Orquesta Akokan
Riverlink Park Summer Concert Series
Riverlink Park Summer Concert Series
2 Front St
Amsterdam, NY 12010
Jul 14, 2018
7:00 PM UTC
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Saturday, July 14th, 2018Orquesta Akokán - 7pmPrice: FREE!Amsterdam Riverlink Park concerts take place several Friday evenings and every Saturday during the summer months on the Mohawk Riverhttps://riverlinkconcerts.com/index
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Pete
May 13th 2022
AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME MUSIC!!!!! Do not miss this band when it comes to your town!
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Orquesta Akokan Biography
When Orquesta Akokán burst onto the global music scene in 2018, their no-holds-barred 21st century take on the venerable Cuban mambo lit up stages around the world with a fierce and unremitting joy. Chulo Records producer and multi instrumentalist Jacob Plasse, and arranger Michael Eckroth joined forces with a carefully curated selection of Havana’s most extraordinary musicians as Orquesta Akokán, polishing Cuban mambo’s golden sound to a luminous, contemporary sheen. Along the way Orquesta Akokán imbued these legendary Cuban grooves with a renewed vitality and powerful sense of akokán ---the Yoruba word used by Cubans to mean “from the heart” or “soul.”
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