The Seasons proudly presents: The 4th Annual YVCC Latin Music Celebration (May 6-8, 2010)The three day event will have two days of educational outreach with a Grand Finale Performance at The Seasons on Saturday, May 8th (7:30pm). Thursday's May 6th events will take place on the YVCC Campus and will focus on hands-on clinics, master classes and performance clinics. Friday's events will take place at three different locations: YVCC (Marimba Festival), The Seasons (Performance Clinics, Master Classes), The Capitol Theater (Yakima Symphony Orchestra Student Concert).Featuring:

• Memo Acevedo (NY based Latin Percussionist)
• John Santos (SF based Latin Percussionist)
• Carlos Cascante (Seattle based Salsa Vocalist)
• Vanessa Villalobos (Seattle based Salsa and Afro-Peruvian Dancer)
• Andre Mintz (Seattle based Salsa Dancer)
• Julian Gomez Giraldo (EWU Director of Orchestras, Spokane Symphony Chorale Director)
• Shannon Dudley (UW Ethnomusicologist and Steel Drums)
• Laura Rebolloso (UW artist-in-residence, Seattle Fandango Project, dancer, poet, leona - Veracruz, Mexico)
• Oscar Esqueda Velazquez (Marimba - Morelia, Mexico)
• Alan Montoya Calderon (Marimba - Morelia, Mexico)
• Jeff Chang (YVCC Faculty, Saxophonist)
• David Blink (YVCC Faculty, Festival Director)
• YVCC Salsa Band and Concert Choir

This year's Latin Music Celebration will present a wide variety hands on clinics and performances of Latino music and dance including:

• Salsa
• Latin Jazz
• Brazilian
• Colombian
• Afro-Cuban
• Afro-Peruvian
• Son Jarocho
• Marimba Music

This years festival is in partnership with:The Seasons Education Outreach Program, YVCC Music, ESD 105 ArtFusion Project, ASYVCC, YVCC Diversity Series, GEAR UP of YAKIMA, Lower Valley GEAR UP, YVCC Upward Bound, Balorico LLC, Seattle Fandango Project, Yakima Symphony Orchestra, Yakima School District, Yakima-Morelia Sister City Association, Ted Brown Music Company, and Allied Arts of YakimaThe event is also sponsored by:LP (Latin Percussion Music Group), Toca Percussion, Sabian, Pro-Mark, Taye Drums, Evans Drum Heads