Upcoming Shows
Mondays at the Block Concert Series returns with "A Night in Brazil with the Jovino Santos Neto Trio"
Three-time Latin Grammy-nominee Jovino Santos Neto is a Brazilian born, Seattle-based master pianist and composer. Santos Neto has toured the world for over forty years, performing with mentor Hermeto Pascoal, Bill Frisell, and Paquito D'Rivera, among others. Joining him on this special evening is drummer/percussionist Sergio Reze, also from Brazil, and renowned for his innovative collaborations with top international artists from Andre Mehmari to Patrick Zimmerli. Tim Carey, who's made his name as an exceptionally versatile bass guitarist, completes the trio.
This trio will delight you by transcending the limits of their instruments—deftly exploring new timbres and melodic elements and sparking lightning-fast improvisations. They'll play a rich range of Brazilian styles from traditional to contemporary, choro to baião, samba, samba-jazz, bossa nova and more. If you've ever watched fireflies on a summer night, you'll have a sense of the flashes of brilliance that await you.
More about the artists:
Jovino Santos Neto - https://www.jovisan.net/
Sergio Reze - https://en.sergioreze.com.br/
Tim Carey - https://timcareymusic.com
Doors at 6:30 | Show at 7:30
Mondays at the Block is a new concert series featuring the best local talent along with national and international stars. Presented by Giordano Productions and Block 41.
Previous Shows
June 21, 2021
Solstice 621 Concert Ft. Lee Oskar & Friends with EntreMundos Quarteto
Let's celebrate the Summer solstice and the return of live music at Bell Street Park between 2nd & 3rd in Belltown, Seattle. FREE CONCERT!
Lee Oskar is an internationally acclaimed harmonica virtuoso, composer, producer, and lifelong musical explorer. He is renowned for his iconic role as a founding member and lead harmonica player of War, the pioneering funk/jazz band that composed and recorded such hits as “Low Rider,” “Spill the Wine,” “Cisco Kid,” “The World is a Ghetto,” “Slippin’ into Darkness,” “Why Can’t We Be Friends,” and many more chart-topping songs from 1969-1993. Since then, Oskar and his original band mates from that era perform as the LowRider Band. Oskar also performs around the world with outstanding musicians from the Pacific Northwest, known as Lee Oskar and Friends, featuring his own new arrangements, innovative compositions and well-loved hit songs.
Website: www.leeoskarmusic.com
EntreMundos Quarteto is an electrifying Seattle-based band who bring to the stage an uplifting and kinetic mix of deep Brazilian roots flavored with world rhythms—a deft blending of funk, jazz and soul melding with the classic sounds of samba and bossa nova. EntreMundos means “between worlds,” and the group’s mélange of seductive sounds embodies their name, stirring a personal and uncommon blend into a sound with universal appeal.
Website: www.entremundosquarteto.com
Concert begins at 6:21pm on June 21, 2021 at Bell Street Park, between 2nd Ave and 3rd Ave.
Presented by Mondays at the Block and Block 41.
Sponsored by Giordano Productions, Downtown Seattle Association/Metropolitan Improvement District and Market to MOHAI.
We encourage you to support local Belltown restaurants by ordering take-out food to bring to the concert.
Did we mention this concert is FREE?
February 24, 2020
Greta Matassa Quintet
We are thrilled to have legendary vocalist Greta Matassa and her band plus special guest, Brazilian vocalist Adriana Giordano, for the second show of this new concert series at Block 41!
In the Pacific Northwest, where she built her career, Greta Matassa wins wide acclaim; 7 times, the readers of Earshot, the Seattle jazz magazine, have voted her the best jazz vocalist in the Northwest. She was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in 2014. Jim Wilke, the Seattle jazz maven and host of the syndicated "Jazz After Hours" radio program, praises her versatility. "She has a fearlessness in approaching material," Wilke says, "that makes her like an instrumentalist in a jam session.”
Doors - 6:30pm
Concert - 7:30pm