"Elevate Unity" Music Series: Bobby Torres Band
Hosted by the Muse Media Collective, Soundstage Events & Music Millennium

Saturday, August 15th, 2020

Doors open: 4:30 p.m.
Event begins: 6:30 p.m

Bobby Torres is a band leader, musician, record producer, songwriter, and session musician with a 40-year professional history that spans the globe. Originally from New York City, Bobby developed his reputation while performing with Joe Cocker and The Grease Band at Woodstock, touring with Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen, and performing and/or touring or recording with countless other music stars such as Al Jarreau, Jackson Browne, Beach Boys, the Captain & Tennille, and Etta James – to name a few. He also performed and toured the globe for 10 years with Tom Jones. He has an extensive discography. A versatile musician, Bobby was nominated for Outstanding Percussionist (a Muddy Waters award); featured on Oregon Art Beat; inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame; received Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Hero award; appeared in a photo in Time Magazine; selected to perform in an All Star Tribute honoring Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and recently performed with the remaining members of Mad Dogs AND the Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Lockin Festival in Virginia before a crowd of 25,000. He has been a respected advocate, speaker, instructor and keeper of Latin rhythms on the Portland music scene.

In 1994 Bobby formed his own Latin jazz group – the Bobby Torres Ensemble featuring Latin polyrhythms, tasty piano licks, a pulsating Latin bass, sizzling horns, and vocalists. The Bobby Torres Ensemble includes musical talent of the highest caliber in Portland to explore the many musical inflections of Latin Jazz. Bobby’s music is a toe tapping fusion of American and Latin standards arranged with churning Latin grooves richly ornamented with jazz inflections. The Ensemble has opened for Tito Puente and Poncho Sanchez. And, the Ensemble has been host to such stars as Luis Conte, Orestes Vilato, Alex Acuna, Claudia Lennear, Nancy King, Karla Harris and featured almost the entire Tedeschi Trucks Band during the Ensemble’s Waterfront Blues Festival performance in 2016. The ensemble will be performing new songs from their upcoming CD. 

Our focus is to advocate and address the need to support our local venues, staff, the musicians, bartenders, and restaurant workers from the devastating effects of our industry shut down. 

This series features top Soul, Latin and jazz bands with special guests, plus resident DJ’s & MC's.

The evening will spotlight positive and informative commentary from local community activists, nonprofits and social justice advocates sharing ideas and strategies to unite our city & country.

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21 & Over.
Tickets are Non-Refundable.