Ogans, Eddy Marcano Acoustic Trio, and Los Chamanes & Natalia Bernal

A one-night concert several exciting performances.

Ogans, an 11-piece Brazilian band based in NYC, consists of world-class Brazilian musicians who play Afro-Brazilian rhythms and a mix of Brazilian pop and samba, funk, hip-hop, reggae, salsa, and merengue. The band brings to the stage the rhythms of the ecstatic Carnaval of Bahia, playing an impressive variety of music that includes the group’s own compositions and the music of Brazilian icons like Carlinhos Brown, Caetano & Gil, Olodum, and Timbalada. The group was founded by Marivaldo dos Santos and Davi Vieira, two experienced performers who have traveled the world with several Brazilian groups dancing, playing percussion, and performing Capoeira.

Venezuelan conductor and violinist Eddy Marcano is recognized as one of the leading exponents of his instrument throughout the South American continent. As a performer, he is the first violinist of the Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra, a position that has won him numerous awards. He has also performed as a soloist with his country’s leading orchestras, receiving the highest accolades. He has participated in national and international festivals in almost all of Latin America, along with Germany, Spain, London, and the U.S. He is also active as an educator, serving as a professor of violin at the Simón Bolivar Conservatory of Music and the Emil Friedman School and as President of the Nueva Esparta Symphony Orchestra Foundation.

Los Chamanes serves up a musical fusion rooted in Latin American folklore and Nueva Cancion, with flavors of blues, jazz, and rock born from the spirit of friendship between these Chilean expatriates in NYC, a nostalgia for their native culture, and the magic of the Andes. The group holds a monthly residency at Terraza in Queens and has performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and for the yearly Chilean Independence celebration on Randall’s Island. In September 2008, Los Chamanes released its first album, Conjuros.

Singing original songs and jazz and Latin jazz standards in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, vocalist Natalia Bernal represents a new wave of Latin American musicians who are interpreting jazz, pop, and the music of their native countries with a distinctive fusion of Latin roots and world influences. Based in New York City since 2008, she has released La Voz de Tres with her trio Bernal/Eckroth/Ennis and has recorded on several projects with musicians from all over the word, including the Layla Angulo Latin Band, DiSanto, the Mary Ann McSweeney Quartet, Los Chamanes, and more.