LIVE at StarScape: Joan Soriano

Born in the countryside near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Joan Soriano fashioned his first guitar from fishing line and a discarded metal box. Today, he is known as “El Duque de la Bachata” – the Duke of Bachata. The Miami New Times proclaimed that he “seems to embody the very history of his music.”

Bachata is essential to the Dominican culture, drawing on a variety of musical influences from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. As the undisputed master of the genre, Soriano infuses his music with down-to-earth spirit, punchy guitar-based rhythms and gutsy, street-born attitude.

Immediately following the performance, CES joins forces with Frostburg State University’s own WFWM Public Radio to present the Offstage Series With WFWM, when station director Chuck Dicken joins the artists onstage for a lively interactive discussion with the audience.

Bachata Dance Workshop with Joan Soriano
Saturday, Feb. 24 | Time TBD
Atkinson Room, Lane University Center
Prior to the performance, Soriano leads participants in an interactive lecture and demonstration of traditional Dominican music and movement. FREE. Limited to 30 participants.

This engagement of Joan Soriano is funded in part by a Southern Exposure grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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