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The Experience Get ready for a winter soirée, Miami style—journeying through decades of holiday music that shaped the season and soundtrack Black Christmas celebrations. Soulful Christmas delivers everything from smooth R&B renditions to soul-stirring gospel, creating an atmosphere of elegance and warmth, where memories & music harmonize with the hum of the soul. Show Details Dates: December 19th, 2025 @7:30PM EDT December 20th, 2025 @7:30PM EDT Location: The Marshall Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center 6161 NW 22nd Ave, Miami, FL 33142 Featured Artists Bringing true joy and wonder this winter, under the direction of Kunya C. Rowley and Musical Director King Friday: Erron Cooper Ja'Nia Harden Brittany Graham Wilkie Ferguson, III Made Possible By This celebration comes to you thanks to: Green Family Foundation Key Biscayne Community Foundation Miami Dade Department of Cultural Affairs Marshall Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center Step into the embrace of song and spirit. Let the music remind you that joy, hope, and belonging are gifts we all share.

The only Florida music event named by The New York Times as one of the “top 10 definitive music moments of the decade,” GroundUP Music Festival was founded in 2017 by Miami arts veteran and CEO Paul Lehr, and Artistic Director and Snarky Puppy bandleader Michael League. Artist-centric and attendee-focused, GroundUP blends an eclectic mix of genres to create a dynamic and varied festival experience. GroundUP stands tall amidst the Miami music scene with a different kind of festival experience. Known for its relaxed, intimate atmosphere, with wildly dynamic line-ups of hard to define artists, GroundUP defies genre, creating a laidback oasis of true community, steps from the sands of Miami Beach. While most music festivals centralize themselves upon a predominantly single-genre focus, GroundUP pairs unexpected combinations of sound into a seamlessly authentic lineup, allowing the individual stories of the artists to shine. True to the heart of GroundUP since its inception, one of the most central aspects to the GroundUP ethos is diversity in every sense of the word – diversity of genre, style, geography, culture, race, age, and gender – as well as remarkable diversity among artists and attendees. Mirroring the geographic variety of the artists, GroundUP regularly draws a crowd of passionate music lovers and musicians from 50 states and 55+ countries. Taking place each year in Spring at the iconic Miami Beach Bandshell, GroundUP delivers an immersive, authentic and optimal experience for both musicians and fans. GroundUP is stacked with musicians’ musicians — offering exclusive oceanfront workshops and a welcoming, communal atmosphere, steps from the sand.

Celia Sinfónica is a groundbreaking tribute concert that reimagines the legendary music of Celia Cruz. The Queen of Salsa’s most iconic songs will be transformed into sweeping symphonic arrangements, performed live by the FIU Symphony Orchestra alongside renowned vocalists and instrumentalists. More than a concert, Celia Sinfónica is an immersive musical and visual journey—a celebration of Cruz’s life, artistry and enduring cultural legacy. Through powerful storytelling, stunning orchestrations and striking visual design, this one-of-a-kind event pays homage to Celia Cruz with the passion, elegance and grandeur that her music so richly deserves.

The nation's most exceptional young classical musicians come to Miami for a special one-night performance.

The nation’s most exceptional young classical, jazz and pop vocalists come to Miami for a special, one-night performance.

CHI - Town Transit Authority - A tribute to the Music of Chicago Chi-Town Transit Authority (CTA) is an 8-piece Chicago tribute band founded in 2017 and based out of Atlanta, Ga dedicated to reproducing the “Chicago” concert experience. The key to their success has been knitting together a highly accomplished team of long-time musicians who truly love the music of Chicago. With this foundation, they then pay close attention to detail in recreating the best of Chicago’s songs from studio and live versions and then design a show that first captures the audience, then gets them involved and finally brings down the house. It's easy to do because the band is having as much fun as the audience is. The band certainly doesn't lack for large selection of instantly recognizable songs. They are able to choose from the steady stream of Chicago hits starting in the late ‘60s. This allows the band ample opportunity to spotlight each of the three main vocalists as well as showcase a tight horn section and beautifully arranged vocal harmonies. They have honed their craft by playing over 90 shows at casinos, festivals, performing arts theaters, music venues all around the Southeastern US. See a show and you will know why Beat Atlanta Magazine calls them “The best tribute band out there”.

This holiday show is a musical celebration inspired by the Christmas sing-alongs that Grammy Award winner Dan Zanes and jazz vocalist and music therapist Claudia Zanes experienced every year while growing up in New Hampshire. That was then, and the theme was Christmas. This is now, and the 21st century version of these legendary parties includes so much more than Christmas classics. The Holiday Sing Along songbook—printed and distributed to audience members—includes seasonal numbers from a variety of traditions, languages and locations. Songs from Puerto Rico, Korea, Wales, Tunisia, Haiti and Washington, D.C., are represented alongside reimagined versions of ones we all know and love, such as “Let It Snow,” “Silent Night” and “Deck the Halls.” Hanukkah, Korean New Year, Kwanzaa and the winter solstice are also celebrated. For this show, Smithsonian Folkways recording artists Dan + Claudia have taken their electric folk sound to a fresh place with jazz vocalist and recent Howard University graduate Tyree Austin alongside multi-instrumentalist and children’s music star Elena Moon Park. The result is an inviting blend of four voices with guitar, violin, trumpet, harmonica, flute, spoons, percussion and mandolin that artfully brings the intimate feeling of a living room to the stage. The quartet embody the festive, far-reaching spirit of the season and the legacy of intergenerational communal musicmaking. It’s in these songs that we can renew our connections to one another and imagine the best of life’s possibilities for the year ahead. The Holiday Sing Along is an ideal, sensory-friendly presentation. Admission to this performance is free. However, first-access passes are required. Please note: First-access passes expire 15 minutes prior to the performance. First-access passes must be obtained for every member of your party regardless of age. There is a limit of six passes per household. Guests will be let in on a first-come, first-served basis as seats become available.

Born in 1926, Miles Davis was among the greatest innovators in jazz. This centennial concert celebrates his unparalleled musical legacy, which includes the albums Sketches of Spain, Tutu, Birth of the Cool and Kind of Blue. Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, both Grammy Award nominees, will pay tribute to the magical pairing of Miles Davis and John Coltrane, alongside vocalist Veronica Swift and the Frost School of Music’s Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of 69 Love Songs, The Magnetic Fields will perform the album in its entirety over two nights. Originally released in 1999 on Merge Records, 69 Love Songs is a beloved, three-disc masterwork that marked a significant breakthrough for the American band. Written and recorded entirely by Stephin Merritt, 69 Love Songs garnered universal acclaim upon its release, landing on year-end best-of lists in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, SPIN, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. It received notable praise from Pitchfork, The Guardian, Stereogum and other outlets. The Magnetic Fields are the brainchild of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Merritt, who also releases albums as the 6ths, the Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes. With The Magnetic Fields, he has written, produced and recorded 12 albums. He composed original music and lyrics for three music-theater pieces directed by Chen Shi-Zheng, and in 2008, mounted an off-Broadway stage musical of Coraline, for which he won an Obie Award. Merritt composed the score for Academy Award-nominated film Pieces of April and for independent film Eban and Charley. Merritt’s song “The Book of Love” was performed by Peter Gabriel and appears in the film Shall We Dance, as well as in numerous other films and TV shows. Merritt has composed incidental music for the HarperCollins’ audiobooks of A Series of Unfortunate Events and Coraline. The Magnetic Fields will perform 69 Love Songs as it was originally performed in the early 2000s: in full order over two nights, with one half of the triple-disc album performed each night. Featuring multiple singers, the band delivers signature orchestral-pop arrangements with cello, ukulele, guitars and keyboards.

Doctor My Eyes - A Tribute to Jackson Browne is the world's most passionate salute to the legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with a lead singer who not only looks like Jackson Browne in the ‘70s, but close your eyes, and he sounds and emotes...just...like him. Your toes will tap to earthshaking hits including Doctor My Eyes, The Pretender, Running on Empty, Here Come Those Tears Again, Somebody's Baby, Take It Easy, That Girl Could Sing, Tender is the Night, Stay, and more! Your heart will melt to beloved ballads like Late for the Sky. Doctor My Eyes – A Tribute to Jackson Browne includes a full all-star band with a Latin GRAMMY-Winning producer, harmony vocals a la Rosemary Butler and Bonnie Raitt, and the sounds of the lap steel and slide guitar as made famous by David Lindley. There has NEVER been a tribute concert like this before. This is an absolute must-see for every Jackson Browne fan and For Everyman!