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Rachelle Coba Celebrating International Womans Month

March 31, 2019 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Rachelle Coba Celebrating International Womans Month

Global Arts Project, Inc. and the Collins Park Neighborhood Association present the second FREE Artscape concert in Collins Park from 4-7 PM, featuring the outstanding blues guitarist Rachelle Coba and her band.

” Hotter than Georgia Asphalt in the summertime… She rocked and was so incredible she had two standing ovations.”
– Liberty Press

With a voice made for the blues and guitar sensibilities that enhance the groove, Rachelle Coba is an intuitive performer able to grab an audience by the heart. She is an innovative writer and she possesses the talent of making new arrangements of cover songs, acoustic or electric, done her way.

She is a classically trained guitarist with a bachelor’s degree in guitar performance. Since graduating from college, she has worked with and toured as a guitarist with artists such as Buddy Guy, Super Chikan, Albert Castiglia, Grady Champion and Ray Drew. As leader of her own band she has played many festivals including the King Biscuit and Chatauqua Hills Blues Festivals. She was a featured performer in the recent Blessissippi Blues benefit in Clarksdale, Mississippi.  Recently, the band has opened for Dr. John, The Cate Brothers, Karen Lovely, Candye Kane, Earl and Them, Hadden Sayers, Hamilton Loomis,TUF. She has played with Eddie Turner, Iko-Iko, Joe Pitts, and Stacy Mitchheart , among other stars.

Rachelle is also the resident teaching artist for the blues in the schools program in Wichita, Kansas area and is currently the teaching art director at the city’s Carpenter Place, a home for at-risk girls.

Collins Park is located at 2100 Collins Ave., Miami Beach, next to the Bass Museum. Dr Ed Calle’s student program will open each show, this time featuring THE REMYZ. Food service will be available on-site.

Get out and explore!

Just in time for the festival, the Canal Park walkway between Washington Avenue and Convention Center Drive will be temporarily open to the public for the very first time in several years. From 10AM until 7PM, visit the Botanical Garden’s Japanese Spring Festival, the BASS Museum’s Free Family Day and the Free ArtScape Concert in Collins Park all on-foot!

Venue

Collins Park
2100 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, FL 33140 United States
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Organizer

Global Arts Project Inc.
Phone:
305-332-2623
Website:
http://www.globalartsproject.org/
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