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  • The New York Jazz Society presents four award-winning jazz divas who will celebrate Women"s History Month through the Jazz performances of Joy F Brown, Nikita White, Grace Young, and Kimberla Parrot.
    The free concert will take place at THe Natl Jazz Museum In Harlem 58 W 129th street Saturday, March 25th, 2023 from 530pm to 830 pm,

    The singers are part of The John Satchmo Mannan Band which includes Bertha Hope on piano Denton Dariren on piano, Tarik Shah, on bass Craig Haynes, drum, Alvin Flythe drums, and John S mannan vocalist /saxophonist and band leader


  • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE




    REMEMBERING AFRICAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO JAZZ
    FROM AUTUMN LEAVES TO AFRICAN VILLAGE





    On Saturday FEB 18, th from 6:30 pm to 930PM at HARLEM HERITAGE TOURS at 104 Lenox Avenue (115 -116 Street) piano masters Bertha Hope, Denton Darien, saxophone/vocalist John Satchmo Mannan, Alvin Ellington Flythe on tenor sax Tarik Shah on bass and many others will celebrate the music and contributions of Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Horace Silver and others to the Jazz idiom
    The concert is live and free The event is supported by the New York State Jazz Literacy & Arts Society, the law firm of Lipsig, Shapey Manus and Moverman and The Jazz Foundation of America
    Free live stream connect is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhOImcp1ed_3JX

  • SALUTE TO MOTHER'S DAY FREE JAZZ CONCERT ON TAP AT RIVERBANK


    Supported by the JAZZ FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, this event will feature tap dance star, Calvin Booker

    and John Satchmo Mannan's Renaissance 2.0 Jazz Band featuring vocalists John Satchmo Mannan and

    Nikita White, saxophonist Alvin Flythe, Yayoi Ikawa Piano, Tarik Shah bass,Dave Gibson drums etc
    ADMISSION IS FREE
  • Celebrate the start of WheatonArts' 2024 creative season with this free kick-off event highlighting our many daily offerings and hands-on programming! Explore thought-provoking exhibits in the Museum of American Glass and Down Jersey Folklife Center, showcasing glass collections and the complexities and values of traditional arts through modern-day times. Experience various artist demonstrations throughout the campus, including glassmaking, pottery, large-scale murals, 3D printing, and more. Discover a series of hands-on projects to create across campus including a Community Wings collaborative art project and discounted glass-fused magnets in the Education Studio. Enjoy a bite to eat from food vendors and listen to live music.

    Wheaton Springs offers every visitor the chance to explore, experience, and create across a campus that inspires and heals the senses. Admission to all WheatonArts exhibits and artist studio demonstrations are FREE and open to the public, part of "Family Days! Presented by PNC Arts Alive!" Learn more at wheatonarts.org.

    WheatonArts is located at GPS: 1000 Village Drive, Millville, NJ 08332
  • Advocates for the homeless worry that Robert Marbut, a consultant who has been hired by many cities, will roll back the successes of arranging housing for the homeless.
  • Weekend Edition's classics commentator Elaine Fantham talk with host Scott Simon about what to do when your emperor wants to be a rock star. Roman Emperor Nero was this kind of ruler, and he took his music making very seriously.
  • New music from Blood Incantation, Maria W Horn, Vital Force, Forest of Tygers and Envy highlight a playlist of heavy, heady music.
  • The rallies, the crowd and the theatrics at each stop are straight out of Trump's 2016 playbook as the president casts himself as the upstart outsider fighting against the odds.
  • Pipeliners Local 798, which represents thousands of workers on projects across the country, has a history of racism and faces new allegations it discriminated against Black members.
  • The 19th century Connecticut school sought to convert young men from Hawaii, China, India and the Native American nations and then send them home as Christian missionaries. It did not go as planned.
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