Join us for a night of live original music in the lounge with Hugo Cruz and Caminos! Voice of Drums is a visionary collaboration of percussion. A fusion of old world and new world beats. 

Special Guest: Reggie Watkins / Trombone

Michael Bernabe / Keys

Denzel Chismar-Oliver / Bass 

Hugo Cruz / Drums. 

THE CAMINOS fuse rhythms and melodies of Afro-Cuban, Cuban, and American music, in an original contemporary expression that honors traditional Cuban form.

REGGIE WATKINS has a long standing history in the Pittsburgh scene. From 1999 to 2006 he served as trombonist and musical director for trumpeter and band leader Maynard Ferguson and later with singer-songwriter Jason Mraz from 2008 to 2013. In 2003 Watkins was chosen as a semi-finalist in the “Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition.” Watkins has performed and recorded with many great artists from various genres including  Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews, Dianne Shuur, Jose Feliciano, Willie Nelson, Arturo Sandoval, Warren Haynes, Trombone Shorty, The Temptations, and The O’Jays. Currently, in addition to leading his own groups that perform Watkins’ original music, he is also a member of the Grammy nominated Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band, The Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, Scott Bradley’s Postmodern Jukebox and a founding member of The Keystone Jazz Collective and Steeltown Horns. 

Hugo Cruz and Caminos released an album in February 2022 called Punto de Partida, featuring many notable musicians from Cuba and the U.S., recording eight of Hugo’s original compositions. In May 2022 Caminos was the Jazz Band headliner for the Westsylvania Jazz and Blues Festival in Indiana PA. Caminos also have been performing a concert series called, “The Voice of Drums”, which brings many great drummers from the Pittsburgh area such as: Roger Humphries, Poogie Bell, Tubby Daniels, Noel Quintana, Dennis Gardner, Jeff Berman, and James Johnson III, to join Camino’s way of expressing music.

There will be a $5 cover to support Live Music Programming.

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