Cigar – El Tabacco de Dolor
(The Tobacco of Pain)

When: 10:00 pm Saturday, April 10, 2010
Where: Dance Studio, HCC Performing Arts Building
Who: Rick Olson, Ray Villadonga
Tickets: $5

Olson and Villadonga collaborated on a live-performed film score for Buster Keaton's 1921 film "Playhouse" for the 2009 Ybor Festival of Moving Image. The two join forces once again, adding sound to a uniquely trance-inductive short film by Gordon Mhyre.

Rick Olson

Rick Olson is best known as the co-founder of Bogus Pomp, the world-renowned Frank Zappa repertoire ensemble, and as a pioneer of Organic Drone Music in the Tampa Bay area. A multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser, Rick often joins Ray Villadonga for eclectic and unpredictable performances in apt venues such as the Salvador Dali museum and various other unsuspecting venues in the bay area.

Ray Villadonga

Ray "Rayzilla" Villadonga is a third generation Tampanian, a descendent from four Spaniards who worked in the Ybor City/West Tampa Cigar Factories. He played flute in the Tampa Catholic Marching Band. Villadonga studied music composition at the University of South Florida and the University of Iowa. He has been active in the local Tampa Bay Area music scene for four decades as a composer, musician, producer and DJ, and playing in many diverse local music ensembles: Added Distraction, Devastation, Strut and The Irritable Tribe of Poets.

Ray has contributed compositions and presented works at Tampa University, USF, HCC, St Petersburg College, the Bonk Festival of New Music, the Emit series, Deep Carnivale, the Homemade Music Symposium, Ybor Festival of Moving Image, the Salvador Dali and the Tampa Museum of Art. For the past 22 years Villadonga (along with Peter Tush) has hosted Step Outside, the experimental "Strange and Beautiful" music program on WMNF 88.5 Community Radio.

From the Artists

"Conflagration, Tabacco, The Smoke of Independence, Havana y Tampa, Marti & Rough Riders Bolero/Lecuona/Trova/Son/Cachao/Pozo, Batista Y Trafficante, Castro y Che, Khrushchev & Kennedy, the Embargo, Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crises, Mariel Boatlift, Fall of the USSR, Los Balseros, Brother Raul."