The 2022 Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series presents Davina and the Vagabonds with opening group West Port High School Real Teal Jazz Combo on Friday, April 22 from 7 – 9 p.m. at Webb Field at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Complex.
The performance is free. Please bring your chairs and blankets. Food is available from RoyalProjex Food Truck, The Smoked Biscuit Company, and Kona Ice Ocala. Fun field games and activities with the Ocala Recreation and Parks recreation vehicle.
Each concert in the series features a local non-profit organization working to create art accessibility in our community; tonight’s featured non-profit is Ocala Storytelling and the Marion County Library.
HEADLINING ARTIST: Davina and the Vagabonds
“Davina Sowers creates her own Americana mishmash – a little Amy Winehouse-worthy neo-soul there, a little Great American Songbook-influenced songcraft there.” – Rolling Stone Magazine
Bringing you 100 years of American music and Davina’s originals, which lend themselves to the American Songbook, the band brings edgy nostalgia to older generations and fresh new music to younger ears. This rollicking quintet is held together by Sowers’ keyboard playing, with acoustic bass, drums, and a spicy trumpet and trombone horn section. The group’s focused, clean sound and emphasis on acoustic instruments is novel to both blues and jazz worlds, and sets the show closer to New Orleans than to Chicago. This has set the Vagabonds apart at festivals in Thunder Bay, Ontario; Sighisoara, Romania; Sierre, Switzerland; Kemi, Finland; the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and 2013 Monterey Jazz Festival (in 2014 was asked back to play their main stage in 2014), Vache de Blues in France, and North Sea Jazz Festival.
OPENING ARTIST: West Port Real Teal Jazz Combo
West Port High School Real Teal Jazz Combo is comprised of students in grades 9 – 12. Students are required to audition to perform in the combo. Students study the styles, tonal structures, modes, harmonic progression used in jazz, swing, rock, Latin, & ballad music etc. and learn advancing knowledge of scales and scale variations, improvisation and composition. Students will learn to use FINALE music notation and thus will arrange music that will be performed by the group.
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
Levitt Foundation
Marion Cultural Alliance
Ocala Recreation and Parks
Ocala Electric Utility
Downtown Billiards
T-Mobile
Kona Ice Ocala
Angie Lewis State Farm
Two Men and a Truck
The Martial Arts Academy of Ocala
Rasmussen University
TJM Promotions
Mojos Grill and Catering
Production by Oniram Productions, Inc.
The Levitt AMP Ocala Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, which partners with towns and cities across America to activate underused public spaces through the power of free live music, creating welcoming, inclusive destinations. Presenting a broad array of music genres and cultural programming, Levitt venues and concert sites are community anchors where families, friends and neighbors of all ages and backgrounds come together. Learn more at
levitt.org.
