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C<\/SPAN>uban bass player Ram\u00f3n Vazquez will offer a workshop together with various professors from the University of Music in Puerto Rico to public school children and teenagers from the north coast, as part of the ninth edition of the Dominican Jazz Festival which will take place between November 7-9 in Cabarete Beach, Puerto Plata. <\/P> Cuban bass player Ram\u00f3n Vazquez will offer a workshop together with various professors from the University of Music in Puerto Rico to public school children and teenagers from the north coast…<\/P> Ram\u00f3n Vazquez, a renowned musician and graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachussets has made records with such greats as Tito Puente, Chick Corea, Paquito D`Rivera, Giovanni Hidalgo and others. He will work with children from low income families in Puerto Plata with the goal of inculcating them with a love of music and art. The workshop \u201cIntroduction to Jazz for Young People,\u201d will take place this Saturday at 10:00 a.m. on the beach which will later be converted into a stage for Sandy Gabriel, Giovanni Hidalgo, Eric Figueroa, Tito de Gracia, Piro Rodr\u00edguez and Eddy “Guagua” Rivera. Lorenzo Sancasani, coordinator of the Jazz Festival, said that 300 children and teens had already signed up for the workshops and that they intended to provide everything necessary for the children to have a wonderful experience on the beach. Bassist Ram\u00f3n Vazquez, resident of Puerto Rico, said, \u201cFor me and for many of my colleagues, we derive great satisfaction in taking music to young people and to those children who have few opportunities like these.\u201d At midday, after Ram\u00f3n and the Puerto Rican professors finish their meeting, the children will be treated to a three-band concert given by young jazz musicians who form “Fusion Jazz Group, “Novel” and “Soulibre” The first group to take the stage will be “Fusion Jazz Group” made up of Abel Gonz\u00e1lez on bass, David Holgu\u00edn on guitar and Francis Alc\u00e1ntara on drums. They will be followed by “Novel” with Dionisio de Moya on guitar, Otoniel Vargas on drums, Kilvin Pe\u00f1a on bass and Nathanael Gonz\u00e1lez on keyboards. Finally “Soulibre” will close the workshop with Van Avakian singing and playing drums, Sina Sadeghi on keyboards and singing, Kelvin Encarnaci\u00f3n de los Santos on bass, Benaias Mart\u00ednez Artiles on guitar, V\u00edctor Otoniel on percussion and Roberto de Jes\u00fas Santana who will play clarinet and sax. The Dominican Republic Jazz Festival 08 is being held with the support of the Ministry of Tourism, Millennium Resort and Spa, Ochoa Hardware, Sea Horse Ranch, Aerodom, Europcar, Viva Resorts, Cabarete Palm Beach Condos, Coca Cola, Empaq, Villa Taina, Tropical Clubs, Dasani, Velero Beach Resort, Heineken, La Campagna, Adeca, Ashoresoca, Agualina, Servi Cab and Pomodoro. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> Jazz Workshops for Underprivileged Children to be Given in Cabarete Cuban bass player Ram\u00f3n Vazquez will offer a workshop together with various professors from the University of Music in Puerto Rico to public school children and teenagers from the north coast, as part of the ninth edition of the Dominican Jazz Festival which will take … Continue reading “Jazz Workshops for Underprivileged Children to be Given in Cabarete”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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