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Lummus Park and 6th Street
FRIDAY • JAN 14TH
Troy Anderson got his first taste for music while growing up in a Bahamian family filled with musicians. At the age of 10, he began playing the trumpet and went on to perform in the Florida Sunshine Band and the Gospel Sounds before being introduced to the world of the drum and bugle corps in school. A later stint with the Florida Vanguards taught him how to be an effective lead soprano soloist while performing in front of thousands of screaming fans. Subsequent tours with the famous Bayonne Bridgemen Drum & Bugle Corps helped hone his showmanship skills
Anderson first fell in love with the music of Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong while playing with the 2nd AD (Fwd) Jazz Band in Germany where he was stationed as a paratrooper. Practice, however, made perfect and he soon managed to replicate Armstrong’s trademark growl with stirring accuracy. SATURDAY • JAN 15TH
FRENCH HORN COLLECTIVE 2 pm - 5:30 pm Free Event
The French Horn Collective is an energetic and progressive band that performs an eclectic variety of Gypsy Jazz, Swing, and modern original French music throughout South Florida.
Led by Parisian Musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and songwriter Vincent Raffard, the diverse group consists of talented musicians from a myriad of musical backgrounds, with instrumentation including Trumpet, Guitar, Violin, Double Bass, Clarinet, and Vocals.
The French Horn Collective’s wide variety of musical influences, ranging from Gypsy Jazz, Hot Swing, Ska, to Polka, result in the band producing a smooth mixture of progressive Gypsy/Parisian/Swing/World Music.
SUNDAY • JAN 16TH
FIU ART DECO COMBO UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR. LISANNE LYONS 12 pm - 2 pm Free Event
Lisanne’s career began immediately following high school as the featured vocalist for three Air Force bands. She has been featured with the Woody Herman Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson, Arturo Sandoval, Roanoke Symphony, Palm Beach Pops, XL Big Band in Sweden, Nantes Big Band, Los Alas Studio Orchestra, and various bands and orchestras across the country.
She teaches Studio Music and Jazz at the FIU Frost School of Music. And was founder the vocal jazz program and directed the Down Beat awardwinning vocal jazz group, the New Virginians. Created and led by bassist and bandleader Paul Shewchuk in 1999, the Swing All Stars feature a collective of top vocalists and musicians, in fact, each member is a nationally recognized artist.
They make musical magic happen for dancers and listeners alike. The Swing-Allstars were chosen to perform at prestigious events at the Perez Art Museum in Miami, and The Norton Museum’s 75th Anniversary Gala in West Palm Beach.
THE SWING-ALLSTARS 2:30 pm - 5 pm Free Event
The sensational Swing-Allstars are known as the leading South Florida-based swing band and are well known for bringing together swing dancing and great live music. ANIBAL BERRAUTE’S MILONGA UNDER THE STARS 6 pm - 8 pm Free Event
Anibal Berraute, Argentinean piano player, composer, arranger and producer, fuses the tango with elements of other musical forms: the “Uruguayan Candombe” with its African roots and Argentinean rhythms, traditional country-folklore sounds, and American jazz among others, to come out with a new vibrant harmonic approach to a genre that in a little over a century, 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.
Anibal Berraute brings to this project his experience of having been a performing member of some ofthe best orchestral units of the genre, not to mention his exceptional talent as a composer, arranger, conductor and skills as a producer for some of the leading talents of the music industry.
Where Have All the Old Postcards Gone?
By Nancy Liebman
They were the magic that brought the glamor and excitement to the emerging little place called Miami Beach. Did some mysterious TEXT MESSAGES scare them away? Could it be that they are hidden behind an evolving crowd of monstrous towers? Or could it be that the colorful POSTCARDS seemed to be out of touch for Miami Beach’s popular and glamorous up and coming future?
It seems that our famous little city is trying to become something it has never been. Perhaps it is seeking to recover from too many false starts, rather than using the brilliance of earlier simpler times to grow a stronger future. The residents of yesteryear did not have to contend with out-of-scale high-rises and a changing landscape of crime. The biggest worry was from developers trying to turn South Beach into a second Venice Canal and stopping the growing number of preservationists from saving our iconic historic properties.
It took until October 20, 1982, for the Miami Beach City “fathers” to appoint thirteen people to a Preservation Board that consisted of ten lawyers, property owners, and anyone else committed to stopping the Preservation Movement. Amazingly, three preservationists were appointed to the group even though they were referred to by some members as the “P” word.
It seems we are losing the uniqueness we built that has been recognized around the world. The problems today come in more subtle ways. No longer is the Preservation Movement called the “P” word. We are hearing more chilling words like “height” or “out of scale projects” or “demolition of two story buildings and “useless” old hotels”. We are becoming just another high-rise waterfront spectacle crowding out the ocean.
I believe if we stopped our world at this moment and took an honest look at what our little home town is becoming, we might conclude that our future could be perfect----if only we turned our attention to the conventional wisdom of the Historic Preservation Movement and how and why it enhanced our city so much. Maybe then the magic of those lost postcards would return again!
CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE ALL THE OLD POSTCARDS WENT?
