The Icy Sunset Jazz…On The Roof Event – Brooklyn, N.Y. | July 15th, 2012
Jazz
engages global beats for a melodic smorgasbord in July with the “Icy
Sunset Jazz … On the Roof” event, a “Fusion-Soiree” of chic, eclectic
rhythms, poetry and Art from the US, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe and
Latin America with genres embracing and absorbing Garifuna, Reggae,
Latin, R&B, Blues and Calypso, with chances to win resort stays in
the Barbados, Jamaica and Grenada.
The event produced by SBPR
Productions, takes place on Sunday July 15th, 2012, from 6:30PM –
10:00PM at the Brooklyn Terrace Rooftop Lounge (Sheraton Hotel),
Downtown Brooklyn, and will be hosted by Ashlei Stevens of Time Warner
Cable’s “Born to Shine.”
Featured will be The Afri-Garifuna Jazz
Ensemble with James Lovell, Lucy Blanco, Terrence Butler, German
Violinist Evalou Vo and Ismel Wignall. This new, distinct musical art
form, is an inimitable, alluring fusion of Garifuna, African, African
American and European elements, using Garifuna and contemporary
instruments. The music is not only delightful, but traces and sustains
the language, love and legacy of the Garifuna people.
The Betty
Blue Jazz band, will also entertain with Latin, Calypso, Reggae, Jazz
mixes along with Blues/R&B singer E. Barclay Harris.
Barbadian
Visual Artist Chris Cumberbatch, whose clients include Steve Harvey, LL
Cool J and Malik Yoba, and has created interiors for Mansions and
Millionaires Designers’ Showcase, will lend a special ambiance to the
evening with his Art exhibition, including more than 30 pieces. “Jazzy”
event décor will be provided by Linda Lindsay and Design Schemes at
Home, an interior design house which merges urban and contemporary
design, fashioning a matchless understated elegance.
Creators of
this urbane, motley evening of silky beats, E. Barclay Harris and Sue
Bowen, came up with the concept while trying to find one place with
several genres of music, for a more aesthetically musical immersion.
Icy
Sunset Jazz seeks to celebrate, showcase and accentuate Jazz artistes,
poets, visual artists, up-and-coming imaginative minds, while supporting
charities and causes including the Garifuna Coalition, our veterans and
children and families in need.
It is an evening for enthusiasts of
the arts, not only to meet, mix and mingle, but opportunities to win
exciting getaways through the event’s resort sponsors including The
Sunset Resorts in Ocho Rios and Montego Bay in Jamaica, The Accra Beach
Hotel and Spa in Barbados and The True Blue Bay Boutique Resort in
Grenada.
For tickets and more information call 646.462.1461 or e-mail [email protected] or on facebook “Icy Sunset Jazz Event”.