
Afro-Cuban All Stars
AFRO-CUBAN ALL STARS
The Legends of Cuban Music
The 17-piece Afro-Cuban All Stars are a dream team of Cuba’s hottest musicians. Musical director Juan de Marcos González, who arranged the famed Buena Vista Social Club, leads a multi-generational line-up drawn from some of the island’s most beloved bands.

DOPPELGANGER DANCE COLLECTIVE
DOPPELGÄNGER DANCE COLLECTIVE
Two dancers moving as one
Two is better than one when Rhode Island’s own Doppelgänger Dance Collective (DDC) takes the stage. Co-founding dancers Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson were drawn together to foster the creation and performance of original, contemporary choreographic work for duet.

The Paul Murphy Touring Ensemble
THE PAUL MURPHY TOURING ENSEMBLE
The next generation of Rhode Island jazz
The Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School take the stage at PVDFest in the form of the Paul Murphy Touring Ensemble, an elite group of high school musicians from all over the state. These inspiring young talents play a mix of contemporary jazz and original compositions with a depth of musical sophistication well beyond their years.