The first Cantaloupe Jazz Festival takes place between January 30th and February 5th, in Olhão, in an initiative supported by the Municipality of Olhão. Workshops, masterclass and several shows mark this first edition, organized by Cantaloupe Café in partnership with Grémio das Músicas.
Since its opening in June 2006, Cantaloupe Café, located in Mercados de Olhão, has been promoting jazz and related music, with regular live music programming, developed the initiative “Sundays at sunset” and joined to Grémio das Músicas in organizing workshops and jam sessions, bringing to the Algarve public the most varied regional, national, and foreign artists.
Following the work developed, Cantaloupe Café, in partnership with Grémio das Músicas, the Real Marina Hotel and with the support of the Municipality of Olhão, organizes the first Cantaloupe Jazz Festival, between January 30th and February 5th, 2012. During This week, jazz is the star in Olhão, with concerts by national and international musicians, workshops, masterclass and jam sessions.
The workshops and masterclass, coordinated by Associação Grémio das Músicas, take place between January 30th and February 4th, 2012. Between February 1st and 4th, the Real Marina Hotel joins this party, offering a jazz-dinner with the pianist and composer João Galante who will present his latest work, “Standards à la Carte”, in a piano show
Concerts at the Cantaloupe Café start on Wednesday, the 1st, at 22 pm. Several big names will spend the afternoon there at night: the musicians who recorded the first jazz album in Portugal – Rão Kyão (now) on flutes and Zé Eduardo (still) on double bass; French guitarist Remi Charmasson's trio, with Pierre François Maurin on double bass and Olivier Fauque on drums; a quartet composed of the most promising young and talented Portuguese musicians – João Firmino on guitar, Desidério Lazaro on saxophone, João Hasseldberg on double bass and Joel Silva on drums; the most awarded bluesman from the Iberian Peninsula, Mingo Balaguer on harmonica and Félix Slim on vocals and guitar. “Que Demónios” is the duo that closes the first Cantaloupe Jazz Festival on Sunday, the 00th, at 5:18.
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