Jazz & Food Festival

Mark your calendars for Jazz Fest 2015: Sept 24th – Sept 27th!

September sizzles with a four-day celebration of jazz in downtown White Plains beginning Thursday, September 24th culminating in an outdoor Jazz & Food Festival on Mamaroneck Avenue with delicious food from area restaurants on Sunday, September 27th.

Jazz Fest 2015 is presented in partnership by ArtsWestchester, The City of White Plains and the White Plains Business Improvement District.

THURSDAY, SEPT 24:

• South American Jazz Project in Concert
  8:00 PM | ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY
  ➤ Enjoy an international ensemble of musicians performing compositions that blend South American rhythms and melodies with Jazz arrangements and improvisation. Led by Grammy award winning pianist, composer, arranger and producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and longtime resident of Westchester County, Daniel Freiberg explores music with roots in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile and Perú from a Jazz point of view.

FRIDAY, SEPT 25:

• Westchester Music Conservatory Jazz Faculty in Concert
  12:10 PM | Downtown Music at Grace Church, Main Street, White Plains, NY
  ➤ Featuring Guitarist Greg Diamond, performing classics and original compositions of Latin Jazz.
  Free Admission

• Women of Piedmont Blues
  8:00 PM | ArtsWestchester, 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY
  ➤ Featuring Poet Gold, Eleanor Ellis, Valerie Turner, Resa Gibbs and Jackie Merritt. A memorable evening that unites some of the key practitioners of the acoustic blues on the East Coast. Presented by the ArtsW Folk Arts Program in cooperation with thecountryblues.com.

SATURDAY, SEPT 26:

• Latin Jazz Workshop at the Music Conservatory of Westchester
  2:00 to 4:00 PM | 216 Central Ave., White Plains, NY 10606, 914-761-3900
  ➤ An introduction to the unique and exciting Latin Jazz genre. Learn about Latin Jazz concepts and instruments – clave, montuno, tumbao – and the music of its masters like Tito Puente, Cal Tjader and Hilton Ruiz.www.musicconservatory.org

  
  
• The White Plains Library Poetry Slam Presents – an Afternoon of Performance Poetry featuring the Duende Project
  3:00 PM | At the auditorium of the White Plans Library.
  100 Martine Avenue, White Plains, NY
  ➤ The Duende Project (formerly “Duende”) is the poetry and music project of Tony Brown, veteran performance poet; Steve Lanning-Cafaro, AKA Faro electric bass and Nylon string guitar; Chris Lawton on electric guitar and Chris O”Donnell, drums. They have released 5 CD/chapbook sets, “Jim’s Fall,” “americanized,” “The Duende Project,” “One Thing That Scares You,” and most recently “Basement Takes” on their own Loyal Weasel Productions; The Duende Project performs in the New England and Eastern Seaboard regions regularly.
  Program in cooperation with Zork’s White Plains Library Slam.
  
  
• Brazil Meets Jazz
  8:00 PM | White Plains Performing Arts Center,
  11 City Place, White Plains, NY
  ➤ With Grammy-nominated Brazilian Trio featuring Helio Alves, piano, Nilson Matta, bass and Duduka Da Fonseca, drums, with Maucha Adnet, vocals, and Mark Morganelli, flugelhorn. Presented in association with the White Plains Performing Arts Center.

read more: https://artswestchester.org/2015-jazz-fest/