Thursday, June 10, 2010

Central PA Jazz Festival This Weekend Dedicated to Women In Jazz

Here's a Weekend Jaunt for you jazz lovers...

The 30th Annual Central PA Jazz Festival starts tomorrow in Harrisburg and is dedicated to Women In Jazz featuring PATTI AUSTIN, DIVA, THE HELEN SUNG GROUP, THE TIA FULLER QUARTET AND THE HOT CLUB OF DETROIT w/special guest ANAT COHEN.

Festival Details and pics can be found on the web site at http://www.cpfj.org/

To see the Saturday line up...

Saturday, June 12

10 am
Jazz Workshops
Tia Fuller (sax)  Sherrie Maricle (drums)  Helen Sung (piano)
FREE ADMISSION
A rare opportunity for people to meet our featured artists and learn how they approach the art of jazz.

12 noon
CPFJ Youth Band Concert
Conducted and arranged by Ronnie Waters
The band features the finest young jazz artists from many schools in Central PA.
FREE ADMISSION

1 pm
Panel Discussion on Women in Jazz
featuring Tia Fuller (sax) Sherrie Maricle (drums)  Helen Sung (piano)  Anat Cohen (clarinet)
Hosted by Judith Brown
FREE ADMISSION

2:30 pm
Film-Anita O'Day-The Life of a Jazz Singer A great documentary on the life and career of the legendary song stylist.
FREE ADMISSION

3-6 pm
Hilton Patio
Jazz Jam Session With the Steve Rudolph Trio
FREE ADMISSION

Evening Concerts at the Hilton Ballroom 
6 pm
The Hot Club of Detroit with special guest  Anat Cohen
A modern take on gypsy jazz with the additional creative woodwind work of Ms. Cohen.
hotclubofdetroit.com
anatcohen.com

8 pm
Tia Fuller Quartet
Saxophonist from Beyonce's All-Girl Band leads her own creative jazz ensemble
tiafuller.com

10 pm
Patti Austin
Legendary jazz and blues vocalist in a rare Harrisburg appearance.
pattiaustin.com

2 comments:

  1. I'm so excited to know about this! I'm looking forward to going and will attend BOTH days (Fri AND Sat!).

    Thanks for the post!

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  2. Good for you. Go to Odunde on Sunday for the trifecta.

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