4.19.2024
Levitt AMP Ocala: Iliana Rose w/ SeanTMusic Global Group (Genre: Cuban Jazz)
The 2024 Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series presents Iliana Rose with opening artist SeanTMusic Global Group on Friday, April 19 from 7 – 9 p.m. outside at Webb Field at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Complex.
The performance is FREE. Please bring your chairs and blankets. Food is available from local food trucks and dessert brought to you by our sponsor Kona Ice Ocala. Fun field games and activities with the Ocala Recreation and Parks Department along with local non-profit organizations will be present.
Each concert in the series also features live painting by local visual artists and a local non-profit organization intermission. This week’s featured non-profit is Ocala Civic Theatre.
More information is available at www.ocalafl.gov/levittamp or contact Ocala Cultural Arts at 352-629-8379 or artinfo@ocalafl.gov.
HEADLINING ARTIST: Iliana Rose
Iliana Rose is a musical prodigy, talented classical and jazz musician, film composer, arranger, musical director, and band leader. Born in Miami, Florida and raised by Cuban parents and grandparents, she is steeped in Cuban rhythms and culture. Her musical genre of choice: Cuban jazz, a marriage of music, melding jazz beats and Cuban influences with her heritage of Spanish lyrics, Cuban drums and danceable rhythms.
She formed “The Iliana Rose Cuban Jazz Band” while in Los Angeles, CA while working as a musical director for several other projects including The Arsenio Rodriguez Project and Las Chikas. Rose enjoys engaging and connecting with her audience, utilizing her Cuban jazz to get people up, singing and dancing.
For more about Iliana Rose, visit her website https://ilianarose.com/.
OPENING ARTIST: SeanTMusic Global Group
SeanTMusic Global uses innovative percussive languages to promote physical and mental wellness. Founder Sean Thomas invites fellow musicians to play alongside him to connect with others and spread rhythmic joy to the local Ocala community! For more about SeanTMusic Global, visit www.seantbg.com.
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Levitt Foundation
City of Ocala
Marion Cultural Alliance
Ocala Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission
Ocala Juneteenth Celebration Commission
Ocala Electric Utility
Downtown Billiards
Kona Ice Ocala
Angie Lewis State Farm
TJM Promotions
KTK 98.5
Production by Oniram Productions
The Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, which partners with towns and cities across America to activate underused public spaces through the power of free live music, creating welcoming, inclusive destinations. Presenting a broad array of music genres and cultural programming, Levitt venues and concert sites are community anchors where families, friends and neighbors of all ages and backgrounds come together. Learn more at levitt.org.
