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Singer/songwriter Débo Ray creates contemporary R&B music that takes inspiration from soul, jazz, gospel, Latin, and hip hop. This versatile vocalist infuses covers and originals with storytelling, nuance, and fearless originality.
In a Vivo Performing Arts debut not to be missed, Boston-based pianist Yoko Miwa arrives at Neighborhood Arts with her celebrated trio bringing their signature clarity, strength, and poetry. From luminous joy to notes that fall and shimmer like rain or teardrops, Miwa is renowned around the world for giving each piece its own indelible landscape of emotion.
Boston's Modern Connections Collective presents excerpts from four powerful works by choreographer and founder Jenny Oliver. Rooted in moments of empowerment and guided by themes of connection, these pieces invite audiences to come together as stories of relationship and resilience unfold through the language of movement.
Refresh the spirit and feel the brisk, gleeful embrace of Celtic and American folk music with fiddler Maura Shawn Scanlon and guitarist Conor Hearn, as the duo Rakish, and Rasa String Quartet. Scanlon, a virtuoso fiddler as well as an acclaimed classical violinist, is a member of both ensembles, and all the musicians on stage play everything—programs often include chamber music, pop covers, originals, and traditional music—with elegance, spontaneity, and style.
Experience the alchemy that unfolds when traditional and contemporary Brazilian music styles meet jazz in this must-see performance by the Fernando Brandão Quartet. Choros, bossas, sambas, and more are the canvas for Brandão and his quartet's vibrant improvisations in this exhilarating afternoon of global connections.
Gregory Groover's music is rooted in the idea of community, connectedness, and, as he put it in an interview, "the idea that sound could move people closer to something greater than themselves." Groover, whose previous work includes reimagining African American spirituals and an album of love songs and songs of people he loves, brings the personal and the historical together in his newest program. In North to Boston, he's inspired by the stories of members of his home church—people he's known for years—who migrated to Boston between World War II and the 1980s.
A Berklee Global Jazz Institute graduate and Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation Ambassador, vocalist and songwriter Manuela Sánchez Goubert draws on the rich rhythms of South American folk music, weaving them into the language of contemporary jazz. Singing in Spanish and Portuguese, she leads her ensemble with bold imagination and boundary defying originality. Free and open to all!
Zambra Collective creates music through improvisation, deep listening, and shared creative language. The award-winning quintet draws its creativity from expansive musical practices rooted in flamenco, Romani, Persian classical, Indian, Catalan, and jazz traditions. Winners of the 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival Call for New Works Award, Zambra’s performances invite listeners into intimate sonic spaces of connection, curiosity, trust, discovery, and sisterhood.
As part of his Roxbury Artist-in-Residence program, saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins joins trumpeter Jason Palmer for a free neighborhood performance. The concert features the premiere of a song Wilkins will create inspired by Boston history and culture.
A beloved cultural leader in Boston, Veronica Robles is known for her powerful voice, joyful stage presence, and dedication to sharing the richness of Latin American music and dance. Not only is this an uplifting afternoon rife with rhythm, color and celebration, it's also an opportunity to experience the spirit and energy of mariachi with community.