{"id":113675,"date":"2022-09-20T20:26:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T00:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113675"},"modified":"2022-09-20T20:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T00:27:24","slug":"andy-montanez-edgar-joel-concert-encouraging-attendees-to-support-relief-efforts-at-upcoming-steelstacks-show-on-sunday-sept-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=113675","title":{"rendered":"Andy Monta\u00f1ez\/Edgar Joel concert encouraging attendees to support relief efforts at upcoming SteelStacks show on Sunday, Sept. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Following the devastation of Hurricane Fiona,\u00a0ArtsQuest<\/a>, in partnership with La Mega Radio, today announced that attendees of the upcoming singer\/songwriter Andy\u00a0Monta\u00f1ez concert are encouraged to display the Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic flags during the show. Additionally, donations will be collected during the show and sent to the\u00a0American Red Cross<\/a>\u00a0for continuing hurricane relief efforts.<\/p>\n

Monta\u00f1ez, with special guest Edgar Joel will bring the heat and the beat to the outdoor stage for SteelStacks Summer Concert Series on Sunday, Sept. 25. Gates open at 5 p.m., and tickets are now on sale at\u00a0steelstacks.org<\/a>. For more exclusive ticket access and advance purchase opportunities, become an\u202fArtsQuest Circle donor<\/a>\u202ftoday.<\/p>\n

Singer\/Songwriter Andy\u00a0Monta\u00f1ez, was born the first of 17 siblings in Puerto Rico in 1942. He began his musical journey in his teens when he joined El Gran Combo. Over the next 15 years the group recorded 37 full-length albums that include hits such as \u201cEl Barbero loco,\u201d (The Crazy Bartender) \u201cJulia,\u201d \u201cUn verano en Nueva York,” (A Summer in N.Y.) and “Las hojas blancas,” (White Leaves). In 1977 Monta\u00f1ez, took a risk and joined the popular Venezuelan salsa orchestra, Dimensi\u00f3n Latina, recording eight EPs. After leaving the group he found his own international success with his orchestra as he toured Latin America and the United States. He recorded his first solo album in 1981,\u00a0Salsa con cache<\/em>, and went on to release five more full length albums. He won his first Latin Grammy for Best Traditional Tropical Album with Pablo Milanes for his 2006\u00a0Salsat\u00f3n – Salsa con Reggaet\u00f3n<\/em>. Monta\u00f1ez has been featured in several films including\u00a0La boda<\/em>, and\u00a0El atentado<\/em>\u00a0and made his theatrical debut in 1999\u2019s \u201cLo mejor est\u00e1 por venir.\u201d Monta\u00f1ez continues to perform internationally.
\nPhiladelphia born bandleader and accomplished trombonist, Edgar Joel, first hit the Billboard Hot Latin Songs charts with his cover of \u201cHasta El Sol De Hoy,\u201d in the early 1990s. \u00a0Edgar Joel and his Orchestra, known for songs “Spell of Moon” and “Until the Sun of Today,” earned two Lo Nuestro nominations for Tropical New Artist of the Year in 1994. Joel has toured extensively including performances in Madison Square Garden, Miami Arena, Venezuela and has been given credit for the revived popularity of salsa style music with his latest album \u201cMi Lenguage Musical.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Information provided to TVL by:
\nKelley Andrade, ArtsQuest
\nPublic Relations Coordinator
\nhttp:\/\/www.artsquest.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2013 Following the devastation of Hurricane Fiona,\u00a0ArtsQuest, in partnership with La Mega Radio, today announced that attendees of the upcoming singer\/songwriter Andy\u00a0Monta\u00f1ez concert are encouraged to display the … Continue reading Andy Monta\u00f1ez\/Edgar Joel concert encouraging attendees to support relief efforts at upcoming SteelStacks show on Sunday, Sept. 25<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Andy-Montanez.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}