The Nights at the Botanical festival will host a double bill of concerts on 23 June in the Botanical Garden at the Complutense University (Alfonso XIII Royal Botanical Garden), featuring the legend of disco and dance music, Nile Rodgers and the drummer, Mark Guiliana, leader of Beat Music.
Nile Rodgers & Chic, previously known as Chic, is a music band made up of the guitarist Nile Rodgers, the drummer Tony Thompson and the bass player Bernard Edwards, who got together in 1976. Considered to be the most representative band in the history of disco music, it reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States with singles like I Want Your Love, My Forbidden Lover or Everybody Dance. In 2005, after having been nominated for several years, the band was included in the Dance Music Hall of Fame.
They worked with Daft Punk on Random Access Memories (2013) and kept Chic going with albums like Chic-Ism (1992) or It's About Time (2019), with special guests, such as Bruno Mars, Debbie Harry, Pharrell Williams, Janelle Monae, Haim, Disclosure or David Guetta.
The musician, Mark Guiliana is considered to be one of the major innovators of jazz drums. Composer, educator, producer and founder of the Beat Music Productions independent record label, he has forged a genuine interest in jazz, electronic music or bold rhythmic sophistication.
Throughout his career, he has worked with Brad Mehldau, Avishai Cohen or Matisyahu, and success came following his participation in the last album of the deceased David Bowie, Blackstar. On this occasion, he will be coming to Madrid at the helm of his most classical quartet, made up of the musicians Jasper Høiby, Jason Lindner and Jason Rigby.
