**FEATURED ARTIST** SNOWBOY £20

Tickets £20, Doors 7pm, Performance 9pm

SNOWBOY

Percussionist Snowboy has been one of the main cornerstones for the British and European Latin Jazz scene for over 15 years with his powerful band called “The Latin Section”. The band is literally comprised of a ‘Dream Team’ of the finest Jazz and Latin musicians based in the U.K.

As a non-Latin American Englishman, it is a surprise that percussionist Snowboy appears in the book ‘The Who’s Who Of Latin Music’. His band has recently been described as “one of the top Latin Jazz acts in the World, alongside Eddie Palmieri and Bobby Sanabria” by leading expert in Afro-Latin Music, Professor Robert Farris-Thompson of Yale University. Snowboy has released 15 albums and 20 singles in the last twenty years and has performed all over the world from Greece to Australia, Hong Kong to Ireland, Singapore to Scandinavia, the U.S.A., Japan, Canada, Turkey, all over Europe and many more countries besides, with his own band and with artists such as LISA STANSFIELD, MARK RONSON, THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET, BASIA, AIRTO MOREIRA and JON LUCIEN. His heavy schedule as a session musician has taken him to play on Johnny Carson, Arsenio Hall and David Letterman’s T.V. shows amongst many others with the above artists. With these and his own band he has also played a lot of the world’s top festivals.

Unlike many of today’s overly polished and/or bland Latin Jazz recordings, Snowboy’s albums comprise of non-stop Afro-Cuban Jams and catchy Mambos reminiscent of the early works of Eddie and Charlie Palmieri and Tito Puente and show a firm understanding of the Latin Jazz forefathers. His music has been described as fiery, hard driving, up tempo, authentic Afro-Cuban Jazz.

“Fast, muscular with a sharp vicious bite” THE OBSERVER

“Is there no stopping Britain’s premier Conguero in his bid for world domination?” JAZZ WISE.