesson from top local dance instructors, then you'll dance the night away to music by a live band. Styles, instructors, and bands will be announced this summer. Previous Let's Dance Boston events have featured salsa, swing, garba, klezmer, and more: you won't want to miss the fun!
Berklee-trained in blues, country, and jazz harmonica, Shane Sager spent six years in Sting's touring band and is about to release his debut album. Don't miss your chance to hear a true harmonica virtuoso! General admission and preferred ticket options, with discounts for students and seniors.
Professional musicians and dancers, and young performers in training celebrate Puerto Rican culture through Bomba percussion and expressive dance, and invite you to join the fun. General admission and preferred ticket options, with discounts for students and seniors.
Adrián Guardián, Dani Martell, Adriana Duque, and Daniella Ravelo are redefining Venezuelan roots music through a contemporary, global lens, blending vocal virtuosity, compositional sensitivity, and sonic exploration. General admission and preferred ticket options, with discounts for students and seniors.
This seasoned and stirring acoustic trio, hailing from Argentina, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica, bring their long careers and rich, diverse musical backgrounds to this afternoon of gorgeous covers and originals. Performing contemporary Latin jazz standards, and originals by Emmy- and Grammy-winning film and television composer Ragazzi, the trio skillfully and beautifully navigates a moving range of emotions, moods, and styles.
Discover, witness, and revel in the joy of cultural conversation as West and East African percussion styles come together. Malian culture bearer and virtuoso of the balafon Balla Kouyaté teams with Mozambican timbila star, percussionist, and educator Matchume Zango for an afternoon of high-energy music showcasing time-honored xylophone traditions with a contemporary twist.
Join velvet-voiced singer Jonathan Gramling to discover the threads that link reggae, gospel, soul, and jazz. With a lineup of remixes, mashups, originals, and genre-bending covers, this group deftly and joyfully weaves a story of soul music's evolution across styles, time, and culture.
Pianist Avery Gagliano makes her Vivo Performing Arts debut with an audacious program showcasing her prodigious command of mood and structure: from luminous to relentless, gauzy to percussive, culminating in Schumann's all-encompassing Symphonic Etudes.
With a warm, honeyed alto and a folk-inflected jazz band, Lizz Wright creates original songs and covers that reflect the cultural fabric of America, inviting audiences into a musical heartland that makes anyone feel at home.
Fearless, spellbinding players, the Brentano String Quartet brings "Flights of Fugue,” a program exposing the unflinching heart of late quartets by Shostakovich and Beethoven, paired with Bach and Shostakovich fugue arrangements.
Exploring faith and spirituality through music, Castle of our Skins presents an afternoon of African American spirituals, from classics to those reimagined. Blending voice, strings, and piano, foundational spirituals published by H.T. Burleigh, James Weldon Johnson, and R. Nathaniel Dett will be woven through reimagined contemporary works by such composers as Shawn Okphebelo, Adolphus Hailstork, and Jessie Montgomery.