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Paul Carr & Friends Juneteenth Celebration: Songs of Celebration and Hope This performance is in remembrance of the historic African American “Juneteenth” Emancipation of the former Texas slaves. The term comes from the date June 19th, 1865 when slaves in Texas were freed although slavery had been officially abolished more than two years earlier. Today, Juneteenth continues to be celebrated throughout the country as a ritual of cultural pride and historical continuity. Don't miss this concert ~ please share with all your friends Paul Carr, Saxes Allyn Johnson, Piano Amy Shook, Bass Chris Latona, Drums Paul Carr, a Houston native and 1985 Howard University graduate, has dedicated his professional career to mastering the saxophone and the art of Jazz. He carries on the Texas tenor tradition espoused by great heroes such as the late Houstonians Arnett Cobb and Don Wilkerson who served as his early idols and mentors. He grew up in inner-city Houston and was a member of the Kashmere High School Stage Band, whose director, the late Conrad Johnson, is the subject of a documentary, Thunder Soul, produced by actor Jamie Foxx. Though never having had private music lessons, Paul has received several outstanding musician awards at high school and college jazz festivals. Paul has recorded 5 CD’s, which have been well received by critics and jazz fans alike. His new CD “DC-NYC Organ Sessions” eleased in September, 2014 and hit the top 10 on the Jazz Week radio play charts. His 2013 CD, “Standard Domain,” reached #3 on the Jazz Week radio play chart and stayed on the chart for 16 weeks. Paul has toured Russia, Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean and Central and South America and has shared the stage with many of the greatest names in jazz. Paul was a favorite of President Clinton during his term in office and Paul performed at many of the Clintons' private events. He also did a special performance for the late King Hussein and Queen Noir of Jordan at their residence in Aqaba, Jordan. Paul is passionately committed to the education of children and particularly as it relates to the preservation of jazz. In 2002, he founded the Jazz Academy of Music, which hosts summer camps and jazz ensembles for kids throughout the year. Paul has changed the lives of hundreds of his students by selflessly sharing his knowledge of music and life. Several of his students have been admitted and even received full scholarships to some of the top music schools and conservatories in the country. In fact, five of Paul's students have been admitted to the prestigious Julliard School of Music in New York. Paul’s work was acknowledged in 2012 by ABC Channel 7 News when he was selected as a “Harris Hero” for his amazing work with music students across the area. Most recently in March 2014, Paul received the prestigious, Howard University, “Benny Golson Jazz Master Award”, for his outstanding work as a performer, presenter and educator. He served as a panelist at the 2014 Congressional Black Caucus where he spoke on the importance of jazz education and advocated for a Bill currently being vetted in Congress that will offer federal support toward the advancement and preservation of traditional jazz. In 2010, Paul re-established the East Coast Jazz Festival as the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival and serves as its Executive and Artistic Director. The festival enjoys over 2,000 attendees that travel from states across the U.S. and beyond. Showtime is 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT/11 pm GMT A limited number of in-person seats are available for $25 each. Please email henry@andiemusik.com for stipulations. Streaming cost is $10 Donations are welcomed. The link will be revealed to you 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through June 25.

The Chelsea Music Festival presents the world premiere of composer Eric Nathan’s Just a Moment (2021) for two antiphonal oboes performed by oboists John Ferrillo and Amanda Hardy on Friday, June 25, 2021 at 7:30pm as part of the 2021 Virtual Festival. There will be a pre-concert Zoom conversation at 7:00pm with Eric Nathan, Amanda Hardy, and Chelsea Music Festival Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur. The online concert also includes clips with violinist Augustin Hadelich and pianist Orion Weiss and visuals by artist Kyle Meyer. Commissioned by the Chelsea Music Festival and Dr. Michael Sporn and dedicated to Ferrillo and Hardy, Just a Moment is a meditation on distance and intimacy. One oboe is placed on stage and the other in the balcony. They call out to each other, note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase, creating an unfolding melody, catching each other's notes, embracing these tones and the space that divides them, with subtle unisons and half-step dissonances mingling in echoes. There is a magical, trance-like sense of contemplation to the work, but also a sense of dancing joy. The audience hears the oboe on stage, and the echoes of the distant oboe from above, embracing and surrounding all in a sonic choreography that meets in the space between. Nathan says, “What the experience of the struggles of the past year has taught me most is to appreciate fleeting moments of beauty and connection, and how these can sustain us.” In the recorded premiere, the videography enables the audience to feel the distance between the players as well as experience the vastness and beauty of Boston’s Jordan Hall, where we cannot yet gather and listen to music. The video also brings us intimately into each of the players' worlds, closer and more privately, than if we heard it live.

Celebrate Pride month with with fun storytime program, recommended for kids ages 5-10 About this event Drag Queen Story Hour is just what it sounds like, drag queens reading stories to children. It is a program for children that teaches literacy through singing, talking, reading, and playing. Join Harmonica Sunbeam as she reads stories and sings songs focused on diversity, uniqueness, and kindness. The Comedy Queen Harmonica Sunbeam has been delighting audiences at nightclubs, cabarets, fundraising events, and supermarket openings throughout the United States and abroad for over 29 years. She is the North Jersey coordinator of Drag Queen Story Hour. Since the inception of Drag Queen Story Hour in the New York area, Miss Sunbeam has been featured in the New York Times and interviewed for a now viral video on Buzzfeed. The program will be available on Zoom.

This summer, two museums go head to head, but there can only be one winner! Art Olympics is an audience-driven competition, where you get to decide the winner. Competing in ten rounds, each museum will present a work of art for viewers to vote on. Fun, fast paced, and competitive, this event is sure to leave you wanting more! Get a look inside the collections of the Art Gallery of Windsor in Ontario, Canada & The Newark Museum of Art in Newark, NJ as they show off their best and most unique works. This session will be available on Zoom and will be Live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch. We recommend joining via Zoom to be able to access the polls to vote. This event will be live captioned by CART. This program is made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

When Kathleen Madigan takes the stage, you’re in hilarious hands. She’s no nonsense, no holds barred, and “no filler, all killer.” The Chicago Tribune says she’s “all but perfected the art of crafting and delivering a perfect joke”—no surprise for a road warrior who’s played to sold-out crowds across the country for nearly 30 years. You’ve seen her on every late night show ever, along with her Netflix special “Bothering Jesus” and Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” NJPAC audiences demanded we bring Kathleen back after her last appearance in Newark—come see why. “She makes a lot of sense but not too much sense. Just enough to be hilarious.” –Jerry Seinfeld

PATRICIA PHILOMENA RAE (mother) Girl, woman, wife, mother; Innocent, curious, in-love, tireless, fearless, faithful, patient, giving, tired, unloved, yelled at, misunderstood. Best friend, a confidant, trusted - most dialed number. Always there, always interested, proud, worried. A martyr, afraid, sick, frail, alone, gone..... Tracey Yarad exposes her vulnerable, cavernous interior landscape through music after the passing of her mother in 2013. Melody, silence, and harmonic resonance becomes a place of retreat to heal and find meaning in the life of Patricia Philomena Rae. Never performed before Tracey brings together a powerful group of women to interpret, intertwine and collaborate. Claudia Acuña, improvisational voice, Elsa Nilsson, flute, Jennifer Vincent, bass, and Rosa Avila, drums. More information: https://www.traceyyarad.com https://www.claudiaacunamusic.com/ https://cslproductions.org/about/jennifer.shtml https://www.elsanilssonmusic.com/ https://maestramusic.org/profile/rosa-avila/

Rome Neal's  Banana Puddin' Jazz presents  "JAZZ: THE ASIAN AMERICAN CONNECTION" an evening of music dedicated to our Queen COBI NARITA ...Featuring: Rob Narita, Donald Vega, Taeko Fukao, Tommy Morimoto,  Nobuyuki Yamasaki , Mamiko Watanabe, Katsumi W. Ferguson, Jin Joo Yoo, Ivy Hsu, Rome Jin Neal Wen Ting Wu, Claire Choi, Mimi and Tomoko........More info www.romeneal.com Gratis on YouTube and FaceBook Live, however, your financial support will help to keep this program ALIVE and LIVE!venmo: rome-neal-2 or  PayPal: romekyn@earthlink.net  The tenth in a new series of Rome Neal's Banana Puddin' Jazz events! STREAMED LIVE! YOUTUBE & FB  "FREE"...   

New York saxophonist Daniel Bennett plays his CD release concert at the Triad Theater (158 West 72nd St, NYC) on June 26th at 7pm. Timeout New York chronicled Daniel Bennett's pioneering spirit during COVID-19, highlighting Bennett's leadership during the global pandemic. The UK Jazz Journal called Daniel Bennett, "a voice of hope." The Daniel Bennett Group performed over 100 outdoor concerts during the pandemic, playing regularly at the Canary Club, Gertrude NYC, and Tomi Jazz. Daniel Bennett's 2021 album release, "New York Nerve," was conceived outside under snow-covered heat lamps at New York City jazz clubs. The album features Bennett on saxophone, flute and clarinet. The bandleader is joined by bassist Kevin Hailey, guitarist Assaf Kehati, and Koko Bermejo on drums. The quartet was the first jazz group to record in Manhattan after the studios re-opened in 2020. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described Bennett's new music as, "Modern Jazz, Surf Rock and Avant-Pop." Daniel Bennett is a touring clinician and associate director of the New York Jazz Academy in Times Square. Daniel Bennett recently played woodwinds in 'Blank! The Musical,' the first fully improvised musical to launch on a national stage. The New York Times called the show, "Witty, Likable and Ludicrous!" Daniel Bennett's theatrical works have strongly influenced his eclectic sound and musical storytelling abilities as a bandleader.

This summer, The Newark Museum of Art partners with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra to bring you a vibrant outdoor series of concerts, films, and cultural celebrations. All programs will take place in the Museum’s Alice Ransom Dreyfuss Memorial Garden with a limited capacity and safety guidelines to ensure everyone has an enjoyable experience. NJSO Concertmaster Eric Wyrick leads the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players in Florence Price’s Five Folksongs in Counterpoint, an exploration of African American spirituals from a pathbreaking Black composer. Mendelssohn’s Octet, one of the composer’s finest earlier works, rounds out the program.

Being & Becoming was formed in 2017 by composer and trumpet player Peter Evans. The name of the band, drawn from the writing of Sufi writer and musician Inyat Khan, reflects the group's commitment to the challenge of spontaneous creativity. Evans' compositions for the band draw from a wide variety of sources, traditional and experimental, with a grounding in improvisational idioms, notated concert music and an array of experimental approaches. Being & Becoming's debut album was released in 2020 on More is More records in both vinyl and digital formats. https://peterevansmusic.bandcamp.com/album/being-becoming RSVP to receive YouTube link shortly before stream starts.