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Afro-Cuban music can transform time and consciousness with its multilayered polyrhythms and hypnotic chants. It can take us out of our ordinary state of mind and invoke the spirits of the Afro Cuban pantheon of orishas. Singer, composer, artivist (advocate for the arts), bandleader, actress, educator and 2018 GRAMMY nominee Melvis Santa presents her project Ashedi (“invitation” in Lukumi, the Yoruba language adaptation in Cuba). In an extended trio setting, she leads on piano and vocals, and fronts a full percussion section of sacred bata drums and jazz drums played by Cuban master percussionist Rafael Monteagudo, and with world renowned Puerto Rican bassist Ricky Rodriguez.