Performers include Grammy winner Dan Pugach with his Jazz Orchestra with guest vocalist Grammy winner Nicole Zuraitis. Also vocalist Vanish Gould with the Alex Nakhimovsky Trio, Jonathan Barber with Vision Ahead, the Liviu Pop group, the Hall Monitors and Grass Routes Bluegrass. Additional performers include award winning Hall High School and Timothy Edwards Middle School [...]

Real Art Ways welcomes trombonist, composer and arranger Papo Vázquez back to Hartford for our annual concert and holiday parranda. Bring an instrument and get in free! Otherwise, general admission is $10. Please note, the venue for this event will be Black Eyed Sally’s at 350 Asylum Street in Hartford. Parranda de aguinaldo (Christmas folk [...]

The Hartford Jazz Society invites you to an unforgettable evening of jazz, community, and celebration at their 2nd "Celebrating Jazz & Community" event on Saturday, December 6th, from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM. This exciting event will be held at the Artists Collective Ballroom, located at 1200 Albany Avenue in Hartford. Immerse yourself in the [...]

Sara Serpa (voice), Matt Mitchell (piano) Sara Serpa and Matt Mitchell are long-time collaborators. The duo appears on Ingrid Laubrock's new release, Purposing the Air, featuring the poetry of Erica Hunt. “Serpa possesses a preternatural cool, injecting weightless sophistication and melodic grace into everything she touches.” - Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader A native from Lisboa, [...]

Jazz history is filled with stirring torch songs and ballads — brilliant expressions of suffering after love has gone awry. The jazz record shelf even contains some classic album-long explorations of melancholy. But it’s hard to find precedent in pianist Christian Sands’ new Embracing Dawn, his fifth full-length effort for Mack Avenue Records. Sands’ LP [...]