Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation: Latino Night with Agrupación La Clave 5, FREE to All, 3/11!

07 Mar Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation: Latino Night with Agrupación La Clave 5, FREE to All, 3/11!

Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation (SAF) presents Latino Night with Agrupación Clave 5. The event takes place at the historic Sheridan Opera House on Saturday, March 11 8 p.m.; 7 p.m. doors

The event is FREE and open to the public. All ages are encouraged to attend.

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The Sheridan Arts Foundation hosts a night of dancing for the Telluride community. With a third of the local population identifying as Latinx, the Sheridan Arts Foundation wants to program to meet the needs of the entire Telluride community. The SAF is covering the cost of the entire night in the hopes that various types of Latino music concerts will become popular enough at the Opera House, ultimately becoming ticketed events on the calendar.

The five-piece band Agrupación Clave 5 began 10 years ago and includes drummer Rafael Jayme; keyboard player and lead vocalist Jaime Fuentes; bass player Joel Flores; guitar player Gilberto Flores; and accordion player Rosario JR Santos, the youngest performer of the band at just 17 years old. The Montrose-based group all work in Telluride.

Lead singer Fuentes shares: “After all these years, we [know] we do what we love and make people’s lives better by bringing our music to their events.”

Note: Esperanza’s Mexican Restaurant and owner Esperanza Reyes will provide snacks.

Sheridan Arts Foundation, more:

The Sheridan Arts Foundation was founded in 1991 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to preserve the historic Sheridan Opera House as an arts and cultural resource for the Telluride community, to bring quality arts and cultural events to Telluride and to provide local and national youth with access and exposure to the arts through education.

The Sheridan Arts Foundation is sponsored in part by grants from the CCAASE, Colorado Creative Industries and an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.