 | | Venue: | Mermaid Arts Centre |
| | Date & Hour: Saturday 30th April, 11pm | |
| | | Featuring: Snowboy (congos, percussion and band leader), David Pattman (bongos), Paul Taylor (trombone), Gary Plumley (sax), Andy Johnson (engineer), Sid Gauld (trumpet), Nico Gomez (bass), Davide Giovannini (drums, timbales, lead vocals), Neil Angilley (keyboards). | |
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| | Snowboy & The Latin Section (UK) | | Line Up: Snowboy (congos, percussion and band leader), David Pattman (bongos), Paul Taylor (trombone), Gary Plumley (sax), Andy Johnson (engineer), Sid Gauld (trumpet), Nico Gomez (bass), Davide Giovannini (drums, timbales, lead vocals), Neil Angilley (keyboards). | | | | Venue: World Stage @ Katies | | Date & Hour: , Saturday 30th April, 11pm | | Price: €12 | | | Snowboy & The Latin Section are one of the best known and most successfully Latin jazz groups working today.
A muscular nine-piece ensemble with a long history of touring that has taken them to every corner of the globe, Snowboy (aka Mark Cotgrove) makes his long awaited debut visit to Bray for a show on our World Stage, this year.
An acclaimed and award winning Afro Cuban percussionist and bandleader, Snowboy assembled his Latin Section from the cream of the UK's Latin jazz musicians over 15 years ago.
The group have carried the torch with their authentic Latin Jazz style since then, and are known for their sensational high-energy and percussively explosive uptempo live shows.
The music is exciting, energetic and thrilling, with horn arrangements and constant deep, driving bass lines a counterpoint to the ensemble's rich and hotly tropical rhythms and layers of lush arrangements.
Snowboy leads on congas and assorted Afro-Cuban beatboxes, and share centre stage with the shimmering vocals by Davide Giovanni. They are backed by a tight and talented Latin Section, whose beats, brass and keyboard accompanyment take the whole party into overdrive.
Their live shows move freely through a palate of magnificent traditional mambos, R 'n' B, rumbas, and more testing heavily jazzed numbers.
Snowboy has all the swagger and strutting machismo of a Havana bandman, and his leadership of one of the most thrilling Latin big bands working today has won his a massive following across the UK and further afield. | | |
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