Miami Big Sound Orchestra with LeNard Rutledge

An evening of Miami-style big band instrumental and vocal music with featured vocalist LeNard Rutledge, as well as the music of our 2023 Latin Grammy Award-winning arranger, Rafael Valencia!

The Miami Big Sound Orchestra is downtown Miami’s resident professional contemporary Latin Jazz Orchestra, a project formed as a collaboration of musicians from Miami’s jazz and Latin music communities. This 18-piece powerhouse group is composed of Miami-based musicians who have performed and toured with the likes of Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto, Jon Secada, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Chayanne, Ray Ruiz, Tito Nieves, Chaka Khan, and the Funk Brothers among many other artists.

Led by trumpeter/flugelhornist Pete Francis and bassist/composer Rafael Valencia, and featuring vocal artist Lourdes Valentin, the band delivers its own blend of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music, contemporary Jazz, and Soul.

Directions to John Knox Village of Florida

Please enter the John Knox Village campus from the Main Gate on SW 3rd Avenue (directions are below).

DIRECTIONS TO JKV MAIN GATE

400 SW 3rd Street, Pompano Beach, FL 33060

Take I-95 to Exit 36 - Atlantic Blvd. When you exit, head east on Atlantic Blvd. to Dixie Highway. Turn right (south) at Dixie Highway and get into your right-hand lane. At SW 3rd Street, turn right (west) and get into your left-hand lane. When you see the Guard Gate, turn left.

Directions from the Main Guard Gate on SW 3rd Street to the Cultural Arts Center

Once you pass through the main guard gate, follow the road (don’t drive faster than 14 MPH!!), go around the traffic circle, and then, at the dead end, make a right. Go past Westlake Towers on your left, and then the Pavilion building will be on your left.

Directions from the Dixie Highway Gate to the Cultural Arts Center

Once you pass through the Dixie Highway Gate, follow the road (SW 6th Street) past the Aquatic Center, past Cassels Tower. Turn right at SE 5th Circle. Follow this road past Gardens’ West, Seaside Cove and at the Fitness Studio turn right. Go past the Fitness Studio and Trustbridge and then The Pavilion will be on your right.

PARKING

Parking is located just west of the Cultural Arts Center which is the building next to the Westlake Towers. Please click on the hyperlink to get exact directions to parking:

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ENTRANCE

Please click on the hyperlink to get exact directions to the front entrance of the Cultural Arts Center:

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DISCLAIMER

By attending this event, you permit JKV to take photos/videos of you for internal and external use.