The Feeling Messengers
Miguel "Miguelo" Valdes, Band Leader

Overview: Miguel "Miguelo" Valdes, the Afro-Cuban musician and band leader, has assembled a talented group of professional Latin artists, dedicated to preserving authentic Cuban music.

Our performances are jam-packed with rhythms that reflect the Bolero, Son, Rumba, Guaracha, Cha-Cha and Cuban music. The Feeling Messengers is noted throughout New York City and New Jersey for combining contemporary traditional jazz and bossanova that takes the audience into a feeling of nostalgia, love, longing and happiness all through their music.
The Feeling Messengers bridges generations and understanding of the important role music has played in breaking down barriers of misunderstanding. Through music we can touch the hearts, minds, bodies and soul through the heartbeat of good Cuban music.
Previously our name was The Feeling Collective Band, but now we changed it to: The Feeling Messengers, because that’s what we are: Messengers of Feeling.

Goals:
1. Recording CDs.
2. Participate in different presentations and festivals, theaters and clubs around the world.
3. Get awards that can make our career.
4. Reach the hearts and minds of people who like this musical genre feeling.

Space in which the artistic proposal can be executed or the workshops and the availability: 

 The Feeling Messengers by Miguelo Valdes has no agreement with any foroum, so they accepts with great disposition the foroum that the county believes appropiate and assign for their proposal. 

Material resources and technical requirements (the technical requirements for public and / or community spaces, as well as the logistics of the artist, group or collective)

The technical requierements are as follows:

The feeling messengers can be presented either in open or closed spaces.
10 Microphones
3 Amplifiers - Bass and guitars 
5 Monitors
2 Congas LP
1 Bongo with stand LP / 1 Timbal LP
1 Cajon LP
2 Stand of Cymbals / 1 Cowel Bell Pedal

 Milestones:
 Harlem-Havana Festival, Harlem Hospital, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Gracie Mansion, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Interchurch Center, Saint Peter’s Church, Zinc Bar, Jazz Standard, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Jazz Mobile Jammin on The Hudson, NY, NYC.

Perth Amboy Waterfrom Art Festival, Perth Amboy, NJ PAC, Newark,  
William Musto Cultural Center, Union City, NJ

 The NCPA International Jazz Festival in Mumbai, The Piano Man Jazz Club in Delhi, Kolkata Jazz Festival, Kolkata, India

 Different clubs and restaurants, NJ, NYC, India

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