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The FrostKings will open the library’s outdoor concert season. The FrostKings bring their unique blend of R&B,blues and swing, so come and enjoy the music of T-Bone Walker, Louis Jordan, Muddy Waters, and other blues greats. The concert will take place on the library’s front plaza. Due to COVID restrictions, there is a limit of 75 people allowed on the library's front lawn.For more information, please contact programming@englewood.bccls.org Rain date: April 18

Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam will stream live on Sunday, April 11th at 3pm from Upper Manhattan. New York City, April 5, 2021 - Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) continues its 2021 season of INTERGENERATIONAL JAZZ POWER JAM on Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 3 PM EST on Facebook Live and YouTube. In collaboration with The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, "World of Change" is our April Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam. From our first-ever live-streamed LATIN JAZZ POWER ON JAM a year ago as the worldwide pandemic spread, to our global dance and music spotlight last month with SWINGING INTO SPRING, the intergenerational whirlwind of talent that joined us to come together online over the past year has helped us to stay connected and inspired. For us, like you, it has been a world of change! Audiences of all ages are invited to participate. Tune in through Facebook and YouTube Live at jazzpower.org/powerjam2021 at 3 PM EST. Hosted by Jazz Power Initiative's Managing and Artistic Director Eli Yamin, our April Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam is a fun, friendly-family celebration featuring performances by Knoel Scott (saxophone), Jerry Madera (upright bass), Karen Joseph (flute), Alberto Toro (flute/saxophone), Nicki Denner (piano), Steven Oquendo (trumpet), Wilson Torres (percussion), Zaccai Curtis (piano), Eddie Venegas (violin and trombone), Dwayne "Cook" Broadnax (drums), Bruce Edwards (guitar), Chris Byars (saxophone), Shireen Dickson (dance), Mickey Davidson (dance), Frank Owens (piano), Max Pollak (tap and body percussion), Jennifer Vincent (bass), Ximena Salgado (dance), Annette Aguilar (percussion), and Eli Yamin (piano). For our audiences of all ages: Help us to showcase you at April's Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam! PASS THE MIC Dancers, musicians, singers, and poets are all invited to participate by submitting a video from 10 seconds to 3 minutes here (https://forms.gle/49UrWNyYaLwehUuHA), to spotlight their own WORLD OF CHANGE. With our thanks to our supporters: The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with the New York City Council and Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez; the Hispanic Federation; The Miranda Family Fund; The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; The New York State Council for the Arts; The National Jazz Museum in Harlem; The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation; Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer; and Jazz Power Initiative's individual supporters. For Artists bios, visit bit.ly/aworldofchange. About Jazz Power Initiative Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) organization founded in 2003. Jazz Power serves over 3100 New Yorkers and visitors annually - students, teachers, artists, seniors and general audiences, ages 8-80+, to promote youth development, and build more creative and inclusive communities through jazz music, theater and dance education and performance. Led by highly experienced teaching and performing artists who are award-winning jazz, theater and dance professionals, JPI offers multidisciplinary training, scholarships and performance opportunities to New York City youth, ages 8-22, from every economic and social milieu at low or no cost to families, with extended outreach to students in under-served New York City public schools in Northern Manhattan. We currently engage hundreds of students and their teachers annually, providing after-school instruction mainly in Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood (where our offices are located) and the Bronx. Our programs include after-school youth workshops at the United Palace; our monthly Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem; local community senior center workshops, and our annual Jazz Power Summer Institute at Lehman College (CUNY) for artists and educators. About The National Jazz Museum in Harlem The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is a thriving center for jazz that stimulates hearts and minds, and reaches out to diverse audiences to enjoy this quintessential American music. The Museum is committed to keeping jazz present and exciting in the lives of a broad range of audiences - young and old, novice and scholar, artist and patron, enthusiast and curious listener. Each year, the Museum produces and presents nearly 100 free programs in New York City, engages hundreds of professional jazz artists and reaches nearly 20,000 people from around the world. Media Contact: Janny Gonzalez, JPI Director of Business Affairs (917) 818-1759 info@jazzpower.org Follow us! Facebook: fb.com/jazzpowerinitiative Instagram: @jazzpowerinitiative Web: jazzpower.org More Information: http://jazzpower.org/powerjam2021

https://flushingtownhall.org/jihye-lee-quintet Jihye Lee Quintet: Rest in the Arms of Motherlands FRI, MAY 21, 2021 7:00 PM The concert will be performed and streamed LIVE from Flushing Town Hall Theater and you can watch live on Flushing Town Hall’s YouTube channel. For Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, composer/arranger Jihye Lee brings her first, all-female, Korean jazz quintet to Flushing Town Hall to perform an elegy for victims of anti-Asian hate crimes, including a special dedication to the women of the recent tragedy in Atlanta, GA. Lee will present her original compositions as well as arrangements of well-known songs.

Beloved Brooklyn venue Barbès returns to presenting live music after NYC’s COVID-19 pause with a brand new livestream series. Télé-Barbès is broadcast live from Barbès legendary backroom, several nights a week.

“Live is dead but we’re trying our best to clone it,” says Barbès owner Olivier Conan. “For the past 18 years, against all reasonable odds, we have managed to present close to 1,000 shows a year. For the past three and half months, Barbès has been silent, but we’re doing our very best to adapt and not become a casualty.

“We’re trying to recreate the live experience as much as possible - with quality sound, and cameras that don’t imitate parking garage surveillance cameras. We find the experience uplifting, because it is the closest to live music we’ve come to in months.

“Our livestreams are under an hour, generally streamed at 6.00 pm. They favor listening music rather that party music, for obvious reasons. We’re minimizing the use of horns or multiple vocals: So no choirs, no brass bands, no opera. No very large bands - that means no Slavic Soul Party, no Bulla en el Barrio or some of the other extraordinary bands who have come to define our space.”

Still, many old favorites -- including Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet, Stephane Wrembel Trio, and The Crooked Trio -- have already returned for the Télé-Barbès series, with more to come; taking Barbès back to its roots as an incubator of original Brooklyn music and talent.

For the full schedule of Télé-Barbès upcoming performances, and to watch them live, check the Barbès website: https://www.barbesbrooklyn.com. Every performances is archived at the above address, and on Youtube, as well. All performances are free to watch, but a tip-jar link is included for donations to pay the musicians.

In addition to the Télé-Barbès series, last August's successful Barbès In The Woods event will also return, in a slightly-tweaked livestream format for 2020. Tune in on Saturday, August 8th for House Parties for Barbès, a very special Zoom party to keep spirits high and keep the lights on at the iconic Brooklyn bar. Featuring DJ sets from Nickodemus and Eric Banta from Names You Can Trust and performances from Son Rompe Pera and Underground System.

Ages: 10 – 15 Class Times: Saturdays 10AM – 12PM Semester: Fall: Oct 10, 2020 – Dec 19, 2020 Spring: Jan 23, 2021 – May 8, 2021 Tuition: Single Semester: $75 Full Year: $150 Bring the house down (from home). Write the story you want to see on stage, and bring it to life! In NJPAC’s at-home acting class, you’ll form a virtual troupe with other actors your age. Brainstorm, write and perform your very own material in our online theater. Learn storytelling, creative collaboration and acting essentials. No experience necessary—you already have everything you need to succeed.

Ages: 13 – 18 Class Times: Saturday 11AM – 3PM Semester: Fall: October 10 – December 19 Spring: January 9 – May 1 Tuition: Single Semester: $150 Full Year: $300 Play by your own rules. NJPAC’s jazz training program for musicians and vocalists has gone digital! Develop your own style and strengths as you work with our faculty of world-class professionals. You’ll have group classes in history, technique, improvisation, theory, and composition. You’ll even play live online with your ensemble. No previous jazz experience necessary—musicians and vocalists are welcome at any level of ability.

It’s no surprise Sarah Brightman is the biggest selling soprano in the world. Her crystalline voice is immediately recognizable across the globe: earthy yet ethereal, haunting yet angelic. Since her international breakthrough as Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, Sarah has toured extensively to widespread acclaim. She is credited with pioneering the classical crossover movement and is the only artist to have simultaneously topped the Billboard dance and classical charts. Don’t miss the awe-inspiring vocals of this luminous superstar.

http://www.flushingtownhall.org/virtual-jazz-jam Louis Armstrong Legacy Virtual Jazz Jam 2nd Wednesday each month 7PM EDT WATCH ON FACEBOOK AND ZOOM Led by Carol Sudhalter and our wonderful house band, the jam welcomes musicians including our jazz jammers from Queens/Long Island, as well as newcomers from around the world, to share their music, lift our spirits and honor those we have lost. If you'd like to watch this session LIVE, simply tune in to our Facebook page or ZOOM. For more information on how to participate and monthly themes, visit: http://www.flushingtownhall.org/virtual-jazz-jam

The central project of MasterVoices’ 2020-2021 season is a virtual rollout of award-winning composer Adam Guettel’s theatrical song cycle, Myths and Hymns, in an online staging conceived by Ted Sperling. Inspired by Greek myths and a 19th-Century Presbyterian hymnal, the 1998 cycle is a kaleidoscopic collection of musical genres as it explores the nature of faith and longing in a secular world. New short musical films illustrate the protagonist’s attempt to seek answers in four ways – through Flight, Work, Love, and Faith. The four chapters of this personal voyage will be released in free digital installments throughout the winter and spring – Flight (January 13), Work (February 24), Love (April 14), and Faith (May 26). All installments will remain available after their premieres for on-demand streaming on MasterVoices YouTube channel  until June 30, 2021. Star artists include Anderson & Roe, Yazmany Arboleda, Julia Bullock, Sammi Cannold, Cloud Chatanda, Lear deBessonet, Khristian Dentley, Renée Fleming, Annie Golden, Joshua Henry, Capathia Jenkins, Steven Kellogg, Mykal Kilgore, Norm Lewis, Jose Llana, Lucy Mackinnon, Danny Mefford, Kelli O’Hara, Elizabeth Stanley, Take 6, Ted Sperling, The MasterVoices Chorus, and more. The first chapter, FLIGHT, explores the possibility of finding fulfillment by rising up or away. After a jaunty prologue (“Prometheus”), Guettel frames the myth of Icarus as the story of a young man striving to get out from under his famous father’s shadow and shine like the sun. After his crash, the solace and hope of Migratory V expresses the human aspiration to fly together and soar above the troubles below. The retelling of Pegasus explores the fall of the hero Bellerophon when he angers Zeus. The chapter ends with the cycle’s first hymn text, Jesus the Mighty Conqueror, with its refrain consisting of the single word, “rise,” repeated over and over.

The Vermont Jazz Center Spring semester runs 10 weeks, February 15- April 30, 2021. Work exchange opportunities are available. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Registration questions and work exchange information:  ginger@vtjazz.org All Other Inquiries: eugene@vtjazz.org Private Lessons: Send summary of your musical background to vtjazz@gmail.com and we’ll match you with a qualified instructor. Schedule for Spring Education 2021 Mondays          5:00 - 6:00 pm      Blue Note Ensemble (in-person, begins 2/15/21) Tuesdays         10:30 am - Noon  Rhythm Lab (on-line, begins 2/16/21) 3:45 - 5:00 pm      Youth Jazz Ensemble (on-line, begins 2/16/21) 5:30 - 7:00 pm      Soubrette Recording Project (on-line, begins 2/16/21) Wednesdays   3:00 - 4:30 pm     Ear Training Theory (on-line, begins 2/17/21) 4:00 - 5:00 pm     NEW: Electric Bass in a Jazz Context (on-line, begins 2/17/21) 4:30 - 5:30 pm     Latin Jazz Ensemble (Starting date postponed) 7:00 - 8:30 pm     NEW: Music Around the World (on-line, begins 2/17/21) Thursdays 5:30 - 7:00 pm  Singing the Standards (on-line, begins 2/18/21) 8:00 - 9:00 pm  NEW: Jazz and Spirituality (on-line, begins 2/18/21) Fridays 4:30 - 5:30 pm   NEW: Hard Bop Plus, History (on-line, begins 2/19/21) Saturdays 11:00 am - 12:30 pm   NEW: 5 Goals of Jazz Guitar (on-line, begins 2/20/21) Sundays      7:00 - 8:30 pm    Zoom Tunes (last Sunday of each month) Tuition: • $200 per semester for ten 1 hour-long sessions • $250 per semester for ten 1 ½ hour-long sessions • Youth Jazz $100 for eight 1 ¼ hour-long sessions • Zoom Tunes $15 per 1 ½ hour-long session