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What: Annette Aguilar & Stringbeans
When: Friday, August 10, 8:00 & 10:00 pm sets
Where: Trumpets Jazz Club, 6 Depot Square, Montclair
Cost: $15 music, $12 min

Multi-instrumentalist Annette Aguilar carved out a long and successful career with her ability to play a wide spectrum of musical styles, from Latin to jazz and classical to reggae. For more than two decades she has toured, recorded, composed, produced, and arranged. She has worked with symphonies and opera companies, and played percussion with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Shawn Colvin, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Suzanne Vega, and Tito Puente, among others. She has even appeared on Broadway in productions that include Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Streetcorner Symphony, and The Capeman. In 1992 in New York, she founded StringBeans, her own Latin jazz band, and went on to release the album Special Friends, which was issued by Eagle Seeks Salmon Productions.