RJS Presents Kevin Davis

Richmond Jazz Society’s Guest Educators Series Presents Master Percussionist Kevin Davis Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Richmond’s Premiere Afro-Cuban Band Ban Caribe! Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7PM Doors open at 6PM Capital Ale House Downtown Music Hall 623 East Main Street Free Deck Parking at 6th & Main Fully Accessible Full Service Restaurant Smoke-free Environment […]

February 7, 2009; 8:35 PM • by Dean Christesen

Richmond Jazz Society’s Guest Educators Series

Presents

Master Percussionist

Kevin Davis

Celebrating the 25^th Anniversary of Richmond’s Premiere Afro-Cuban Band

Ban Caribe!

Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 7PM

Doors open at 6PM

Capital Ale House

Downtown Music Hall

623 East Main Street

Free Deck Parking at 6th & Main

Fully Accessible

Full Service Restaurant

Smoke-free Environment

Advance Tickets on Sale February 2

$7 with valid RJS, Altria or Student I.D. Card

Call RJS at 804-643-1972 – Credit Card only

$10 General Public – online at www.capitalalehouse.com

$15 Everyone Day of the Show

For more info contact RJS at (804) 643-1972 or info@vajazz.org

< span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Verdana;" lang="EN">Major support for this and other RJS programs is provided by The Community Foundation – Serving Richmond and Central Virginia, Chevron Corporation, The Altria Group, Inc., The Arts & Cultural Funding Consortium: The City of Richmond and the Counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico, The Virginia Commission for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts, Verizon, Bank of America, and The ArtsFund & Its Major Investors.

Who is Kevin Davis?

Kevin Davis began his music career studying theory and percussion while growing up in the multicultural communities of New York City. He attended Virginia Sate University, studied in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and Jamaica. He has performed with a variety of regional and national groups throughout the East Coast and Hawaii. In 2006 he won the Teresa Pollack Award for excellence in the arts. For the past 25 years Davis has been the leader of Richmond’s premiere Afro-Cuban band Ban Caribe. In addition to original compositions the band plays a unique blend of music that fuses elements of Jazz, R&B, African, Latin and Caribbean into an exciting style which Davis aptly describes as Clave’ Soul.

Kevin is currently a percussion instructor at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville. Among other accomplishments he is cofounder of the World Beat Workshop, guest artist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and Young Audiences of Virginia. He is also a member of the music ministry at Ashbury Methodist and Saint James Episcopal Church.