NW Folklife Call for Artists
The Northwest Folklife Festival invites musicians, dancers, community groups, artists, storytellers and instructors to apply to participate in the 2014 festival, May 23-26, 2014, Seattle Center. Submission deadline is December 1. More at www.nwfolklife.org.
Seattle JazzED Girls Jazz Day
Girls Jazz Day is a free one-day workshop open to all girl musicians and vocalists in middle or high school in the Seattle region. The workshop, with instructors Kelly Barr-Clingan, Johnaye Kendrick, Kate Olson, Barb Hudak, Jennifer Hinkle and Dawn Clement, is a fun focus on improving jazz musicianship, soloing and improvisation. Registration is required, at seattlejazzed.org/girlsday.html.
On the Horizon
Portland Jazz Festival
February 20-March 2, 2014
Ahmad Jamal, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton Marsalis, Pat Metheny Unity Group, Oregon Spring Quartet: Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, Esperanza Spalding & Leo Genovese, Eliane Elias, Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band, Yellowjackets, Kenny Werner Trio, Geoff Keezer, Christian McBride Trio, Buster Williams & Something More, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and more. Information at pdxjazz.com.
On the Horizon
Seattle Jazz Experience
March 14-15, 2014
Cornish Playhouse, Seattle Center
A new, two-day participatory youth jazz festival for high school and college jazz students debuts in March. The Seattle Jazz Experience features workshops, clinics and evening performances by Matt Wilson’s Arts & Crafts quartet, the Cuong Vu Trio and Bill Holman, Grammy-winning composer and National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master. Student participation in the Seattle Jazz Experience is by audition and is open to U.S. and Canadian applicants. More at seattlejazzexperience.org.
On the Horizon
Seattle Shakespeare Company & Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra
Such Sweet Thunder: The Duke Meets the Bard
February 15, 7:30pm, Nordstrom Recital Hall
February 16, 2pm, Kirkland Performance Center
SSC and SRJO present Duke Ellington’s Such Sweet Thunder suite (1957) paired with excerpts and sonnets (to be performed by SSC actors) from the plays that inspired Ellington. The suite’s twelve sections include eleven instrumental portraits of characters from Shakespeare, followed by a final piece evoking Shakespeare himself. Working with long-time collaborator Billy Strayhorn, Ellington created the suite soon after he and his band appeared at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.
Write Earshot Jazz
The Earshot Jazz magazine reflects and shares the many ways that jazz intersects with lives in the Northwest. Earshot Jazz is seeking submissions from writers: Please email story pitches, comments, news and announcements to editor@earshot.org.
Help the Jazz Around the Sound Calendar
Please email news and announcements about jazz gigs, concerts and community events to jazzcalendar@earshot.org.
