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The Jazz Jam All-Stars Concert returns; featuring the high-caliber musicians who regularly perform at the Jazz Jam, including trumpet & sax players, guitarists, drummers & a violinist, and singers. These all-ages group of professionals, amateurs, students, and hobbyists will be backed by the Jazz jam house band led by Carol Sudhalter. This program will be a celebratory event honoring the musicians and audiences who regularly attend our in-person Jazz Jams, our virtual Jazz Jams during the shut-down, and our fabulous house band led by Carol Sudhalter, with Joe Vincent Tranchina, Scott Neumann and Eric Lemon. The Jazz Jam All-Stars Concert is a celebration of a community of musicians and music lovers, in the spirit of Louis Armstrong.

Singer/composer John "Giovanni" Padovano will bring his solo show to 1st Cup Coffeehouse on Sunday , September 18th from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. Padovano is also known as The Ironbound Crooner and aka The Coffeehouse Performer. His music is strongly influenced by his very early years in the Ironbound Section of Newark, NJ. Padovano will perform songs from his original song collections that include the titles: "Dusty Road Session" "solo recordings at Baroque Park," " Poesia and Chanson," "The Coffeehouse Performer," and "Wandering Square Impromptu no. 12". John "Giovanni" Padovano has in the past performed locally at Princeton University and at other places in Princeton. His music is called "Poesia and Chanson".

The Mala Waldron Quartet, a group of internationally acclaimed jazz virtuosos headed by jazz vocalist/pianist/composer Waldron accompanied by her top-flight backup group, will make a rare local
appearance in Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT)’s Music in the Box Series.

Born from the rich musical and historical heritage of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia (the first free Black town in the Americas), Kombilesa Mí fuses the traditional sounds of the community with urban pop. The band's members experiment with the instruments created by their ancestors (and introduced to them when they were young) by layering them between new sounds.

Over traditional percussion, metal handmade drums of their own design, and marímbula, Kombilesa Mí rhymes and raps in Spanish and the traditional Palenquero language, a fusion of African Bantu, Portuguese, French and English. During the performance, you'll hear them call their music "RFP," which means Rap Folklórico Palenquero, a combo of cumbia, son de negro, mapalé and son palenquero.

What is Summer Arts?

For the second year, ACCA Creates is working in collaboration with Keys 2 Success!

Summer Arts is an immersive arts program that is free of cost to all students. Breakfast and lunch will also be provided to participating campers. Student Artists engage in six weeks of arts training in community activism, creative writing, dance, music-piano/voice, theater, and visual art, culminating in performances in selected county and city parks of Newark. Classes are from 9am-4pm. This immersive summer arts program culminates with a showcase of students' works of art/creative writing, works in progress, and a production of Lion King Jr.

Summer Arts will conclude with performances by the students during the week of August 8-13 after camp hours. More information about the performance schedule can be found on the ACCA Creates Instagram page (@acca.creates).

One Breath Rising has been presenting spoken word and music since 2015. We have compiled a collection of poetry and prose written by the literary artists who have performed for One Breath Rising, entitled At the Crossroads: The One Breath Rising Anthology of Poetry and Prose. Celebrate with us with the Jay Rodriguez Trio, and poets, Mervyn Taylor, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Angela Lockhart-Aronoff and Robert Gibbons.

New Orleans' own Davis Rogan returns to New York for one night of classic New Orleans rhythm and blues and his funky original music.

Davis Rogan is an American musician and motion picture actor, writer and consultant. He has worked on Treme in several capacities. He is the inspiration for the major character Davis McAlary. He was a consultant for the series pilot "Do You Know What it Means". He was the piano coach to starring cast members Steve Zahn (who plays Davis McAlary) and Michiel Huisman (who plays Sonny) throughout the first season. His music has featured in the show several times. He also plays himself in the show. He returned as a consultant and recurring co-star for the second season in 2011.

An expressive instrumentalist, Cherry has a hip, melodic approach that is a refreshing contrast to guitarists who frequently resort to playing ‘finger music’, the execution of rapid streams of notes that serve no musical purpose other than to fill space” —JazzTimes

Acclaimed jazz guitarist Ed Cherry brings his formidable trio to Zinc on Monday, September 26.

Guitarist Ed Cherry has been playing professionally since the early ’70s, as a sideman to musicians such as Tim Hardin, Jimmy McGriff, Henry Threadgill, and Jimmy Smith. Most famously, he spent over fifteen years in Dizzy Gillespie’s band, remaining with the group until the trumpeter’s death in 1993.

Showtimes are at 7:00 pm & 8:30 pm. Tickets: $25 in advance / $30 day of show. For more info, visit https://www.zincjazz.com.

Arts for Art welcomes back regular in-person live performances with a week of music celebrating the cause of Social Justice. All artists and audience members must be vaccinated. All performances are also livestreamed. Friday Oct. 8 7 pm: Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few Isaiah Collier - tenor, soprano sax / Jordan Williams - piano / Jeremiah Hunt - bass / Tim Regis - drums 8 pm: Luke Stewart’s Silt Trio  Brian Settles – tenor / Luke Stewart – bass / Chad Taylor - drums  9 pm: Dave Sewelson’s Freedom Fighter

In celebration of Indigenous People’s Day, Nina Cooke John, the Architect and Designer of Newark’s Harriet Tubman Monument, invites the Newark community to participate in the monument’s inaugural tile-making workshop. In this Community Voices Workshop, guests will be asked to etch their stories of freedom and liberation onto wet clay that will later be fired and integrated into the final design of the monument. In June 2020, amid calls for racial justice and by order of Mayor Ras Baraka, the city initiated the removal of the Christopher Columbus statue in Newark’s Washington Park. Replacing it will be a new monument to honor the legacy of Harriet Tubman and the history of the Underground Railroad. The Harriet Tubman Monument is projected to be revealed in Summer 2022. This tile-making workshop will invite Newark residents to be an integral part of this public project. It will intertwine the relevance of community in Tubman’s story, as the conductor of the Underground Railroad, with our own stories.