Downtown Living Tour Block Party

Bemis Center Grounds, 12th & Leavenworth

Join us for a FREE concert after the tour!
Featuring Luigi Waites & Friends from 4 – 7 p.m.

Brought to you by participating properties, Downtown Omaha Inc, the Bemis Center & the Reader; Food & Refreshments by Patrick’s Market

Luigi Waites, a jazz drummer and vibraphonist from Omaha, Nebraska has been serving the Omaha music community for over 60 years. He has performed with jazz legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington. Luigi has toured Europe twice.

Luigi Waites got his start playing drums at age twelve, and soon after began playing local nightclubs around Omaha. While Waites served for the U.S. Army at Camp Lee, Virginia, he met jazz drummer Elvin Jones, who gave Waites further drum instruction.

In 1960, Waites founded The Contemporaries, a multicultural, independent marching corps that featured jazz rhythms, lyres and modern dance steps. In the 1970s, Luigi Waites was a solo artist in The National School Tours program where he performed in classrooms and school assemblies.

Luigi INC., Waites' current band, was formed in the mid-1970's and perform every Sunday night in Omaha.

Information taken from www.wikipedia.com