FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: William Cepeda Afro-Rican Jazz and Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and Advocacy

Date: August 14, 2022 — 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: Roger Williams Park Bandstand

Registration: https://firstworks.org/event/summer-beats-concert-series-william-cepeda-afro-rican-jazz/

FirstWorks Summer Beats Concerts: William Cepeda Afro-Rican Jazz

Celebrate the heritage of Puerto Rican music and its African roots.

William Cepeda is a cultural icon of Puerto Rico. The four-time Grammy-nominated trombonist brings his revolutionary seven-piece Afro-Rican Jazz band to the FirstWorks stage. A protégé of the Dizzy Gillespie, Cepeda has created a new shade of jazz with a hip flavor, blending Puerto Rican roots, folk, progressive jazz and world music.

Lydia Perez, an award-winning Afro-Taino artist from Rhode Island will lead dancers from the Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and Advocacy in an energetic concert opener.