CLEVELAND — Editor's note: the video above is from an unrelated story on a benefit concert for Ukraine hosted by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
"Solstice 2022," described as "a night filled with music and art," is coming back to the Cleveland Museum of Art on Saturday, June 25. The museum's signature summer event will feature multiple groups performing simultaneously on two-stages.
In addition to the event, guests can access the special exhibition The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion as well as any of the museum's permanent collection galleries.
Here's the Cleveland Museum of Art's breakdown of the 2022 Solstice artist lineup:
Tatiana Eva-Marie has consistently delighted audiences with her buoyant style and effervescent personality and charmingly carries the Django Reinhardt vintage jazz legacy forward. A Brooklyn-based bandleader, singer, author and actress, Tatiana Eva-Marie is best known for her work with the Avalon Jazz Band and was recently included in a list of rising jazz stars by Vanity Fair magazine. Though her interests have led her to explore a wide range of musical styles, from 1930s pop to modern jazz, Tatiana Eva-Marie’s singing is always inspired by her own French and Gypsy heritage; a love for the Parisian art scene of the 1920s through the 1960s; a fascination with New Orleans Jazz; and a deep connection to the Great American Songbook. She will start her performance in the VIP tent, then move to the general stage.
Plena Libre brilliantly infuses the “plena and bomba” Afro-Puerto Rican rhythms with other Caribbean rhythms in their traditional and contemporary compositions, creating an electrifying stage performance. Featuring three vocalists singing in lush three-part harmonies—with an aggressive, tight, yet sensitive style, which balances the traditional with the contemporary, the global and the local—Plena Libre produces a brand of music and live performance that captivates the multicultural audience, inviting all to dance and to listen to their sound. Plena Libre has recorded with notable musicians, like pianist Eddie Palmieri, Papo Lucca and Nestor Torres, among others.
Underground System, one of the most dynamic groups to emerge from New York City this decade, continues to reinvent their brand of global dance music, remaining a force determined to re-create, redefine, and reconstruct. The journey from humble beginnings—taking the purist approach to interpreting Fela Kuti’s musical style to an authentically original, internationally touring indie dance band—is a story just starting to be told. The production and release of 2018’s debut LP What Are You (Soul Clap Records) proved to be the springboard that set the group in motion. Re-contextualizing and breathing fresh life into elements of Afrobeat, dance punk, disco and electronic music, the album was received with international acclaim.
Museum members will receive the first opportunity to purchase tickets, beginning Monday, May 16 at 10 a.m. If tickets remain available after the pre-sale, they will be made available to the public on Wednesday, May 18 at 10 a.m.
Tickets are $100 (limit of 4) and will cover food, beverages (including beer, wine and cocktails). The event is only for guests 21 or older.
You can become a member of the Museum to have first chance at presale tickets or go to ClevelandArt.org/Solstice.
Editor's note: the video above is from an unrelated story posted on April 8, 2022.