FREE JAZZ CONCERT - JOE GARCIA & FRIENDS/Glendale

Hot Latin Salsa meets Jazz Standards with Tunes to bring Your Holiday Season to a Sizzle! Joe Garcia and Friends features Joe Garcia/percussion & vocals, Raul Yanez/piano, Todd Johnson/bass, and Robby Carrillo/drums.

Music on a Mission is pleased to contribute 100% of all donations from this concert to "Outreach Belarus," a humanitarian aid project for the children, impoverished families, widows, and orphans of Belarus.

About Joe Garcia: Of Cuban descent, Joe began playing drums and percussion at the age of 13 in the heavily Latin influenced city of Miami.

With a professional career spanning over 30 years, Joe has performed many different styles of music from jazz and Latin jazz to Brazilian to country to rock, and records on numerous projects, both live and in-studio.

Joe was inspired by iconic musicians Mongo Santamaria, Giovanni Hidalgo, Luis Conte, Roy Haynes and Joe Morello, to name a few.

Joe’s engaging personality has earned him a stellar reputation in the music business and he is “first-call” with many bands and recording artists.

Joe has performed with and/or opened for Tambores, Dom Moio, B.B. King, Luis Conte, The Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers, Cinco de Moio, Gladys Knight, Frankie Valli, FogHat, Bachman Turner Overdrive (B.T.O.), Mindi Abair, Sergio Mendes, The Everly Brothers, The Fifth Dimension, The Buckinghams and more. He currently leads his own Latin jazz quartet, Joe Garcia & Friends. Email Joe at [email protected]

ALL JFTS CONCERTS ARE FREE and open to the public and all donations received will benefit local and international humanitarian causes. You do not need to register for this event, but if you haven't done so, so we can keep you posted with Jazz for the Soul updates and reminders. Doors open at 4:45PM. NEW LOCATION - Heritage Presbyterian Church 5830 W. Greenbrier Dr. Glendale AZ 85308

Host or Publisher MSW EVENTS