This summer Newburyport will sizzle when the Latin sounds of Sol y Canto come to the Firehouse Center, Market Square, Newburyport on Saturday, June 19 at 8pm. Tickets are $21 for Members, students and seniors; $24 for adults, and may be purchased at the Box Office, by calling 978/462-7336 or visiting the website at www.firehouse.org.
Sol y Canto is the creative team of Brian and Rosi Amador who, together with other Latin American musicians, will bring the warmth of the Caribbean sun directly to the Firehouse stage. Composer and MacDowell-Fellow, Brian’s newest multi-media, pan-Latin musical suite is about a favorite topic - food! The program, entitled Sabor y Memoria (Flavor and Memory), touches on issues of memory and nostalgia for one’s home country, immigration, hunger, cooking, and of course, chocolate! The program, will explore how individuals are changed by a new environment at the same time they reshape their new surroundings. The singers and the instruments will be voices in a dialog that celebrates the diversity of Latin cultures and the way they affect each other, and the dominant culture, in the process of assimilating to a new life in the US. Additionally, issues such as sustainable agriculture, the slow food movement, hunger, the global food crisis and the scarcity of healthy foods in US inner city areas will be explored through musical selections performed by the group.
Sol y Canto’s composer, Brian Amador, a self-reported Chicano/Gringo mongrel from Albuquerque, NM; has studied classical guitar, composition and improvisation at the New England Conservatory in Boston and was a recent participant in the MacDowell Art Colony. Brian’s guitar style is as mixed as his heritage, combining flamenco, classical, a wide variety of Latin American styles and jazz. Rosi Amador, Brian’s partner in music and in marriage, lends her talents as a vocalist and a percussionist to the group.
Since 1994, Sol y Canto has brought audiences to their feet from the Kennedy Center to the White House, the California World Music Festival to Boston's Symphony Hall, Puerto Rico's Museo de Arte to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Boston Globe hails them as "Sublime ambassadors of pan-Latin tradition … destined for international renown. Rosi has a voice like clean spring water: it's smooth, it's clear and, somehow, you come to believe that it's necessary for life."
Treat yourself to one of life’s necessities – come bask in the Sol y Canto sound at the Firehouse and take your soul on a little Latino vacation.
About Brian Amador: Of Mexican heritage, born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Brian was a founding member, arranger and co-producer of two albums with Flor de Caña. In 1995 he received a highly competitive artist grant awarded to the state's "exceptional artists" by the Massachusetts Cultural Council for music composition. He was the first Latino composer to be commissioned by the Celebrity Series of Boston. He studied classical guitar and improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and flamenco guitar in Madrid, Spain. For five years, he was principal guitarist for the Ramon de los Reyes Spanish Dance Theater. He has spent the last ten years adapting his classical and flamenco technique to different Latin American musical styles, incorporating influences from Africa and the French and English speaking islands of the Caribbean. Recently he was selected as a MacDowell Artist Colony Fellow. He is the group’s primary composer of original songs.
About Rosi Amador: Rosi is the Company Director of Sol y Canto, as well as the lead vocals, bongo player and percussionist. Of Argentine and Puerto Rican heritage, Rosi was raised by performer parents, who passed on to her their love of Latin American rhythms and musical styles. Her mother was a dancer, singer and actress, appearing in the U.S. and Europe with Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, among others, and in Mexico with comic actor "Cantinflas" (Mario Moreno). Her father began in radio in Buenos Aires and later became an actor, touring all over Latin America. With ten years of training as a soprano, Rosi was one of award-winning Flor de Caña's founding members and manager for ten years. She has been deeply influenced by popular Latin music, jazz, North American folk, blues and contemporary African vocal styles. With her husband she joyfully parents identical twin daughters Sonia and Alisa, born in April 1996.
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