Orcas Center Presents on Center Stage
Orcas Island Jazz Festival:
EntreMundos Quintet
Sunday, August 24th at 5pm –Duende Libre (Free on the Village Green)
Friday, August 29th at 7pm – Greta Matassa
Saturday, August 30th at 7pm – EntreMundos Big Band
Sunday, August 31st at 7pm – Martin Lund & The Off-Island All-Stars
Tiered Ticket Pricing: $70, $45, $30
(All-in pricing: There is a $2 ticketing fee includeda in the posted price)
The Orcas Island Jazz Festival (OIJF), Orcas Island’s premier jazz event, lights up Orcas Center for three days every Labor Day weekend. OIJF is dedicated to celebrating and sharing the music of jazz with the Orcas Island community and visitors, to introducing this quintessential American art form to new young audiences through education and performance, and to raising appreciation for the art of jazz in all audiences. As a program of Orcas Center under the artistic direction of Martin Lund, OIJF consistently showcases superb jazz. Each year at this Festival audiences enjoy some of the most highly regarded jazz artists working today.
Partial funding for Orcas Island Jazz Festival is provided by the Washington State Department of Commerce and administered by Washington Festivals and Events Association in collaboration with the Washington State Arts Commission (ArtsWA).
EntreMundos Quintet
Saturday, August 30th
Concert at 7pm
EntreMundos Quintet is an electrifying Seattle-based group that brings to the stage an uplifting and kinetic mix of deep Brazilian roots flavored with world rhythms––a deft blending of funk, jazz, and soul melding with the classic sounds of samba and bossa nova. EntreMundos means “between worlds” and the group’s mélange of seductive sounds embodies their name, stirring a personal and uncommon blend into a sound with universal appeal.
With the elegant and lilting vocals of Adriana Giordano, the superbly versatile Dylan Hayes on piano, and the locked-in rhythm section of Jeff Busch on drums and percussion, Jeff Norwood on bass, and Jay Mabin on the chromatic harmonica, EntreMundos Quintet delivers the goods: seductive, sparkling and substantial, light as a feather but with a deep, earthy groove, and guaranteed to move the hips and lift the soul!
