Live Music Line-up for our jazz stage.

Jazz Age Stage

Lummus Park and 12th Street

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FRIDAY • JAN 13TH OPENING NIGHT SOIRÉE WITH THE CAB CALLOWAY ORCHESTRA Under the Direction of C. Calloway Brooks 8 pm - 10 pm VIP Event/By Invitation/MDPL members For MDPL Members: Dress dapper at VIP Night for a high-energy, joyous, and soulful performance ignited with audience participation by The Cab Calloway Orchestra, directed by Cab’s first-born grandson, “The Prince of Hi De Ho,” Christopher Calloway Brooks! Plus swing dance performances, mini dance lessons, and more.

SATURDAY • JAN 14TH

JULIO MONTALVO’S FABULOUS DIXIE KINGS With Guest Vocalist Shira Lee 4 pm - 6 pm • Free Event Authentic traditional New Orleans Dixieland jazz music at its finest is what you get with “The Fabulous Dixie Kings.” It is toe-tapping, swinging and infectious music, with all the classic Dixieland standards and New Orleans jazz favorites. The band leader, Latin Grammy winner Julio Montalvo, is one of the leading trombonists from the island of Cuba. Songwriter, producer, arranger and session musician, he also appears as a solo artist in which he blends Afro-Cuban rhythms with elements of modern Jazz to achieve an ingenious style— New Latin Jazz. SATURDAY • JAN 14TH THE CAB CALLOWAY ORCHESTRA Under the Direction of Christopher Calloway Brooks 8 pm - 10 pm • Free Event The Cab Calloway Orchestra, directed by Cab’s first born grandson C. Calloway Brooks, comes from the Big Band Swing Jazz Orchestra style that came bursting out of the Cotton Club and Savoy Ballroom in the Harlem Renaissance during the golden age of radio in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Growing directly out of the Louis Armstrong New Orleans Dixieland tradition, Cab Calloway and his Orchestras virtually wrote the book on the “Hot Swing” sound and the “Jump” genre, including a featured progressive approach to performance. Every day Brooks carries on the tradition of American big band music. The Cab Calloway Ochestra’s goal under C. Calloway Brooks is to expand the recognition and appreciation of its unique sound and sensibility, while maintaining the integrity of Cab’s amazing musical repertoire. They want to make sure that you “keep that Hi-De-Ho in your soul!”

SUNDAY • JAN 15TH FIU ART DECO COMBO Under the Direction of Dr. Lisanne Lyons 1:30 pm - 3 pm • Free Event Enjoy live jazz by FIU students! The FIU Art Deco Combo is directed by Dr. Lisanne Lyons and consists of vocalists and a rhythm section who perform a varied and challenging repertoire of jazz and jazz-influenced music, as well as contemporary, latin, and a cappella styles. The group emphasizes close harmonies, improvisation, cutting-edge repertoire, and new works by students and FIU faculty. They also perform music from the library of Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices, Swingle Singers, Groove for Thought, and original arrangements written by some of the finest jazz arrangers in the country. The group is open for audition for all FIU music students and all vocal jazz principles and majors. In July 2021 the group was honored with a Student Music Award from Downbeat Magazine, widely recognized as the most prestigious publication in jazz education.

SUNDAY • JAN 15TH

THE LENARD RUTLEDGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm • Free Event Captivating, soul stirring, earthy and funky— LeNard Rutledge and his jazz ensemble are Miami-based musicians who are known to entertain its listeners, and “swing the music” for dancers. Named by the Miami New Times as the “Best Jazz Artist,” Rutledge’s elegance is often permeated by the raw passion of his church choir work. The warm exchange of give and take between his dynamic stage presence and his sidemen will bring out the love for jazz that you didn’t know you had. SUNDAY • JAN 15TH

ANIBAL BERRAUTE’S MILONGA UNDER THE STARS 6 pm - 8 pm • Free Event Anibal Berraute presents a Milonga Under the Stars. Enjoy a night of Tango Fusion with special dance performances. The program is led by Berraute, an Argentinean piano player, composer, arranger, and producer, that fuses the tango with elements of other musical forms. The fusion includes the “Uruguayan candombe” with its African roots and Argentinean rhythms, traditional country folklore sounds, and American jazz among others, creating a new vibrant harmonic approach to a genre. In a little over a century, this genre transcended its humble beginnings to reach the whole world, and its concert halls to be finally declared “cultural patrimony of humanity” by the United Nations.