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Ellington Carthan, piano Eliot Seppa, bass Allen Bernard Branch, drums Just like his namesake, jazz pulses through Ellington Carthan’s veins. This up-and-coming jazz pianist, whose diverse career includes performing, teaching, producing, and composing, holds dual degrees in jazz studies and music technology. Born in California and raised in North Carolina, it’s perhaps Carthan’s bicoastal upbringing that make him such a versatile musician. Like his mentor, celebrated pianist Cyrus Chestnut, Carthan enjoys mixing genres and resists being typecast. Carthan has been honored to perform at prestigious venues such as The Kennedy Center, Strathmore AMP, the Library of Congress, Smithsonian museums, Howard University, and more. Notable Collaborators: Afro Blue, Warren Wolf, Kris Funn, Cyrus Chesnut, Josanne Francis, Sarah Reich, Elijah Jamal Balbed, Michael Bowie, Imani-Grace Cooper, and Rochelle Rice. Eliot Seppa is a bassist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Washington, DC. He began playing the upright bass at nine years old and the electric bass at 14. Eliot graduated from Howard University with his Bachelor’s degree in 2013 and his Master’s degree in 2018, both in Music - Jazz Studies. Eliot is equally comfortable playing bass with an orchestra, jazz quintet, R&B singer, gospel choir, or afrobeat band. His ability and affinity for soaking in the nuances of many different genres has led him to opportunities to perform with many of the top musicians in the DC area and tour internationally with artists such as Raul Midon, Cecily and The Jogo Project. Eliot leads jazz groups ranging in size from a trio to a big band. His music embraces rich harmonies, syncopated rhythms, and organic interplay between the band members. Allen Bernard Branch, a.k.a Aldo B., is a master percussionist, background vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (piano, keyboard, guitar, bass). Born and raised in Baltimore, Aldo attended the Baltimore School for the Arts where he studied percussion with Donna DiStefano and John Locke of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. After attending the Baltimore City Community College, Aldo toured the United States with various bands and throughout Europe with the Original USA Gospel Singers and Band. After three European tours, Aldo moved to New York City and played with multiple bands. Aldo was scouted by a casting agent to appear as Carlton Barrett of The Wailers in the HBO series, Vinyl in 2016. Aldo is a student at The Peabody Institute (anticipated Bachelors of Music, 2021), a musician for The Friendship Baptist Church, a keyboardist for The Living Word Ministries and a bassist and percussionist for the Unified Voices Choir of Johns Hopkins Hospital (UV). With UV, Aldo has accompanied such artists asVicki Winans, Beverly Crawford, Daryl Coley, Stevie Wonder, Lecrecia Campbell, Kathy Taylor, D’Atra Hicks, David and Tamela Mann. Showtime is 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT/11 pm GMT Streaming cost is $10 Donations are welcomed. The link will be revealed to you 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through May 21

The performance will illustrate the various ways that Jazz, America's only indigenous art form, incorporated the greatest songs from Musical Theater of the 1920s through the 1970s into the Jazz repertoire. Songs by Broadway's greatest composers, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein and others, will be performed by the Steve Cimino Quartet in creative jazz interpretations of these great works of art.

Ring in 2022 at The Wick Theatre with Jazz and Rock Icons International Jazz Singer Veronica Swift Takes the Stage with the Horn Section of Blood, Sweat & Tears! The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton is pulling out all the stops to ensure that the first moments of 2022 are legendary! After a show-stopping performance for 4th of July, singing sensation Veronica Swift is back again to blow the roof off! She’ll be backed by a rockin’ 8-person band including the horn section of jazz rock supergroup Blood, Sweat & Tears. The gala also includes a lavish gourmet dinner prepared by renowned Chef William Walden, with entertainment by Broadway and cabaret stars Avery Somers and Rob Russell. And of course, no New Year’s Eve would be complete without bubbly and a balloon drop! The Gala is $350 per person, purchase tickets by calling the box office at 561-995-2333. Gala concert only tickets are $150, and the 5:30 pm performance with champagne toast is $150. For more details visit www.thewick.org. “We are ringing in 2022 with a musical extravaganza!” said Marilynn A. Wick, Managing Executive Producer. “The Wall Street Journal has raved about Veronica’s miraculous voice and her gift for entertaining a crowd. And for New Year’s Eve she is taking it ‘next level’ as she mixes musical genres, effortlessly swaying between jazz, rock, pop, and funk. Backed by the horn section of the chart-topping band Blood, Sweat & Tears, we know our audiences will be dancing in the aisles!” With a repertoire running the gamut from swing to bebop to the Great American Songbook, Veronica Swift is a young but fully fledged star on the international jazz scene. Boasting a clear and lilting tone and radiant stage presence, she is also a master of rigorous vocal techniques like vocalese and scat. In the Wall Street Journal’s words: “[Swift] might be the best scat singer since Ella Fitzgerald, Anita O’Day, Sarah Vaughan and Mel Tormé.” Having first gained widespread attention in high-profile collaborations with the likes of Wynton Marsalis and Chris Botti, she has developed a devoted following among audiences. On stage, Veronica will be performing selections from her 2021 album, This Bitter Earth, along with additional jazz standards, rock classics, and more. As an added bonus, the legendary Blood Sweat & Tears horn section will be joining Veronica on stage for this very special evening of music. As Swift remarked recently, “This show for The Wick is not only a comeback after a year-long hiatus of no gigs, but it is a rebirth. The songs I’ve picked for this show not only encompass some of This Bitter Earth’s message, but we have also included new songs that mix classical with rock and roll and funk, as well as jazz. I now know, my purpose as an artist is to break down these genre barriers and fully immerse the audience in what to me is just simply: music.” The Wick Theatre is located at 7901 N. Federal Highway in Boca Raton, FL 33487