Sky Blue Jazz Ensemble, a talented and popular jazz group from Grand Marais, which earlier conducted workshops with the Cook County High School Band, is also collaborating with Two Harbors and Silver Bay schools to present A Century of Jazz, a concert of familiar jazz tunes spanning the last century, with discussions of the history behind the music.
The members of the Sky Blue Jazz Ensemble are Al Anderson on trombone, Brett Jones percussion, Erik Hahn on sax, Karina Roth vocals, Mike Roth on bass and Mike DeBevec on piano.
The jazz ensemble is working with the Two Harbors Concert and Jazz Band, directed by Dave Haaverson and the William Kelley High School Jazz Band in Silver Bay, directed by Kris Peterson. A concert was held in Two Harbors on Monday, January 19.
The Silver Bay concert will be Monday, January 26 at 7 p.m. at the William Kelley High School Auditorium.
Tickets are $5 for adults, youths 18 and under are free. Tickets are available at the door.
These concerts are part of a five-year project begun in 2011 by the Sky Blue Jazz Ensemble to provide concerts, presentations, workshops, recordings, and radio shows for rural North Shore communities. The goal is to entertain and to educate people about the role of jazz in the evolution of popular American music.
Organizer Mike DeBevec said these activities are made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation and an appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. The Northern Lake County Arts Council is cosponsoring the Silver Bay event.
There will also be a concert with the Cook County High School band on May 12, 2015—mark your calendars!
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