2017 South Carolina Jazz Festival
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Check out jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie’s historic hometown of Cheraw at the South Carolina Jazz Festival October 19-22, 2017!
Over 20 regional musical artists from the Carolinas will perform in an eclectic collection of venues. Add a Bebop Parade, Early Jazz and Late Night Jazz Restaurant Venues, the Dizzy Gillespie Scholarship Golf Tournament, a Birthday Party for Dizzy, kids’ art activities, Madonnari-Southern Style Chalk Competition, a Jazz Mass, a 5K run/walk and much more while you experience the joy of jazz from your head down to your toes! As Dizzy would say, “Bebop on down to Chee-raw, South Carolina on October 19-22.” For additional information, call 843.537.8420 ext. 12.
Dizzy Jazz Composition Competition
South Carolina Jazz Festival and ColaJazz are calling for your original jazz composition to celebrate the centennial year of Dizzy Gillespie’s birth! The winner will receive a $400 cash prize and have their work performed live at the Grand Finale Concert on Saturday, Oct 21! Visit the ColaJazz website for more details.
Historic Cheraw Cell Phone Tour
Free self-guided tour leads to over 25 points of interest, including Dizzy Gillespie Park, the Gillespie’s home church, and the school Dizzy attended. Tour brochures available at the Lyceum, Market Hall and the Chamber office.
Cheraw Has Jazz!
Not too many towns can boast of having a native son who performed at the White House for eight presidents. Click here to read more about Dizzy Gillespie.
2017 South Carolina Jazz Festival
jazz artist
Check out jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie’s historic hometown of Cheraw at the South Carolina Jazz Festival October 19-22, 2017!
Over 20 regional musical artists from the Carolinas will perform in an eclectic collection of venues. Add a Bebop Parade, Early Jazz and Late Night Jazz Restaurant Venues, the Dizzy Gillespie Scholarship Golf Tournament, a Birthday Party for Dizzy, kids’ art activities, Madonnari-Southern Style Chalk Competition, a Jazz Mass, a 5K run/walk and much more while you experience the joy of jazz from your head down to your toes! As Dizzy would say, “Bebop on down to Chee-raw, South Carolina on October 19-22.” For additional information, call 843.537.8420 ext. 12.
Dizzy Jazz Composition Competition
South Carolina Jazz Festival and ColaJazz are calling for your original jazz composition to celebrate the centennial year of Dizzy Gillespie’s birth! The winner will receive a $400 cash prize and have their work performed live at the Grand Finale Concert on Saturday, Oct 21! Visit the ColaJazz website for more details.
Historic Cheraw Cell Phone Tour
Free self-guided tour leads to over 25 points of interest, including Dizzy Gillespie Park, the Gillespie’s home church, and the school Dizzy attended. Tour brochures available at the Lyceum, Market Hall and the Chamber office.
Cheraw Has Jazz!
Not too many towns can boast of having a native son who performed at the White House for eight presidents. Click here to read more about Dizzy Gillespie.
2017 South Carolina Jazz Festival
jazz artist
Check out jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie’s historic hometown of Cheraw at the South Carolina Jazz Festival October 19-22, 2017!
Over 20 regional musical artists from the Carolinas will perform in an eclectic collection of venues. Add a Bebop Parade, Early Jazz and Late Night Jazz Restaurant Venues, the Dizzy Gillespie Scholarship Golf Tournament, a Birthday Party for Dizzy, kids’ art activities, Madonnari-Southern Style Chalk Competition, a Jazz Mass, a 5K run/walk and much more while you experience the joy of jazz from your head down to your toes! As Dizzy would say, “Bebop on down to Chee-raw, South Carolina on October 19-22.” For additional information, call 843.537.8420 ext. 12.
Dizzy Jazz Composition Competition
South Carolina Jazz Festival and ColaJazz are calling for your original jazz composition to celebrate the centennial year of Dizzy Gillespie’s birth! The winner will receive a $400 cash prize and have their work performed live at the Grand Finale Concert on Saturday, Oct 21! Visit the ColaJazz website for more details.
Historic Cheraw Cell Phone Tour
Free self-guided tour leads to over 25 points of interest, including Dizzy Gillespie Park, the Gillespie’s home church, and the school Dizzy attended. Tour brochures available at the Lyceum, Market Hall and the Chamber office.
Cheraw Has Jazz!
Not too many towns can boast of having a native son who performed at the White House for eight presidents. Click here to read more about Dizzy Gillespie.
2017 South Carolina Jazz Festival
jazz artist
Check out jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie’s historic hometown of Cheraw at the South Carolina Jazz Festival October 19-22, 2017!
Over 20 regional musical artists from the Carolinas will perform in an eclectic collection of venues. Add a Bebop Parade, Early Jazz and Late Night Jazz Restaurant Venues, the Dizzy Gillespie Scholarship Golf Tournament, a Birthday Party for Dizzy, kids’ art activities, Madonnari-Southern Style Chalk Competition, a Jazz Mass, a 5K run/walk and much more while you experience the joy of jazz from your head down to your toes! As Dizzy would say, “Bebop on down to Chee-raw, South Carolina on October 19-22.” For additional information, call 843.537.8420 ext. 12.
Dizzy Jazz Composition Competition
South Carolina Jazz Festival and ColaJazz are calling for your original jazz composition to celebrate the centennial year of Dizzy Gillespie’s birth! The winner will receive a $400 cash prize and have their work performed live at the Grand Finale Concert on Saturday, Oct 21! Visit the ColaJazz website for more details.
Historic Cheraw Cell Phone Tour
Free self-guided tour leads to over 25 points of interest, including Dizzy Gillespie Park, the Gillespie’s home church, and the school Dizzy attended. Tour brochures available at the Lyceum, Market Hall and the Chamber office.
Cheraw Has Jazz!
Not too many towns can boast of having a native son who performed at the White House for eight presidents. Click here to read more about Dizzy Gillespie.
We are eagerly looking ahead to the 2018 and the world renown jazz musicians who will fill our stage and the ballroom air with their music!
MUSICAL LINEUP FOR THE 38TH ANNUAL NORTH CAROLINA JAZZ FESTIVAL
Thursday, February 1
7:30 – 7:35 Welcome
7:35 – 8:15 MANGROOVE – presenting A Tribute to Horace Silver (Mangroove is a local band, led by Manny Santos, a percussionist who moved here from Boston a few years ago.
Also in the group are Teddy Burg – flute and sax, Brian Miller – sax, Jack Krupicka – on piano, and Doug Irving – bass)
8:20 – 9:20 THE NICKI PARROTT TRIO bringing us their “road show”! Nicki, Rossano Sportiello and Eddie Metz will be coming off a tour of the South where they will have
been featuring songs from their cds. Individually these musicians are some of our favorites — together they will be sensational!
9:20 – 9:35 Intermission
9:35 – 9:50 ROSSANO SPORTIELLO – solo piano
9:55 – 10:30 As usual, for the Styles of Jazz evening, we will end with a set of a style that our event is best known for – The Traditional Jazz Jam, led by ADRIAN CUNNINGHAM, will feature some of our NCJF All-Stars.
NCJF ALL-STARS FOR FRI. & SAT.
* = new to NCJF stage
Banjo – * Cynthia Sayer
Guitar – Nate Najar
Violin – Jonathan Russell
Bass – * Debbie Kennedy & Herman Burney
Drums – Chuck Redd & Eddie Metz Jr.
Piano – Rossano Sportiello & * Conal Fowkes
T-bone – Dion Tucker & Jim Fryer
Reeds – Adrian Cunningham & * Scott Robinson
Trumpet/Cornet – Bruce Harris & Ed Polcer
Our Fri. & Sat. night 4 hour concerts feature 7 sets each, with 6 or 7 musicians in each set, and each set has a different leader. These are fantastic musicians from around the globe who get together to perform JAZZ, our truly American art form.
WILMINGTON HILTON RIVERSIDE is home of the
North Carolina Jazz Festival @ Wilmington.
Special room rate for NCJF attendees. $119 per night.
For hotel reservations please call 910-763-5900
We are eagerly looking ahead to the 2018 and the world renown jazz musicians who will fill our stage and the ballroom air with their music!
MUSICAL LINEUP FOR THE 38TH ANNUAL NORTH CAROLINA JAZZ FESTIVAL
Thursday, February 1
7:30 – 7:35 Welcome
7:35 – 8:15 MANGROOVE – presenting A Tribute to Horace Silver (Mangroove is a local band, led by Manny Santos, a percussionist who moved here from Boston a few years ago.
Also in the group are Teddy Burg – flute and sax, Brian Miller – sax, Jack Krupicka – on piano, and Doug Irving – bass)
8:20 – 9:20 THE NICKI PARROTT TRIO bringing us their “road show”! Nicki, Rossano Sportiello and Eddie Metz will be coming off a tour of the South where they will have
been featuring songs from their cds. Individually these musicians are some of our favorites — together they will be sensational!
9:20 – 9:35 Intermission
9:35 – 9:50 ROSSANO SPORTIELLO – solo piano
9:55 – 10:30 As usual, for the Styles of Jazz evening, we will end with a set of a style that our event is best known for – The Traditional Jazz Jam, led by ADRIAN CUNNINGHAM, will feature some of our NCJF All-Stars.
NCJF ALL-STARS FOR FRI. & SAT.
* = new to NCJF stage
Banjo – * Cynthia Sayer
Guitar – Nate Najar
Violin – Jonathan Russell
Bass – * Debbie Kennedy & Herman Burney
Drums – Chuck Redd & Eddie Metz Jr.
Piano – Rossano Sportiello & * Conal Fowkes
T-bone – Dion Tucker & Jim Fryer
Reeds – Adrian Cunningham & * Scott Robinson
Trumpet/Cornet – Bruce Harris & Ed Polcer
Our Fri. & Sat. night 4 hour concerts feature 7 sets each, with 6 or 7 musicians in each set, and each set has a different leader. These are fantastic musicians from around the globe who get together to perform JAZZ, our truly American art form.
WILMINGTON HILTON RIVERSIDE is home of the
North Carolina Jazz Festival @ Wilmington.
Special room rate for NCJF attendees. $119 per night.
For hotel reservations please call 910-763-5900
We are eagerly looking ahead to the 2018 and the world renown jazz musicians who will fill our stage and the ballroom air with their music!
MUSICAL LINEUP FOR THE 38TH ANNUAL NORTH CAROLINA JAZZ FESTIVAL
Thursday, February 1
7:30 – 7:35 Welcome
7:35 – 8:15 MANGROOVE – presenting A Tribute to Horace Silver (Mangroove is a local band, led by Manny Santos, a percussionist who moved here from Boston a few years ago.
Also in the group are Teddy Burg – flute and sax, Brian Miller – sax, Jack Krupicka – on piano, and Doug Irving – bass)
8:20 – 9:20 THE NICKI PARROTT TRIO bringing us their “road show”! Nicki, Rossano Sportiello and Eddie Metz will be coming off a tour of the South where they will have
been featuring songs from their cds. Individually these musicians are some of our favorites — together they will be sensational!
9:20 – 9:35 Intermission
9:35 – 9:50 ROSSANO SPORTIELLO – solo piano
9:55 – 10:30 As usual, for the Styles of Jazz evening, we will end with a set of a style that our event is best known for – The Traditional Jazz Jam, led by ADRIAN CUNNINGHAM, will feature some of our NCJF All-Stars.
NCJF ALL-STARS FOR FRI. & SAT.
* = new to NCJF stage
Banjo – * Cynthia Sayer
Guitar – Nate Najar
Violin – Jonathan Russell
Bass – * Debbie Kennedy & Herman Burney
Drums – Chuck Redd & Eddie Metz Jr.
Piano – Rossano Sportiello & * Conal Fowkes
T-bone – Dion Tucker & Jim Fryer
Reeds – Adrian Cunningham & * Scott Robinson
Trumpet/Cornet – Bruce Harris & Ed Polcer
Our Fri. & Sat. night 4 hour concerts feature 7 sets each, with 6 or 7 musicians in each set, and each set has a different leader. These are fantastic musicians from around the globe who get together to perform JAZZ, our truly American art form.
WILMINGTON HILTON RIVERSIDE is home of the
North Carolina Jazz Festival @ Wilmington.
Special room rate for NCJF attendees. $119 per night.
For hotel reservations please call 910-763-5900
Tim Fischer, CCU assistant professor of music, and Matthew White, CCU associate professor of music, present an evening of original music and jazz standards, accompanied by Charleston-based musicians Brett Belanger on double bass and Adam Ray on drums.
Fischer is a jazz guitarist, composer and educator who has performed across the United States as well as in Europe. He holds a D.M.A. in studio/jazz guitar with a minor in Musicology from the University of Southern California. As a trumpeter, composer and educator, White teaches trumpet lessons, directs the CCU Jazz Ensemble and Combo 1, and manages the Wheelwright Recording Studio; he holds degrees from the University of North Florida and the University of Miami.
Belanger earned his B.A. in jazz performance and theory at the College of Charleston and plays professionally around the Southeast. Ray is also a graduate of College of Charleston, having earned a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in music performance. He has performed at the Charleston Jazz Festival, the Folly Beach Jazz Festival, and with many professional big bands in the Charleston region.