On May 10th we invite all our friends from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond to the Fairfax Pavilion for THE SAINT RITA SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL to celebrate Saint Rita School's new journey, the implementation of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program.
This year's Spring Benefit Concert features PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA, the 2014 Grammy Winner for Best Latin Tropical Album, a dynamic 19-piece Big Band that honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s.
Joining PMO are the amazing talents of BOCA DO RIO and THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY on this not-to-be-missed night of Salsa, Mambo, Samba and Soul!
DON'T MISS WHAT IS SURE TO BE A SELL OUT EVENT. BUY TICKETS TODAY ONLINE THROUGH CONSTANT CONTACT AT: http://conta.cc/1g5Kqrz
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:00 PM - Doors Open – Guests will be welcomed by a Cocktail Reception and Hors d'oeuvre at the historic Fairfax Pavilion and enjoy music and dancers from Central and South America. Festival Introduction by Rev. Kenneth Weare, Ph.D., Pastor of Saint Rita Church and Saint Rita School Principal, John Black.
6:30 PM - Start the night out dancing to Brazilian Samba band BOCA DO RIO– music inspired by the thousand of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba-reggae. http://www.bocadorio.com/
8:00 PM - The "California Soul" of THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY keeps the party going. This 10-Piece Bay Area Band members have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others. This performance of ABS features Special Guest Appearances by Local Marin Musicians in a non-stop performance of Funk, R&B and Soul.
9:30 PM to 11:30 PM - Fairfax will then be taken by storm by PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA – playing their Latin Big Band Sound of salsa, mambo, Latin jazz & cha cha. PMO features some of Northern California’s finest musicians, including trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian Tumalan, co-bandleaders. http://pacificmambo.com/
Appetizers, desserts and other refreshments will be available throughout the evening. A cash bar will also be available. The raffle will give you a chance to win one of three great International-Themed baskets and the winner of The Saint Rita School Cash Raffle will be announced on this festive night!
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014
The festival spotlights artists who represent diverse global styles, from traditional and folk to hybrid acts that incorporate classical, rock, latin jazz, electronic dance music and hip-hop influences.
MORE ABOUT THE 2014 PERFORMERS
PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA
"The sound of the new Mambo"
San Francisco's 19-Piece Latin Big Band
Headlining the 2014 Saint Rita International Music Festival is Pacific Mambo Orchestra, directed by Christian Tumalan & Steffen Kuehn. PMO’s sizzling, self-titled debut honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s, including Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez, while infusing them with an intoxicating new energy. Richly textured arrangements flow through the entire production, with exquisite playing by ace musicians. With a repertoire of mostly original scores, the selections move in a frenetic pace, pulsing with the sounds, rhythms and beats that only a true Big Band is capable of producing.
Pacific Mambo Orchestra is currently the only fully active Latin Big Band on the West Coast. PMO’s instrumentation consists of four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, piano, bass, timbales, congas, bongos and the female lead singer Alexis Guillen. PMO’s members have performed and/or recorded with the industry’s biggest names, including Carlos Santana, Ray DeLa Paz, Jose Lugo Guasabara Orchestra, Los Adolescentes, Isaac Delgado, Gilberto Santarosa, Tito Rojas, La India, Victor Manuelle and many others.
THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY "The Retro Beat of California Soul"
The Atomic Beat Society is funk vocals wrapped up in a super-charged horn section with bad-azzed bass & guitar shredded madness anchored by a fat drum beat.
This new incarnation of Cathey Cotten and Elliott's Evil Plan is a 10-Piece funky Big Band striking a fine balance between exciting arrangements and fiery instrumental solos with stimulating multi-layered choir-like vocals that swirl over the top. The Atomic Beat Society's has a fresh take on classic grooves to keep fans on the dance floor. Whether they are performing dance songs from the 70s that have a political bite and a gospel soul or funky arrangements of tunes by Issak Hayes, Stevie Wonder or the Beatles, the band never fails to delight with their feel-good, high-energy hybrid of funk, soul and jazz.
The Atomic Beat Society's funky and energetic melodies prove that, even in this day and age of plastic radio sounds, Soul and Funk are alive and thriving. Members of ABS have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others.
Cathey Cotten (bandleader, vocals), Elliott Shannonhouse (music director, lead guitar), John-Paul McLean (bass), John Kirkman (drums), Ron Ransford (percussion) and Ron Mathews (keys/vocals). Alongside this core group, ABS features the finest horn section from the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Ray Clement (alto sax), Rich Armstrong (trumpet/vocals), Rob Zuckerman (tenor sax), and Randy Johnson (bari sax).
BOCA do RIO
Boca do Rio is música orgânica. Live music inspired by the thousands of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba, baião, samba-reggae, the dances for the orishas, and all that gives homage to the beats. It is the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses – it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish.
Kevin Welch, Boca’s leader, composer, guitarist, and vocalist, embodies this concept by virtue of his personal and musical history, having lived in the Amazon and become fluent in Portuguese as well as immersed in – and transformed by – samba. In the mid-1990s he started the group Vivendo de Pão, which became a mainstay on San Francisco’s club and festival scene and opened for touring acts like Macy Gray and Los Van Van. For Boca do Rio, Welch has assembled a superb team of Brazilian and American musicians to give voice to his vibrant compositions, which he terms música organica – music that is explicitly influenced by his connection to Brazil but filtered through the sensibilities of his California base, which he shares with his versatile accompanists and musical partners.
Band Members include Alex Calatayud (pandeiro), John Evans (bass), Scott Johnson (drums), Kevin Welch (guitar & vocals), Larry De La Cruz (sax).
ABOUT SAINT RITA SCHOOL'S
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAM
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program (PYP) at St. Rita (K-5) is an approach to learning that makes an existing curriculum (such as the Common Core) more meaningful, more useful, and more connected to real life issues. In this program, St. Rita School guide students to think more critically, more independently, and more creatively. They make connections between the different subjects they learn, and they learn how to apply their skills to solve real world problems. Students are taught to care more about the people around them and to see and appreciate their commonalities and differences. The PYP is a project-based, inquiry-based approach to learning that prepares students for the project-based nature of the Middle School Engineering Program.
St. Rita School aims to be an educational leader in Marin County and is committed to providing a values-based, global education that prepares students to make a difference in their local communities and in the international society of the 21st century. This commitment is aligned with the International Baccalaureate’s aim to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
For More Information on Saint Rita School visit us at facebook.com/stritaschool.fairfax or strita.edu
Come out and support the Saint Rita School Global Initiative at the inaugural International Music Festival 2014 as we celebrate Saint Rita Schools International Baccalaureate Program aimed at exposing students to other cultures and prepares our students to compete in the global market place.
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This year's Spring Benefit Concert features PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA, the 2014 Grammy Winner for Best Latin Tropical Album, a dynamic 19-piece Big Band that honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s.
Joining PMO are the amazing talents of BOCA DO RIO and THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY on this not-to-be-missed night of Salsa, Mambo, Samba and Soul!
DON'T MISS WHAT IS SURE TO BE A SELL OUT EVENT. BUY TICKETS TODAY ONLINE THROUGH CONSTANT CONTACT AT: http://conta.cc/1g5Kqrz
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:00 PM - Doors Open – Guests will be welcomed by a Cocktail Reception and Hors d'oeuvre at the historic Fairfax Pavilion and enjoy music and dancers from Central and South America. Festival Introduction by Rev. Kenneth Weare, Ph.D., Pastor of Saint Rita Church and Saint Rita School Principal, John Black.
6:30 PM - Start the night out dancing to Brazilian Samba band BOCA DO RIO– music inspired by the thousand of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba-reggae. http://www.bocadorio.com/
8:00 PM - The "California Soul" of THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY keeps the party going. This 10-Piece Bay Area Band members have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others. This performance of ABS features Special Guest Appearances by Local Marin Musicians in a non-stop performance of Funk, R&B and Soul.
9:30 PM to 11:30 PM - Fairfax will then be taken by storm by PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA – playing their Latin Big Band Sound of salsa, mambo, Latin jazz & cha cha. PMO features some of Northern California’s finest musicians, including trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian Tumalan, co-bandleaders. http://pacificmambo.com/
Appetizers, desserts and other refreshments will be available throughout the evening. A cash bar will also be available. The raffle will give you a chance to win one of three great International-Themed baskets and the winner of The Saint Rita School Cash Raffle will be announced on this festive night!
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014
The festival spotlights artists who represent diverse global styles, from traditional and folk to hybrid acts that incorporate classical, rock, latin jazz, electronic dance music and hip-hop influences.
MORE ABOUT THE 2014 PERFORMERS
PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA
"The sound of the new Mambo"
San Francisco's 19-Piece Latin Big Band
Headlining the 2014 Saint Rita International Music Festival is Pacific Mambo Orchestra, directed by Christian Tumalan & Steffen Kuehn. PMO’s sizzling, self-titled debut honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s, including Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez, while infusing them with an intoxicating new energy. Richly textured arrangements flow through the entire production, with exquisite playing by ace musicians. With a repertoire of mostly original scores, the selections move in a frenetic pace, pulsing with the sounds, rhythms and beats that only a true Big Band is capable of producing.
Pacific Mambo Orchestra is currently the only fully active Latin Big Band on the West Coast. PMO’s instrumentation consists of four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, piano, bass, timbales, congas, bongos and the female lead singer Alexis Guillen. PMO’s members have performed and/or recorded with the industry’s biggest names, including Carlos Santana, Ray DeLa Paz, Jose Lugo Guasabara Orchestra, Los Adolescentes, Isaac Delgado, Gilberto Santarosa, Tito Rojas, La India, Victor Manuelle and many others.
THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY "The Retro Beat of California Soul"
The Atomic Beat Society is funk vocals wrapped up in a super-charged horn section with bad-azzed bass & guitar shredded madness anchored by a fat drum beat.
This new incarnation of Cathey Cotten and Elliott's Evil Plan is a 10-Piece funky Big Band striking a fine balance between exciting arrangements and fiery instrumental solos with stimulating multi-layered choir-like vocals that swirl over the top. The Atomic Beat Society's has a fresh take on classic grooves to keep fans on the dance floor. Whether they are performing dance songs from the 70s that have a political bite and a gospel soul or funky arrangements of tunes by Issak Hayes, Stevie Wonder or the Beatles, the band never fails to delight with their feel-good, high-energy hybrid of funk, soul and jazz.
The Atomic Beat Society's funky and energetic melodies prove that, even in this day and age of plastic radio sounds, Soul and Funk are alive and thriving. Members of ABS have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others.
Cathey Cotten (bandleader, vocals), Elliott Shannonhouse (music director, lead guitar), John-Paul McLean (bass), John Kirkman (drums), Ron Ransford (percussion) and Ron Mathews (keys/vocals). Alongside this core group, ABS features the finest horn section from the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Ray Clement (alto sax), Rich Armstrong (trumpet/vocals), Rob Zuckerman (tenor sax), and Randy Johnson (bari sax).
BOCA do RIO
Boca do Rio is música orgânica. Live music inspired by the thousands of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba, baião, samba-reggae, the dances for the orishas, and all that gives homage to the beats. It is the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses – it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish.
Kevin Welch, Boca’s leader, composer, guitarist, and vocalist, embodies this concept by virtue of his personal and musical history, having lived in the Amazon and become fluent in Portuguese as well as immersed in – and transformed by – samba. In the mid-1990s he started the group Vivendo de Pão, which became a mainstay on San Francisco’s club and festival scene and opened for touring acts like Macy Gray and Los Van Van. For Boca do Rio, Welch has assembled a superb team of Brazilian and American musicians to give voice to his vibrant compositions, which he terms música organica – music that is explicitly influenced by his connection to Brazil but filtered through the sensibilities of his California base, which he shares with his versatile accompanists and musical partners.
Band Members include Alex Calatayud (pandeiro), John Evans (bass), Scott Johnson (drums), Kevin Welch (guitar & vocals), Larry De La Cruz (sax).
ABOUT SAINT RITA SCHOOL'S
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAM
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program (PYP) at St. Rita (K-5) is an approach to learning that makes an existing curriculum (such as the Common Core) more meaningful, more useful, and more connected to real life issues. In this program, St. Rita School guide students to think more critically, more independently, and more creatively. They make connections between the different subjects they learn, and they learn how to apply their skills to solve real world problems. Students are taught to care more about the people around them and to see and appreciate their commonalities and differences. The PYP is a project-based, inquiry-based approach to learning that prepares students for the project-based nature of the Middle School Engineering Program.
St. Rita School aims to be an educational leader in Marin County and is committed to providing a values-based, global education that prepares students to make a difference in their local communities and in the international society of the 21st century. This commitment is aligned with the International Baccalaureate’s aim to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
For More Information on Saint Rita School visit us at facebook.com/stritaschool.fairfax or strita.edu
Come out and support the Saint Rita School Global Initiative at the inaugural International Music Festival 2014 as we celebrate Saint Rita Schools International Baccalaureate Program aimed at exposing students to other cultures and prepares our students to compete in the global market place.
On May 10th we invite all our friends from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond to the Fairfax Pavilion for THE SAINT RITA SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL to celebrate Saint Rita School's new journey, the implementation of the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program.
This year's Spring Benefit Concert features PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA, the 2014 Grammy Winner for Best Latin Tropical Album, a dynamic 19-piece Big Band that honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s.
Joining PMO are the amazing talents of BOCA DO RIO and THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY on this not-to-be-missed night of Salsa, Mambo, Samba and Soul!
DON'T MISS WHAT IS SURE TO BE A SELL OUT EVENT. BUY TICKETS TODAY ONLINE THROUGH CONSTANT CONTACT AT: http://conta.cc/1g5Kqrz
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:00 PM - Doors Open – Guests will be welcomed by a Cocktail Reception and Hors d'oeuvre at the historic Fairfax Pavilion and enjoy music and dancers from Central and South America. Festival Introduction by Rev. Kenneth Weare, Ph.D., Pastor of Saint Rita Church and Saint Rita School Principal, John Black.
6:30 PM - Start the night out dancing to Brazilian Samba band BOCA DO RIO– music inspired by the thousand of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba-reggae. http://www.bocadorio.com/
8:00 PM - The "California Soul" of THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY keeps the party going. This 10-Piece Bay Area Band members have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others. This performance of ABS features Special Guest Appearances by Local Marin Musicians in a non-stop performance of Funk, R&B and Soul.
9:30 PM to 11:30 PM - Fairfax will then be taken by storm by PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA – playing their Latin Big Band Sound of salsa, mambo, Latin jazz & cha cha. PMO features some of Northern California’s finest musicians, including trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian Tumalan, co-bandleaders. http://pacificmambo.com/
Appetizers, desserts and other refreshments will be available throughout the evening. A cash bar will also be available. The raffle will give you a chance to win one of three great International-Themed baskets and the winner of The Saint Rita School Cash Raffle will be announced on this festive night!
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014
The festival spotlights artists who represent diverse global styles, from traditional and folk to hybrid acts that incorporate classical, rock, latin jazz, electronic dance music and hip-hop influences.
MORE ABOUT THE 2014 PERFORMERS
PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA
"The sound of the new Mambo"
San Francisco's 19-Piece Latin Big Band
Headlining the 2014 Saint Rita International Music Festival is Pacific Mambo Orchestra, directed by Christian Tumalan & Steffen Kuehn. PMO’s sizzling, self-titled debut honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s, including Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez, while infusing them with an intoxicating new energy. Richly textured arrangements flow through the entire production, with exquisite playing by ace musicians. With a repertoire of mostly original scores, the selections move in a frenetic pace, pulsing with the sounds, rhythms and beats that only a true Big Band is capable of producing.
Pacific Mambo Orchestra is currently the only fully active Latin Big Band on the West Coast. PMO’s instrumentation consists of four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, piano, bass, timbales, congas, bongos and the female lead singer Alexis Guillen. PMO’s members have performed and/or recorded with the industry’s biggest names, including Carlos Santana, Ray DeLa Paz, Jose Lugo Guasabara Orchestra, Los Adolescentes, Isaac Delgado, Gilberto Santarosa, Tito Rojas, La India, Victor Manuelle and many others.
THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY "The Retro Beat of California Soul"
The Atomic Beat Society is funk vocals wrapped up in a super-charged horn section with bad-azzed bass & guitar shredded madness anchored by a fat drum beat.
This new incarnation of Cathey Cotten and Elliott's Evil Plan is a 10-Piece funky Big Band striking a fine balance between exciting arrangements and fiery instrumental solos with stimulating multi-layered choir-like vocals that swirl over the top. The Atomic Beat Society's has a fresh take on classic grooves to keep fans on the dance floor. Whether they are performing dance songs from the 70s that have a political bite and a gospel soul or funky arrangements of tunes by Issak Hayes, Stevie Wonder or the Beatles, the band never fails to delight with their feel-good, high-energy hybrid of funk, soul and jazz.
The Atomic Beat Society's funky and energetic melodies prove that, even in this day and age of plastic radio sounds, Soul and Funk are alive and thriving. Members of ABS have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others.
Cathey Cotten (bandleader, vocals), Elliott Shannonhouse (music director, lead guitar), John-Paul McLean (bass), John Kirkman (drums), Ron Ransford (percussion) and Ron Mathews (keys/vocals). Alongside this core group, ABS features the finest horn section from the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Ray Clement (alto sax), Rich Armstrong (trumpet/vocals), Rob Zuckerman (tenor sax), and Randy Johnson (bari sax).
BOCA do RIO
Boca do Rio is música orgânica. Live music inspired by the thousands of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba, baião, samba-reggae, the dances for the orishas, and all that gives homage to the beats. It is the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses – it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish.
Kevin Welch, Boca’s leader, composer, guitarist, and vocalist, embodies this concept by virtue of his personal and musical history, having lived in the Amazon and become fluent in Portuguese as well as immersed in – and transformed by – samba. In the mid-1990s he started the group Vivendo de Pão, which became a mainstay on San Francisco’s club and festival scene and opened for touring acts like Macy Gray and Los Van Van. For Boca do Rio, Welch has assembled a superb team of Brazilian and American musicians to give voice to his vibrant compositions, which he terms música organica – music that is explicitly influenced by his connection to Brazil but filtered through the sensibilities of his California base, which he shares with his versatile accompanists and musical partners.
Band Members include Alex Calatayud (pandeiro), John Evans (bass), Scott Johnson (drums), Kevin Welch (guitar & vocals), Larry De La Cruz (sax).
ABOUT SAINT RITA SCHOOL'S
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAM
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program (PYP) at St. Rita (K-5) is an approach to learning that makes an existing curriculum (such as the Common Core) more meaningful, more useful, and more connected to real life issues. In this program, St. Rita School guide students to think more critically, more independently, and more creatively. They make connections between the different subjects they learn, and they learn how to apply their skills to solve real world problems. Students are taught to care more about the people around them and to see and appreciate their commonalities and differences. The PYP is a project-based, inquiry-based approach to learning that prepares students for the project-based nature of the Middle School Engineering Program.
St. Rita School aims to be an educational leader in Marin County and is committed to providing a values-based, global education that prepares students to make a difference in their local communities and in the international society of the 21st century. This commitment is aligned with the International Baccalaureate’s aim to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
For More Information on Saint Rita School visit us at facebook.com/stritaschool.fairfax or strita.edu
Come out and support the Saint Rita School Global Initiative at the inaugural International Music Festival 2014 as we celebrate Saint Rita Schools International Baccalaureate Program aimed at exposing students to other cultures and prepares our students to compete in the global market place.
read more
This year's Spring Benefit Concert features PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA, the 2014 Grammy Winner for Best Latin Tropical Album, a dynamic 19-piece Big Band that honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s.
Joining PMO are the amazing talents of BOCA DO RIO and THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY on this not-to-be-missed night of Salsa, Mambo, Samba and Soul!
DON'T MISS WHAT IS SURE TO BE A SELL OUT EVENT. BUY TICKETS TODAY ONLINE THROUGH CONSTANT CONTACT AT: http://conta.cc/1g5Kqrz
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:00 PM - Doors Open – Guests will be welcomed by a Cocktail Reception and Hors d'oeuvre at the historic Fairfax Pavilion and enjoy music and dancers from Central and South America. Festival Introduction by Rev. Kenneth Weare, Ph.D., Pastor of Saint Rita Church and Saint Rita School Principal, John Black.
6:30 PM - Start the night out dancing to Brazilian Samba band BOCA DO RIO– music inspired by the thousand of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba-reggae. http://www.bocadorio.com/
8:00 PM - The "California Soul" of THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY keeps the party going. This 10-Piece Bay Area Band members have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others. This performance of ABS features Special Guest Appearances by Local Marin Musicians in a non-stop performance of Funk, R&B and Soul.
9:30 PM to 11:30 PM - Fairfax will then be taken by storm by PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA – playing their Latin Big Band Sound of salsa, mambo, Latin jazz & cha cha. PMO features some of Northern California’s finest musicians, including trumpeter Steffen Kuehn and pianist Christian Tumalan, co-bandleaders. http://pacificmambo.com/
Appetizers, desserts and other refreshments will be available throughout the evening. A cash bar will also be available. The raffle will give you a chance to win one of three great International-Themed baskets and the winner of The Saint Rita School Cash Raffle will be announced on this festive night!
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014
The festival spotlights artists who represent diverse global styles, from traditional and folk to hybrid acts that incorporate classical, rock, latin jazz, electronic dance music and hip-hop influences.
MORE ABOUT THE 2014 PERFORMERS
PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA
"The sound of the new Mambo"
San Francisco's 19-Piece Latin Big Band
Headlining the 2014 Saint Rita International Music Festival is Pacific Mambo Orchestra, directed by Christian Tumalan & Steffen Kuehn. PMO’s sizzling, self-titled debut honors the sounds of the great Latin Big Bands of the 1940s through 1960s, including Machito, Tito Puente and Tito Rodriguez, while infusing them with an intoxicating new energy. Richly textured arrangements flow through the entire production, with exquisite playing by ace musicians. With a repertoire of mostly original scores, the selections move in a frenetic pace, pulsing with the sounds, rhythms and beats that only a true Big Band is capable of producing.
Pacific Mambo Orchestra is currently the only fully active Latin Big Band on the West Coast. PMO’s instrumentation consists of four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones, piano, bass, timbales, congas, bongos and the female lead singer Alexis Guillen. PMO’s members have performed and/or recorded with the industry’s biggest names, including Carlos Santana, Ray DeLa Paz, Jose Lugo Guasabara Orchestra, Los Adolescentes, Isaac Delgado, Gilberto Santarosa, Tito Rojas, La India, Victor Manuelle and many others.
THE ATOMIC BEAT SOCIETY "The Retro Beat of California Soul"
The Atomic Beat Society is funk vocals wrapped up in a super-charged horn section with bad-azzed bass & guitar shredded madness anchored by a fat drum beat.
This new incarnation of Cathey Cotten and Elliott's Evil Plan is a 10-Piece funky Big Band striking a fine balance between exciting arrangements and fiery instrumental solos with stimulating multi-layered choir-like vocals that swirl over the top. The Atomic Beat Society's has a fresh take on classic grooves to keep fans on the dance floor. Whether they are performing dance songs from the 70s that have a political bite and a gospel soul or funky arrangements of tunes by Issak Hayes, Stevie Wonder or the Beatles, the band never fails to delight with their feel-good, high-energy hybrid of funk, soul and jazz.
The Atomic Beat Society's funky and energetic melodies prove that, even in this day and age of plastic radio sounds, Soul and Funk are alive and thriving. Members of ABS have performed and/or recorded with Boz Scaggs, Tower of Power, Ozomatli, Spearhead, Cold Blood, Bruce Springsteen, Narda Michael Walden, Mark Isham, the Jerry Garcia Band and many others.
Cathey Cotten (bandleader, vocals), Elliott Shannonhouse (music director, lead guitar), John-Paul McLean (bass), John Kirkman (drums), Ron Ransford (percussion) and Ron Mathews (keys/vocals). Alongside this core group, ABS features the finest horn section from the vibrant San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Ray Clement (alto sax), Rich Armstrong (trumpet/vocals), Rob Zuckerman (tenor sax), and Randy Johnson (bari sax).
BOCA do RIO
Boca do Rio is música orgânica. Live music inspired by the thousands of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba, baião, samba-reggae, the dances for the orishas, and all that gives homage to the beats. It is the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses – it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish.
Kevin Welch, Boca’s leader, composer, guitarist, and vocalist, embodies this concept by virtue of his personal and musical history, having lived in the Amazon and become fluent in Portuguese as well as immersed in – and transformed by – samba. In the mid-1990s he started the group Vivendo de Pão, which became a mainstay on San Francisco’s club and festival scene and opened for touring acts like Macy Gray and Los Van Van. For Boca do Rio, Welch has assembled a superb team of Brazilian and American musicians to give voice to his vibrant compositions, which he terms música organica – music that is explicitly influenced by his connection to Brazil but filtered through the sensibilities of his California base, which he shares with his versatile accompanists and musical partners.
Band Members include Alex Calatayud (pandeiro), John Evans (bass), Scott Johnson (drums), Kevin Welch (guitar & vocals), Larry De La Cruz (sax).
ABOUT SAINT RITA SCHOOL'S
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PRIMARY YEARS PROGRAM
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Program (PYP) at St. Rita (K-5) is an approach to learning that makes an existing curriculum (such as the Common Core) more meaningful, more useful, and more connected to real life issues. In this program, St. Rita School guide students to think more critically, more independently, and more creatively. They make connections between the different subjects they learn, and they learn how to apply their skills to solve real world problems. Students are taught to care more about the people around them and to see and appreciate their commonalities and differences. The PYP is a project-based, inquiry-based approach to learning that prepares students for the project-based nature of the Middle School Engineering Program.
St. Rita School aims to be an educational leader in Marin County and is committed to providing a values-based, global education that prepares students to make a difference in their local communities and in the international society of the 21st century. This commitment is aligned with the International Baccalaureate’s aim to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.
For More Information on Saint Rita School visit us at facebook.com/stritaschool.fairfax or strita.edu
Come out and support the Saint Rita School Global Initiative at the inaugural International Music Festival 2014 as we celebrate Saint Rita Schools International Baccalaureate Program aimed at exposing students to other cultures and prepares our students to compete in the global market place.
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142 Bolinas Rd., Fairfax, CA 94930
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