Music To Your Ears At Sleepless Night

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2009

Sleepless Night will be Music to Your Ears -- Schedule includes a Variety of Musical Performances All Night Long -Miami Beach, FL – Music from every genre, from classical to electronica, dominates Audi Sleepless Night’s program. Miami Beach’s free, 13-hour, dusk-til-dawn, citywide celebration of the arts begins at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 7. Rock’n’roll, salsa, New Orleans jazz and new age multimedia performance art are among the more than 21 musical performances that will be heard throughout the night. and 150 unforgettable other arts and entertainment experiences presented for all tastes and all ages, all night long, all for free. NORMANDY FOUNTAIN STAGE Ben Neill and LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots), 6:00 p.m. Ben Neill is a composer, performer, producer and inventor of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. He has recorded seven CDs and has performed at every important new music festival in the world. LEMUR, the creation of musician and computer programmer Eric Singer, showcases cutting-edge technology – not as a gimmick, but to create a new kind of performance experience and a new means of musical expression. LEMUR’s exotic, sculptural musical instruments integrate robotic technology and play themselves. Benneill.com; lemurbots.org Felipe Lamoglia Sextet “New Dimensions in Afro-Cuban Beats,” 10:00 p.m. Grammy-winning saxophonist Felipe Lamoglia has led a music career in Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, performing with the likes of Arturo Sandoval and Celia Cruz. His style reflects the musical traditions of each country and, with his sextet, he’ll present a concert that shows what American Jazz and Brazilian Samba can do to traditional AfroCuban beats. kccproductions.com Silvano Monasterios and the Fourth World Ensemble, 11:00 p.m. This year, the Miami New Times voted Caracas-born pianist Silvano Monasterios the “Best Jazz Musician in Miami.” He has performed with some of the most prominent jazz musicians of both Venezuela and the United States and won several awards as a solo performer. kccproductions.com NORTH BEACH BAND SHELL Miami Lyric Opera “La Traviata,” 7:00 p.m.

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Miami Lyric Opera brings the opera to the public with their production of the Giuseppe Verdi opera, “La Traviata” with full cast and orchestra. The show will be performed outdoors at the North Beach Band Shell. The young company, established in 2004, has a lot to offer and is excited to build an audience of new opera lovers. miamilyricopera.org RHYTHM FOUNDATION STAGE AT 21 STREET BEACH Grupo Embalo, 8:00 p.m. The Grupo Embalo Brazilian Samba Band and Dancers started out as a group of friends who liked to play at parties for fun. Since they went professional in 2000, they have become one of South Florida’s most exciting samba bands. Jacob Jeffries Band, 9:10 p.m. The 19-year-old leader of the Jacob Jeffries Band has already been compared to such artists as Ben Folds, Billy Joel, and John Lennon. His band has recently played at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah and the SXSW Festival in Austin. www.myspace.com/jacobjeffriesband Lanzallamas Monofonica, 10:20 p.m. The eight-piece ensemble of Lanzallamas brings the beat to world music. Their mission is “to create music of ‘monophonic essence,’ a one sound that unifies all.” They combine musical influences (and languages) from around the world to get everyone in the audience dancing. lanzamusica.com DJ Le Spam + Spam All Stars, Midnight DJ Le Spam and the Spam All Stars combine Latin, Funk, and Hip-Hop for what they call “electronica descarga.” Their Fuacata Live! album was nominated for a Latin Grammy, and the DJ and All Stars routinely draw crowds when they perform at Miami clubs. spamallstars.com FILLMORE MIAMI BEACH AT THE JACKIE GLEASON THEATER Global Cuba Fest and Cuban Quarter Dance Party 6:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m. Start the evening off right with Boston-based jazz saxophonist Carlos Averhoff Jr. and his Quartet. Then it’s Miami vs. New York in this battle of the dance bands! FUNDarte, Miami Light Project and Global Cuba Fest showcase the best of contemporary and timehonored Cuban dance rhythms with two extraordinary orchestras: Br@ily, the Miamibased timba and salsa trombonist/singer, and from New York, vocalist Jose “Pepito” Gomez, hailed by the New York Times as “another order of performer…excellent!” MEGA TV will provide guest emcees, and DJs keep your feet moving when the bands aren’t playing. fundarte.us EUCLID OVAL STAGE Beach High Rock Ensemble, 6:00 p.m. For 37 years, the Beach High Rock Ensemble of Miami Beach Senior High has offered high school students the chance to be rock stars. Director Doug Burris has led the ensemble since its creation in 1972 and has taken the group to perform across the country and around the world. rockensemble.com JETSTREAM, 6:45 p.m. This is what happens to Rock Ensemble members when they grow up. JETSTREAM is a Miami Beach-based alternative rock group whose members are all alumni of the Rock Ensemble. They have played at the legendary Rock-n-roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and presently perform throughout the state of Florida. Dr. Michael White Quartet, 8:00 p.m. We are committed to providing excellent public service and safety to all who live, work and play in our vibrant, tropical, historic community.

Dr. Michael White and his Quartet bring the styles of New Orleans Jazz to Miami. White is a classically trained clarinetist who was discovered in the French Quarter as a teenager. Since then, he has dedicated his musical career to preserving the essence of New Orleans jazz. kccproductions.com South Florida Jazz Orchestra, 10:00 p.m. Chuck Bergeron’s South Florida Jazz Orchestra is bringing back big band jazz. The sixteen members of the band first got together in 2006 and have been playing the jazz scene in Miami ever since. southfloridajazzorchestra.com LINCOLN THEATRE New World Symphony, 7:30 p.m. (Limited seating – tickets required) Jeffrey Milarsky conducts “New York State of Mind: Sounds of the Times,” showcasing the musical artistry featured so prominently at New York’s Bang on a Can Festival. Tickets are available on a “first come, first served” basis at the Sleepless Night information tent on Lincoln Road at Washington Avenue beginning at 6 p.m. MIAMI BEACH COMMUNITY CHURCH Seraphic Fire , 10:00 p.m. (Limited seating – first come, first served) Experience this acclaimed chamber choir’s annual American gospel and folk music event, “I’ll Fly Away.” Gramophone Magazine has called Seraphic Fire “one of the most exciting and unexpected developments on the local scene.” The choir emerged on the classical music scene in 2002 to critical acclaim and had amazing successes in the following eight seasons. seraphicfire.org OCEAN DRIVE MAIN STAGE (Between 8 + 9 Streets) Oy-Lé! , 6:30 p.m. Arts Inside the Open Tent presents this convergence of Klezmer and flamenco, featuring Siempre Flamenco and the Heavy Shtetl Klezmer Trio. Theopentent.org Deep Surface, 9:00 p.m. Composer Gabriel E. Pulido presents his “homage to the sea” with a multimedia concert that combines electronic and live music with dance and video-sculptures. This premier performance is sponsored by the Ocean Foundation and the Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO. deep-surface.org South Beach Chamber Ensemble with La Guardia, Name Brand, Etagweyo Vincent Onokurte, Shri and Carlos Pintado, 10:00 p.m. The South Beach Chamber Ensemble, best known for presenting “beautiful music in beautiful spaces,” enters a new kind of space with Hip Hop artist La Guardia, drum machines by Name Brand, African drummer/dancer Etagweyo Vincent Onokurte and Indian percussionist Shri. Carlos Pintado is the 2006 winner of the International Prize for Poetry Sant Jordi. sobechamberensemble.org SoBe Arts “Tunes & Toons,” 5:30 a.m. Do not miss this quasi-qwazy pre-dawn extravaganza of classic cartoons and live music, featuring the SoBe Arts Chamber Ensemble and the SoBe Arts Jazz Ensemble. Cartoons at dawn is a ritual American experience. SoBe Arts brings Sleepless Night to a colorful close by celebrating a visual art form that has long embraced both jazz and classical music. A blend of film projections and live performances with a late-late cabaret set – one that does not cater to children, veering from comic to provocative and hallucinatory. Welcome the Technicolor dawn skies with hues of the postmodern, orchestral standards twisted and re-imagined into the loony tunes, merry melodies and

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irreverent reveries of a golden age of animation. It’s the perfect way to start the day – or end the night! www.sobearts.org OCEAN DRIVE MASS ENSEMBLE STAGE (Lummus Park between 6 + 7 Streets) MASS Ensemble Four shows: 7:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m., 2:30 a.m., 6:00 a.m. This world-renowned group has literally created its own performance genre – an elegant and high-impact blend of amazing lights, music, sculpture, dance and visual art. Unique, fantastic instruments include the Earth Harp, whose strings will cross Ocean Drive to the very top of the Park Central Hotel. The full group performs the first three shows; the 6:00 a.m. show is a yoga class led by MASS member Andrea Brook and featuring the Earth Harp. Presented by Classical South Florida 89.7 FM. massensemble.com WOLFSONIAN-FIU FLEA Ensemble, 6:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Florida International University’s Laptop & Electronic Arts (FLEA) Ensemble presents exciting new work and reinterprets classics of the avant-garde by combining hi-fi and lo-fi technologies. Each piece offers new and innovative ways of interacting and performing with technology. www.wolfsonian.org Sleepless Night is a sundown-to-sunrise, free arts celebration. It is produced by the City of Miami Beach Department of Tourism and Cultural Development and Cultural Arts Council in collaboration with every cultural organization in the city, together with private businesses and individuals. It offers free museum admissions, indoor and outdoor art installations and performances, architectural tours, dance (and dancing,) theater, music, film, slam poetry, fashion shows, acrobatics, comedy and other cultural offerings, all presented without admission charge at over 80 different venues spread throughout the city and the 13-hour night. Free shuttle buses with onboard arts programming connect the various zones of activity and remote parking for the duration of the event. The last Sleepless Night (2007) presented more than 130 arts and entertainment events to over 100,000 residents and visitors of all ages. “It was the best multi-genre arts event I’ve ever enjoyed here in South Florida – in over three decades!” said Ed Bell, producer and host of WLRN 91.3FM’s “South Florida Arts Beat.” “Sleepless Night will prove to be South Florida’s premiere annual arts extravaganza.” The full program is available online at www.sleeplessnight.org, and will be available in printed form at locations throughout the Greater Miami area on October 26.

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