Music
Jazz sessions to continue in Autumn at Bridge Bar
By MaltaMedia News
Sep 13, 2008 - 10:26:24 AM

By popular demand, the jazz sessions happening every Friday at the BRIDGE BAR at Victoria Gate Valletta, will continue beyond the summer season with an extended schedule right into the autumn months( weather permitting).

The sessions now in the third year running, have proved popular with a discerning crowd of jazz afficionados and lovers of open air live music. 

Over the years, the Bridge bar has hosted some of the more prominent local musicians and expatriates, as well as visiting jazz musicians from the continent including Christophe Panzani, Lionel Boccara and Brazilian musicians Sergio Krakowsky,Fernanado del Papa and Ricardo steur herz.

The autumn sessions continue to provide an ongoing schedule of musicians playing on the steps of St.Ursola street and Victoria gate continue to draw crowds to the capital on a weekly basis.

Local musicians performing at the Bridge Bar include Oliver Degabriele, Sandro Zerafa, Charles Gatt, Bibi, Marc Galea and Walter Vella amongst others.  Sessions start 2130h.

The jazz season will terminate with the autumn concert called CAFE BRAZIL, held for the second time running and this year scheduled for mid- November, featuring Brazilian  band BOTAFOGU who gave their Maltese debut concert at the MITP in Valletta last October.

BOTAFOGU is an exceptional quartet of Paris based musicians led by the French bass player Jacques Figueras, who currently resides in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Their music is a tribute to the great composer and multi-instrumentalist  Hermeto Pascoal and to other major Brazilian figures such as Pixinguinha,and Tom Jobim .

This year's line up will include, Jacques, Sandro Zerafa guitar, Sergio Krakowsky on Pandero and Jocelyn Mienniel   on flute ,as well as the much awaited voice of Catia Werneck.

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