Jose Conde y Ola Fresca

A Cuban American singer songwriter and arranger raised in Miami and now based in New York, Jose Conde will be performing for the first time in Boston since his days as a Berklee student. Joining him will be his celebrated and funky Ola Fresca band. Get ready to Ride la Ola Jose Conde glides the line between Latin heritage and American storyteller traditions sliding poetically from universal themes of natures beauty to personal expressions of romantic longing and loss. In two critically acclaimed albums, Ay Que Rico- 2004 (PiPiKi/Universal) and the award winning, (R)Evolucion (Mr. Bongo Records UK), Conde has traversed Cuban son to Haitian compas, Puerto Rican bomba to New Orleans swamp -funk creating music which has been hailed the world over as a brilliant and thrilling smorgasbord of sounds (Billboard) that keeps listeners in a diasporic daze (Trace). In the last couple years Conde has won Best Latin Album in the Independent Music Awards 2008 and performed in notable venues such as Chicago World Music Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, NY Central Park Summerstage, Bocafest in Veracruz Mexico, etc. and was the musical director, songwriter and singer for the Baby Loves Salsa cd currently out on Rope a Dope Records/Sony. Five Jose Conde songs from both his Ay Que Rico and (R)Evolucion albums have been featured on international compilations on Putumayo and Rough Guide Records. Condes recent web song and widely seen video, Respondele a Obama, became an anthem of the US 2008 presidential campaign. Currently there is a new solo Latin funk production of 12 new Jose Conde songs in the works and slated for release in the Spring of 2010.