Events for November 22, 2024 - November 22, 2024

If you would like to participate in the DRIFT/LOOP performance, please watch this short overview videoand fill out this Google form to indicate your interest and availability. Come hear tones drift in and out of Olin Library throughout Homecoming Weekend. Over the course of twenty-four hours, the stacks will ring vibrantly with reverberated tones, shimmer [...]

DAY 1: Friday, November 1 @ 118 Elliot St. Gallery 5:00 – 8:00 pm: Youth musicians perform as part of Gallery Walk (no reservations required) On Friday, November 1st, the VJC, in collaboration with 118 Elliot Gallery, will present a selection of student groups as part of Brattleboro’s Gallery Walk hosted by Downtown Brattleboro Alliance. [...]

April Varner - Vocals Aaron Matson - Guitar Eytan Schillinger-Hyman - Bass Aaron Seeber - Drums “I am  music” was one of April’s first proclamations as a very young child and it holds true to this day. Since singing her first notes as a four-year-old, inspired by none other than the Disney Princess movies, her [...]

Join Grammy–award winning musician, composer, educator, and activist Roxy Coss for a lecture-recital featuring a discussion of her background in artistic agency with live jazz improvisation. A renowned jazz saxophonist, Coss is the 2024-2025 Menakka and Essel Bailey ‘66 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, a Bailey College of the Environmental Think Tank fellow, and the founder and [...]

Day 2: Saturday, November 2 @ Vermont Jazz Center Student group performances, Ekep Nkwelle clinic for student musicians & Concert with Ekep Nkwelle Quartet 11:00 to 4:00 pm: Student group performances. Location: Vermont Jazz Center Main Stage (New!) On Saturday the VJC, in association with area high schools & universities, will present student groups performing [...]

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Karen Frisk is a jazz vocalist who has performed in several areas of the country with local and world-renowned jazz artists. On this evening, she will be joined by Kent Hewitt on piano, and Joe Fitzgerald on bass. All proceeds from this show go to The Buttonwood Tree. Originally from Cromwell Connecticut, Karen always claimed [...]

David Adewumi - Trumpet Max Light - Guitar Kris Monson - Bass Ryan Sands - Drums Hailing from Orange, CT/New Haven County, Ryan Sands has worked his way to becoming one of the top young drummers in his field. His emphatic performances have landed him performances with Terell Stafford, Geoffrey Keezer, Wayne Escoffrey, Tamir Hendleman, [...]

Hall High School Concert Jazz Band, Jazz Band II, KP Jazz Band, Bristow Big Band The concert will include both of Hall’s jazz bands, as well as the KP and Bristow middle school jazz ensembles. We will be benefiting Hands on Hartford, a nonprofit that helps economically disadvantaged residents of Hartford with food, housing, and [...]

Take a mid-week break to hear some jazz! SCSU faculty members David Chevan (bass) and Rex Cadwallader (piano) are joined by a special guest to create a free-flowing and spontaneous jazz performance.

Presented in conjunction with a concert featuring the music of Bill and Kenny Barron that will be presented on November 10 in Crowell Concert Hall at 3:00 PM. Kenny Barron is one of the preeminent living jazz pianists with hundreds of recording credits, more than a dozen Grammy Award nominations, the National Endowment for the [...]

The Duo performs a wide variety of traditional and contemporary jazz, as well as smooth jazz instrumentals. Jim and Bill have brought their many years of musical experience together to form this unique jazz guitar duo.

The Curtis Brothers Trio celebrates the music and style of their late mentor Ralph Peterson.  After fifteen years of recording, touring and working with maestro Peterson they plan to keep his musical spirit alive by not only performing his music but featuring one of his four chosen drummers on each performance to carry and evolve [...]