Past EMIT Events:


Saturday, January 28 at 7:30 pm
SPC Jazz Festival - Jazz Brasil!



It's an evening of Brazilian jazz with the legendary Antonio Adolfo and local band O Som Do Jazz. O Som Do Jazz opens, followed by Antonio solo, then with O Som Do Jazz members.

Antonio Adolfo is a man of many significant accomplishments in the world of music. Stevie Wonder, Earl Klugh, Nara Leao, Wilson Simonal, Ivete Sangalo, Leci Brandao, Emilio Santiago, Beth Carvalho, Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66, Herb Alpert and Dionne Warwick - have all performed or recorded his compositions. His compositions and production work are mainstays in Brazilian television and film. As an award-winning pianist, Antonio Adolfo is among the elite of Rio de Janeiro's jazz scene where his talent was nurtured with the Bossa Nova movement of the 1960s. As a young man, he toured with legendary Brazilian singers, including Elis Regina and Milton Nascimento.

“Adolfo has a sense of synthesis that just great educators have. I greatly admire this guy and his work." - Antonio Carlos Jobim

$10 at the door only. The Music Center at St. Petersburg College is located at 6605 Fifth Ave. North in St. Petersburg FL 33710.



Tuesday, October 18
We Love Brasil! with O Som Do Jazz & Helios Jazz Orchestra
NOVA 535 in St. Petersburg


Brazilian samba jazz band O Som Do Jazz opens for the Helios Jazz Orchestra at the swanky NOVA 535 in this celebration of Brazilian music and jazz. Rio de Janeiro singer Andrea Moraes Manson is the guest singer for both groups. Denise Moore also joins Helios to sing jazz standards.


Friday, September 23
Drummer/vibraphonist Chuck Redd
Free Jazz Workshop at St. Petersburg College


In HS 109 at St. Petersburg College located at 66th St. & 5th Ave. North in St. Petersburg.


Tuesday, September 20
Helios Jazz Orchestra at NOVA 535
7 PM

NOVA 535



Mobile Itinerant Funk Unit at the St. Pete Pride Promenade
Saturday, June 25 at 8:30 AM
Central Ave. between 20th & 29th St.

Mobile Itinerant Funk Unit at the Tropical Heatwave
Saturday, May 14 at 5 PM.



EMIT sponsors MIFU at the WMNF Tropical Heatwave. For more info, see http://www.wmnf.org/heatwave .


O Som Do Jazz at Westminster Presbyterian Church
Sunday, May 15 at 3 PM



Brazilian band O Som Do Jazz gives a concert of bossa nova, samba-jazz and MPB at Westminster Presbyterian Church on Sunday, May 15 at 3 PM. Free will offering. Westminster Presbyterain Church is located at 126 11th Avenue Northeast St. Petersburg, FL 33701-1824. For more info, see www.osomdojazz.com .


Saturday, April 30
Green Thumb Festival




EMIT sponsors the SPC Jazz Band in a concert at the Green Thumb Festival at 2 PM.
Walter Fuller Park is located at 7891 26th Avenue N., St. Petersburg, FL 33710