Bienvenido! Welcome to our band website where you'll find
videos of us performing at various venues, hear some of our demo tunes and see pictures of us in full technicolour!
Do please check our availability for your function or event and then fill out our enquiry form and we'll reply with confirmation as soon as possible.
Latin Jazz in the afternoon... We played a recent Wedding function where they required some soothing Latin Jazz music as people arrived for the reception - which set the mood and warmed everyone up for the evenings performance! See below. (Andy Fuller on Timbales, Ivan Moreno on Congas, Sol on Bass, Jim Blomfield on Piano, Rachel Llewellyn-Jones on Sax, Murray Benjamin on Trumpet and Fernando Acosta filming and Guiro! If you cannot see it click here).
Still going strong... K'Chevere started the year off busy performing gigs in January and February and we are getting many enquiries this year and are filling up dates fast!
Check out our latest gallery images from the CARAD gig:
2008... K'Chevere
are going from strength to strength, performing regular events from small party's, summer fete's to Weddings.
Bath Life Awards 2008 K'Chevere performed at the 2008 Bath Life Awards on 28th September 2008, playing late into the night, we helped finish the night off with a bang! Photography: Celia Mannings
Eddie Palmieri gig Some
of us took a trip up to "The Jazz Café" in
London to see some of the top performing Latin musicians in
the world, Eddie Palmieri, Giovanni Hildalgo, and Horatio "El
Negro" Hernandez! (See their live
solo's here)
Spiegeltent LIVE video! Yes,
it's about time! See us in all our glorious colour. Recorded
summer 2006 at the Bath Fringe Festival in an old 1920's 'Speigeltent'.
See it in our videos section.
The
Band... K'Chevere
are one of the UK's finest and upcoming Latin bands. Formed
specially to perform at an open-air concert for the Bath Fringe
Festival 2000. Since then they have increased the line-up from
5-piece to 8-piece and have performed with guest Latin artists
at various venues in the UK. K'Chevere (Que Chevere in spanish)
is generally used in Latin America to describe good feelings,
positive feedback or anything good, which is exactly how the
audience is likely to feel during and after the performance.
The word "chevere" is widely used in Venezuela, Puerto
Rico, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba, but it is a very familiar word
throughout all Hispanic countries.
Gigs Their past performances include:
Bath Fringe Festival,
Fiddlers Club (Bristol),
Toucan Club (Cardiff),
Pavilion (Bath) supporting Adalberto Alvarez
(NY Fania All-Stars legend),
The Bath International Music Festival joined by Cuban violin
virtuoso Omar Puente,
St Paul's Carnival, Bristol,
Cardiff Fringe Festival.
Moles Club Bath,
Glastonbury Festival, (with and without mud!)
Trowbridge Village Pump Festival,
Aston Court Festival, Bristol
Bristol Zoo,
and many Latin nightclub receptions.
The
Music K’Chevere are a UK-based latin
band with a repertoire strongly influenced by the music and
rhythms of Cuba. Artists including ‘Tito Puente’,
‘Patato Valdés’, ‘Compay Segundo’
and ‘Eddie Palmieri’, have influenced their mix
of Cuban classics with their own original compositions, that combine Afro-Cuban dance rhythms such as Son, Danzón
and Cha-Cha-Cha with a blend of Latin Jazz and Salsa.
Line-up Ivan Moreno (vocals and
percussion)
Jim Blomfield (piano)
Fernando Acosta (electric guitar and vocals)
Andy Fuller (bongos)
Lisa Cherian (congas and vocals)
Mike Vince (timbales) Roshan Wijetunge(bass)
Rachel Llewellyn-Jones(Saxophone) Murray Benjamin (Trumpet)
Press "One of the brightest new Latin
bands in the UK"
Venue Magazine
“..Afro-Cuban dance and tropical
rhythms played with tremendous style and panache, so much so
that they are fast becoming one of the top bands in the UK”.
Bath Chronicle.
If
you would like to book us please go to the bookings
page and fill out the form. We can also be contacted by
telephone for any questions you may have:
Fernando
on: 07866
763195 or Andy
on: 07775
751894
K'Chevere performed at the 2008 
