6/22/2014 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Rumsey Playfield, East 72nd and 5th Ave, New York

Since her introduction to the American marketplace in 2007 with her album Mi Niña Lola (My Little Girl Lola), Buika
has experienced a meteoric rise, earning lavish praise from The New York Times, The Miami Herald, and The Wall Street
Journal, as well as NPR which quickly included her in their “50 Great Voices” radio gallery. Her next release, Niña de
Fuego (Fire Child) paved the way for relocation to Miami in 2011. After achieving success in Europe, her works were
compiled on the 2-CD set En Mi Piel (In My Skin) to coincide with the Pedro Almodovar movie of the same name in
which she appeared. Buika was nominated for a GRAMMY for best Latin Jazz album this year, for her latest album La
Noche Mas Larga. Rare is the artist to garner comparisons to Nina Simone, Chavela Vargas, and Cesaria Evora, but Buika
has been compared to all of them. The New York Post has said, “A singer like Buika comes only once in a generation.”

While Marques Toliver seemed to burst onto the scene via the UK with an arresting television performance in 2010, and
a declaration from Adele as her “new favorite artist,” his story really began many years ago in Florida. It was there he
began his training in classical violinist at the age of 10, and would later enroll in music school. Keen to throw him-self
into the real world of music making, Toliver took a leap of faith and traveled to New York City, where his busking in
subways and working as a freelance musician, quickly gained him attention from fellow artists. Soon enough he found
himself playing live and on records for the likes of Holly Miranda, Grizzly Bear, and Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson.
After another move to London, Toliver began winning over that city’s musical landscape in similar fashion, and soon he
signed to Bella Union and released his well-received debut EP Butterflies Are Not Free. Following worldwide tours, he
began work on the mixtape Studying For My Ph. D, a cornucopia of music, speech, loops, and news reports from the
London Riots. Through the mixtape he would also delve in to some of the themes and ideas that would eventually
influence his full-length debut Land of CanAan, a work brimming with his own unique R&B and Classical music
influences.