Sol y Canto / Doozy Jane

Sol y Canto is the award-winning Pan-Latin ensemble led by Puerto Rican/Argentine singer and percussionist Rosi Amador and New Mexican guitarist, singer and composer Brian Amador. Featuring Rosi’s crystalline voice and Brian’s lush Spanish guitar and inventive compositions, Sol y Canto is known for making their music accessible to Spanish- and non-Spanish speaking audiences of all ages. On occasion the group is accompanied by virtuoso musicians from Latin America, the U.S. and Spain.

Sol y Canto’s original songs are distinguished by poetic, often quirky lyrics set in a framework of varied musical styles with surprising twists. They can make you dance, laugh, cry and sigh all in one concert. Their arrangements of classic and contemporary Latin tunes are always fresh and original. With Brian’s commanding, intricate guitar playing, Rosi’s rhythmic drive on cajón and bongos, and liberal use of vocal improvisation, the duo often sounds like a much larger ensemble.

Since 1994, Sol y Canto has brought audiences to their feet from the Kennedy Center to the California World Music Festival, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Puerto Rico’s Museo de Arte and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as well as countless club shows and house concerts. The Boston Globe hails them as “sublime ambassadors of the Pan-Latin tradition”. Music critic Norman Weinstein of the Christian Science Monitor and Boston Phoenix observes:

“Every Sol y Canto album is a demonstration of what the poet Federico García Lorca identified as deep song. Always they evoke the sensual splendor of simply being vitally, vividly alive in a magical and mysterious universe. Brian Amador is a Spanish modernist poet in the guise of a musician…Together, Rosi and Brian Amador create a musical marriage made in heaven.”

Doozy Jane is Anna Patton, vocals, clarinet, and tenor guitar; Sarah Hadley Yakir, vocals and fiddle; Julia Read, vocals, fiddle, and guitar; and Haley Anderson vocals and bass guitar.

They are a quartet rooted in traditions of American harmony singing and swingy, fiddle-driven string bands. With intricate four-part treble vocals, they specialize in songs written by women and queer artists. Along with their original songs, they draw from a repertoire of often lesser-known but beautifully crafted covers that show their taste for the flavors of swing and gospel and an ear for the unconventional. Named in part for their arranger Anna Patton’s grandmother Jane who loved to sing the tricky inner harmonies of barbershop quartets, the quartet clearly shares a mutual love for “a doozy of a song.” Bass guitar, tenor guitar, twin fiddles, and clarinet round out their arrangements.

Doors are at 7pm and music will start at 730. This show is all ages and seating is limited and also first come first served.

Thanks to support from Savings Bank of Walpole, this show has an Access For All option which lets you name your price (you can't buy multiples of this option at the same time, so to buy more than one ticket, it is necessary to do each additional ticket in a different transaction).