Dinner & Show With the Carlos Bernardo Trio

The Motley Kitchen’s Dinner & Show series kicks off its fifth season on Friday, September 20 with Paris-based, Brazilian guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, Carlos Bernardo, performing in a trio featuring Sudbury’s own Jack Broumpton on drums and North Bay’s Ryan Rogers on bass. Carlos is a jazz/world fusion artist whose career is living proof that music is a universal language. In Sudbury, he has developed an enthusiastic following going back to 2008 for his collaborations with singer-songwriter Patricia Cano, having co-written and arranged both of her albums,This is the New World (2009) and Madre -Amiga-Hermana (2017).
Dinner and entertainment combined is $60.00 including HST. Show-only seats are $25.00 each. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. with the buffet dinner served at 6:30 p.m. and the show approximately from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Reserve now to assure good seats and dinner by calling The Motley Kitchen at 705-222-6685. Leave a message if they’re out on a catering contract. Or drop by during one of their brunches Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, from Brazilian parents, Bernardo spent his childhood in Rio de Janeiro. He divides his time among music, theatre and teaching. In France, Carlos has been working for five years with Toda Via Teatro Company with the Argentinian director, Paula Giusti composing and performing the music for “The Inspector General”(Nicolai Gogol) and currently performs the music composed for the play “Le pain nu” by Mohamed Choukri. Before that, in the early 2000’s, Bernardo worked for many years with Théâtre du Soleil’s composer Jean-Jacques Lemêtre. He also was the music director of the Brazilian company Amok Teatro in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2018 Carlos came together wirh Portuguese-Canadian, Louis Simao, to form Velha Guarda , a new group that features their own compositions drawing upon the sounds of
jazz and Brazilian music as well as new arrangements of Portuguese folk songs.
In the past decade Carlos has also been writing, arranging, recording and touring the world with artists such as London-based Cypriot singer-songwriter Vakia Stavrou and the Brazilian Amora Pera. His main solo recordings are Pacifico (1995), Agua Nova (2002), Trio (2014) and Le Pain Nu – musique du spectacle (2018) .
The Motley Kitchen is proud to present this series in collaboration with the Northern Lights Festival.