Sat Sep 16, 7:30 PM - Sun Sep 17, 10:00 PM
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468, Bronx, NY 10468

Community: Harlem

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present the opening of the 37th Anniversary season featuring the NEA Jazz Master and ten-time Grammy® Award winner legend EDDIE PALMIERI and his SALSA ORCHESTRA on Saturday, September 16th, 2017 at 7:30pm

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Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present the opening of the 37th Anniversary season featuring the NEA Jazz Master and ten-time Grammy® Award winner legend EDDIE PALMIERI and his SALSA ORCHESTRA on Saturday, September 16th, 2017 at 7:30pm. Also appearing: DEL CARIBE LATIN JAZZ ALL STARS, led by Cuban pianist, master arranger and composer EMILIO MORALES, musical director and tres guitarist NELSON GONZALEZ with musicians JOHNNY RODRIGUEZ, RUBEN RODRIGUEZ, GEORGE DELGADO, RICARDO PONS, ORESTES VILATO and special invited guest GIOVANNI HIDALGO. Produced by Lehman Center and Robert Sancho.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts is on the campus of Lehman College/CUNY at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY 10468. Tickets for EDDIE PALMIERI & FRIENDS on Saturday, September 16th, 2017 at 7:30pm are $65, $55, and $50 and can be purchased by calling the Lehman Center box office at 718-960-8833 (Monday through Friday, 10am–5pm, and beginning at 12 noon on the day of the concert), or through online access at www.LehmanCenter.org. Lehman Center is accessible by #4 or D train to Bedford Park Blvd. and is off the Saw Mill River Parkway and the Major Deegan Expressway. Low-cost on-site parking available for $5.

EDDIE PALMIERI, known for his charismatic power and bold innovative drive, has a musical career that spans over 50 years as a pianist, composer and bandleader of Salsa and Latin jazz orchestras. The Honorary Doctor of Music from Berklee College of Music has been awarded ten Grammy Awards and was honored with the 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award. His recordings have become classics with such hits as “Muñeca,” “Vamonos Pa’l Monte,” “Puerto Rico,” and “Azucar Pa’ Ti” which has been included in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. Born in Spanish Harlem, he started piano studies at an early age and began his career as a pianist in the ‘50s with Eddie Forrester’s Orchestra. He spent a year with Tito Rodriguez before forming the legendary Conjunto La Per

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