Maryland Summer Jazz Festival Launches 2008 Season
ROCKVILLE, Md., English hawthorn 1 -- Marylanders and tourists will be
treated to a chill serving of jazz when the Old Line State Summer Nothingness Festival
stages its fourth annual case July 15-25, 2008 in Rockville, well-nigh the
nation's capital. For musicians, the event offers exciting workshops and
jams: a chance for gifted amateurs and semi-pros to test their spunk. Malarkey
lovers can savour ternion major concerts featuring renowned artists from Frederick North
America and EEC.
The Teaching Artists
Held at Angel Mark Presbyterian Church service in Rockville, the festival
features many critically acclaimed performers and instructors.
Virtuoso sax player and Yamaha recording artist Jeff Coffin flies
in from Nashville, making sentence from a far-reaching touring schedule with
the Grammy Award-winning supporting players Bela Maculation and the Flecktones.
Saxist and composer Jeff Antoniuk is artistic film director and a
popular teacher and performing artist at MD Summertime Jazz. His 2007 CD, Here
Today with the Jazz Update dance band, quickly climbed the jazz charts in the US
and hit No. 2 in Canada, Antoniuk's fatherland.
Guitar lovers take distinction: Steve Herberman returns for the fourth season.
According to Jazz Times, "Steve Herberman exhibits a vast harmonic pallet
involving uncommon stretches on the fretboard along with a real capacity to
cauterise on fluent single note lines."
Each year, newly sounds are heard onstage and in festival classrooms.
Check out the Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian sounds of bassist Pepe Gonzalez.
Born in Spain and support in Washington, DC, he has appeared on many
recordings and in festivals in Europe and the Caribbean.
Trumpet player Alex Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr., Ph.D. began his Latin Jazz exploration with
Baltimore/DC-based Rumba Club and went on to work with Giovanni Hildago and
Monguito Santamaria. Tours with Steve Winwood and Miami Auditory sensation Machine show
the pop side of his career. He'll teach and perform at Maryland Summer Malarky
2008 along with ten-spot other malarky artists.
The Event Keeps Growing
Maryland Summertime Wind began as a three-day nothingness day bivouac with 36
students. Workshops, jams and concerts consume been added as the event grew.
Last year, fans and students came from many states -- just about for a day or
evening, about for deuce weeks of jazz immersion.
Perhaps because of the American Matinee idol craze, vocalists clamored for
inclusion in this year's festival. Hence vocal workshops take been added to
help aspiring jazz singers reach their musical theater goals.
The jazz summer camp for adults and gifted high school musicians is distillery the
spunk of the festival. Only public performances have been extended this year
to include a July 15 concert at Megrims Alleyway, the nation's premier malarky
baseball club, located in Georgetown. Additional concerts volition be held on July 18
and 25 at Saint Marker Presbyterian Church service in Rockville at 10701 Old
Georgetown Road.
The deadline for idle words workshop registration is June 30. Event tickets
are available May 1, 2008. For to a greater extent information call 410-349-1082 or impose
hypertext transfer protocol://www.marylandsummerjazz.com.
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Middleman:
Paula Phillips
410-349-1082
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