UTICA — The Levitt AMP Utica Music Series welcomes the Toronto-based duo Okan for a free, family-friendly concert Monday, July 1 in Kopernik Park, 317 Genesee St. With vocals in Spanish, Yoruba and Spanglish, Okan is a Cuban-born duo featuring Elizabeth Rodriguez and Magdelys Savigne, who are both Grammy and Latin-Grammy nominees. They fuse Afro-Cuban roots with jazz, folk and global rhythms in songs about immigration, resistance and love.
Their recent release “Okantomi” was awarded the 2024 Juno Award — the band’s second Juno recognition — and was included in NPR Alt Latino, Le Monde, and CBC Music’s “Best of 2023” lists. For more information on Okan, visit www.okanmusica.
com . The opening act is Filled to the Brim, five local talented teenagers and college-aged artists who have developed a mature indie pop rock sound. They came together in 2018 at Jim O’Mahony’s Rock Camp and wrote and recorded their first self-titled album in 2020.
This eighth year of Levitt AMP Utica live music features national touring acts, local and regional openers and youth intermission acts and runs Monday nights through Aug. 19. Opening acts are at 5:30 p.
m.; a youth intermission act is at 6:30 p.m.
and headliners take over the stage at 7 p.m. The Levitt AMP Utica Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation, which partners with towns and cities across America to activate underused public spaces through the power of free live music, creating wel.