Music

Join us for Backyard Bash IX, The Moss Center’s FREE annual concert to kick off the 2023-2024 season. Join us for a FREE reggae and SKA concert featuring The Wailers, the world famous Grammy-nominated band known for appearing with legends like Bob Marley, Julian Marley and Peter Tosh. Get ready for a family friendly evening of “irie” vibes and Caribbean culture to kick off the Moss Center’s 2023-3034 season. The night gets started with opening band Kobo Town, a Canadian calypso, reggae band, by way of Trinidad. Don’t miss this evening of great music, food, and one love! Stay and join us for a late-night “After Party” on the Plaza with special guest DJ Shacia “Päyne” Marley. Tickets are available starting October 10, 2023.

Get ready for an electrifying evening of music that will transport you back in time and celebrate the monumental moments when jazz met the rhythms of Cuba and changed the face of modern music forever! Multi-GRAMMY Award-winner Arturo O’Farrill and his 20-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra bring that classic Cuban big band sound to the Miami Beach Bandshell for an unforgettable night revisiting acclaimed compositions including “The Manteca Suite,” and “AfroCuban Jazz Suite” as well as new arrangements by an array of today’s most distinguished Latin artists. Special guest artists to be announced soon.

Jose White, Ignacio Cervantes, Ernesto Lecuona, Jose Manuel (Lico) Jimenez and Eduardo Sanchez de Fuente. As a part of the Cuban Heritage concert series the Florida Chamber Orchestra and its conductor, Maestro Marlene Urbay, will present a highlights of important composers of the 19th century with special attention to the music of Lico Jimenez. Cuban musicologist, Isidro Betancourt, has been researching and working for years to rescue the music of Lico Jimenez, whose career is unknown inside Cuba. Maestro Urbay has joined the project to rescue Jimenez's music, presenting to the world another Cuban composer who shaped the greatness of Cuban music of the 19th century. This research work ended with the premier of a CD with his unpublished music which is part of the program of this concert and will be available at the concert. -Isidro Betancourt, Musicologist -Gabriel Urgell, Pianist -Teresa Novoa, Soprano -Ioana Perez, Violin -Jessica Sanchez, Pianis

Come and join us in a relaxing Bel Canto Opera Concert Performance including some of the most well-known lyric works by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, and Verdi. An evening concert with classical singers and piano, featuring international artists Herman Díaz, Lauren Frick, Kiley Hernández, Lucia Panizza, Lovell Rose, and Paul Schwartz.

Melissa Errico is a Tony Award-nominated Broadway star—an actor, singer and author. As a musical theater actress, she starred on Broadway in such musicals as My Fair Lady where The New York Times called her Eliza Doolittle "beguiling," Anna Karenina, High Society as Tracy Lord, Amour (Tony-nominated for Best Actress), Dracula, White Christmas in the Rosemary Clooney role of Betty, and as Cosette in Les Misérables. Melissa has maintained a constant TV presence throughout her career, starring in Darren Star's Central Park West, steady guest roles, and most recently playing recurring roles on Showtime's Billions and Cinemax's The Knick. She has five Drama Desk nominations, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Helen Hayes nominations, four Drama League Honors, and a Tony Award nomination. She was honored with a Sardi's caricature and also served a term on the National Endowment For The Arts.

"Moving from gauzy delicacy to vigorous propulsion, from dreaming to dancing and back” – The New York Times Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Badi Assad began studying guitar at the age of fourteen under the tutelage of her father, Jorge, and her brothers Sergio and Odair of Duo Assad -- and as a singer, with her mother, Angelina Assad. Career highlights include winning the "Best Brazilian Guitarist" award of the International Heitor Villa-Lobos Festival. She has worked with Bobby McFerrin, Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah McLachlan, Seu Jorge -- and most recently, with Arooj Aftab on her multiple GRAMMY-winning Vulture Prince. Assad's technical mastery allows her to fully explore the guitar's sonic range, combining the human voice and the power of story. More importantly than technical wizardry, Assad connects with audiences at an emotional level, owing to her authenticity, her whimsy, her power, romanticism, and truth.

"An astonishingly talented singer-actor." - TIME OUT NEW YORK Judy Kuhn is a multiple Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award nominee best known for her work on Broadway in such shows as Fun Home, Chess and Les Misérables. She sang the title role in Disney's Pocahontas, including her rendition of "Colors of the Wind," which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for "Best Original Song." In addition to her work on stage, film and television, Judy has appeared on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London's Royal Albert Hall. She has recorded four solo albums: Just in Time: Judy Kuhn Sings Jule Styne; Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel; All This Happiness; and Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro.

A Musical Love Letter to Stephen Sondheim Direct from the Tony Award Winning Revival of Company, Nicholas Rodriguez (One Life to Live, Sex and the City 2), celebrates Stephen Sondheim with his brand-new concert, SINCERELY, SONDHEIM — a nod to both the lyrical and musical genius of the late composer and his reputation for his renowned penmanship. Pulling from the thousands of handwritten letters to fans and colleagues alike, Rodriguez weaves together stories from Sondheim’s own words and explores the fascinating relationships with legends such as Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerry Herman, Jonathan Larson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and of course his own personal story. Featuring selections from Company, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods and more.

SHOWINGS SUN, JAN 21, 2024 - 7:00 PMAdd to cal EVENT DETAILS VENUEAventura Arts & Cultural Center PRICESeats Start at $57.00 AVAILABILITYBuy Tickets Now Beth Leavel is a Tony Award-winning stage and screen actor. She recently starred as Miranda Priestly in the Broadway-bound new musical adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, directed byAnna Shapiro and featuring music by Sir Elton John, lyrics by Shaina Taub and a book by Kate Wetherhead. Most recently, Beth was seen on Broadway as Dee Dee Allen in The Prom, for which she was nominated for Tony, New York Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards. She received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and LA Drama Critics Awards for her performance as the title character in The Drowsy Chaperone. Beth also received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for her role as Florence Greenberg in Baby, It’s You. On Broadway, Beth also originated the roles of June Adams in Bandstand, Emily in Elf, Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War and Tess in Crazy For You. Other Broadway credits include Donna Sheridan in Mamma Mia!, Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein, Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street, Ellie in Hal Prince’s ShowBoat, and Anytime Annie (her Broadway debut) in 42nd Street. Beth has dazzled and delighted sold-out audiences with her cabaret act, which she has taken from 54 Below in New York City to venues across the United States.

Cumbia is the new punk; say the three brothers who make up Son Rompe Pera. Born and raised in the outskirts of Mexico City, the Gama brothers are keeping alive the rich legacy of marimba music running through their family. Originally performing alongside their father at local events as kids, they now find themselves at the forefront of the contemporary international cumbia scene with their sonic explorations of the classic marimba. The band urges listeners to their feet with their unique style of garage-marimba-cumbia rock, played on the historic marimba like no one has ever heard or seen before. The group releases music for ZZK Records. Opening set by Venezonix, the passion project of Andres Ponce (Elastic Bond). Ponce, a native of Venezuela, has been collecting classic Afro-Venezuelan vinyl and sounds (often saving them from obscurity). The project puts his own producer-spin on traditional instruments and rhythms with futuristic beats and electronic textures. The band's album was released on Nacional Records.