La Lucha and Ona Kirei. Credit: Photo by Àgueda Sanfiz (Captureology)
Tampa Jazz Club’s new season kicks off with this Sunday, Sept. 11 with a 3 p.m. matinee concert at HCC Ybor featuring adored Bay area trio La Lucha, which will be joined by friends like Spanish vocalist Ona Kirei and guitarist LaRue Nickelson (Nickelson with La Lucha has been dubbed, “LaRucha”).

Kirei, fresh off the release of her own new album Mirage, is bandmates with Lucha bassist Alejandro Arenas in a Latin pop and funk outfit called Orilla, so expect the chemistry and jazz party vibe to be in full effect at this one, which actually finds Kirei and La Lucha reuniting on the same stage where they played together for the first time ever.

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