Jeremy Ledbetter and Eliana Cuevas

We have heard the spectacular JUNO Award Winning Jeremy Ledbetter Trio and Eliana Cuevas, winner of the Canadian National Jazz Award for Latin Jazz Artist of the Year – in separate concerts. Now they are combined in one fantastic evening!

The first half will be a rare opportunity to hear Jeremy spin a web of magic, as only he can, on solo jazz piano – and on the 2nd half Eliana joins him with a powerful collection Latin songs.

JEREMY LEDBETTER: Canadian-born pianist Jeremy Ledbetter is a fiery, passionate performer whose music knows no boundaries.

His compositions are wildly creative and deeply emotional. At Ledbetter’s hands, the piano roars, whispers, cries, and laughs, telling stories as only he can, evoking cinematic images in the listener’s mind. A Jeremy Ledbetter performance is an experience not easily forgotten.

Throughout his career, Ledbetter has travelled the globe in search of the most fascinating musical ideas out there, then seamlessly integrated them into his own work. During his time living in Trinidad and Tobago, he became musical director to calypso icon David Rudder, a position he has now held for over two decades. His work in Venezuela brought him to the inner circle of luminaries such as Aquiles Baez, Jorge Glem, and Eliana Cuevas. Jeremy has also recorded and performed with Hermeto Pascoal (Brasil), Munir Hossn (Brasil), Daymé Arocena (Cuba), Andy Narell (USA), and many more. Jeremy approaches the music of other cultures with joy and curiosity, and the deepest respect.

Today, Ledbetter features prominently in many of the brightest lights of Canada’s jazz and world music scene. Jeremy is currently a regular performing member with: the Jeremy Ledbetter Trio, CaneFire, the Larnell Lewis Band, OKAN, Eliana Cuevas, David Rudder, the Joy Lapps Project, Rich Brown’s Abeng Quartet, the Elmer Ferrer Group, Schmaltz & Pepper, KC Roberts and the Live Revolution, Mark Kelso’s Jazz Exiles, Alexis Baró, and more.

Jeremy is also a sought-after producer across a wide range of genres; Jeremy has produced albums for latin, calypso, jazz, soca, and salsa artists in five different countries, including Jorge Glem, Aquiles Baez, OKAN, Eliana Cuevas, and 8 albums with David Rudder. His most recent productions include “Seré Libre” (Eliana Cuevas and the Angel Falls Orchestra, 2023) and Juno Award winner for Global Album of the Year, “Okantomi” (OKAN, 2023).

ELIANA CUEVAS: Through years of touring around the world, across Canada, and collaborating with Juno and Grammy Award-winning performers, Eliana Cuevas has grown into an accomplished singer-songwriter and bandleader with unlimited colors in her compositional and lyrical palette.

Among her honors are the Canadian National Jazz Award for Latin Jazz Artist of the Year, two Toronto Independent Music Awards for Best World Music Artist, an Independent Music Award for Best Latin Album, and a World Solo Artist of the Year Award at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.

On her most recent album, El Curruchá, featuring the legendary, late Aquiles Báez, Venezuelan-Canadian singer/songwriter Eliana Cuevas returned to her Latin American roots, offering up a nostalgic homage to the music she grew up listening to in her homeland of Venezuela.

Tickets for this event are available here.