This Thursday at Umi Café

CHEO YouthNET Fundraiser

Youthnet is a mental health promotion and intervention program run ‘by youth for youth' with full professional support through the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Services include support groups, art therapy and seasonal activities. This Umi Café fundraiser is planned to be fun and interactive.

6 to 8 PM

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8:15 to 11 PM

Rimbombante - Ottawa's finest boleros

Rimbombante, a Spanish term that denotes something flamboyant or having a strong resonance, is a band dedicated to playing music in the traditon of the Bolero music recorded by the great Bolero singers of Latin America. Una Aventura Más, Rimbombante's first CD captures Rimbombante's love of bolero music. Although now Rimbombante is now playing more original compositions the bolero influence remains strong but it is being mixed in with other musical styles from Brazil and Latin America to broaden Rimbombante's creative template. Bolero performers such as Toña la Negra, Lucho Gatica, Antonio Machín, Armando Manzanero and Raul Shaw Moreno remain dear to our hearts but more and more we are playing original compositions that include such influences as Brian Wilson, Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington. We are above else jazz musicians so each song is enhanced with a certain amount of improvisation. The musicians in the band have worked in a variety of jazz, experimental music and world music groups like Raivo, the Ottawa band that mixes musical styles from Madagascar, Kingdom Shore, Florquestra Brazil, Shaman Rhythms, and Caridad Cruz.

The band's first CD Una aventura más is now out.