2023-2024 MUSIC SEASON ARCHIVES
Women in Jazz:
Saluting Black Women Jazz Artists
of Earlier Times
JAZZ CONCERT IN CELEBRATION
OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Saluting Black Women Jazz Artists
of Earlier Times
JAZZ CONCERT IN CELEBRATION
OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Charlottesville Vocalist
Stephanie Nakasian
and Richmond Pianist
Lucy Kilkpatrick
Stephanie Nakasian
and Richmond Pianist
Lucy Kilkpatrick
7:30 pm February 3, 2024
Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street, Amherst, VA 24521
This duo, along with bass and drums, will perform a tribute to black blues and jazz singers of the 1920s, Bessie Smith and
Ma Rainey, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald going forward through the big bands era and even a little “Bop.”
Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street, Amherst, VA 24521
This duo, along with bass and drums, will perform a tribute to black blues and jazz singers of the 1920s, Bessie Smith and
Ma Rainey, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald going forward through the big bands era and even a little “Bop.”
Women in Jazz:
Saluting Black Women Jazz Artists
of Earlier Times
JAZZ CONCERT IN CELEBRATION
OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Saluting Black Women Jazz Artists
of Earlier Times
JAZZ CONCERT IN CELEBRATION
OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Vibraphonist Cecilia Smith and
Jazz Pianist Lafayette Harris Jr.
Jazz Pianist Lafayette Harris Jr.
7:30 pm February 10, 2024
Sydnor Performance Hall
in Schewel Hall
at the University of Lynchburg
College St., Lynchburg, VA 24501
There will be a pre-concert talk
by Cecilia Smith
beginning at 6:30 pm
The duo, with Ed Mikenas, bass, and Nick Moore, drums, will perform a concert built around Smith’s Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project. Williams (1910-1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer who wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and recorded more than one hundred records.
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. presents this concert
with the University of Lynchburg Music Department
and the University of Lynchburg Office of Inclusive Excellence
Sydnor Performance Hall
in Schewel Hall
at the University of Lynchburg
College St., Lynchburg, VA 24501
There will be a pre-concert talk
by Cecilia Smith
beginning at 6:30 pm
The duo, with Ed Mikenas, bass, and Nick Moore, drums, will perform a concert built around Smith’s Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project. Williams (1910-1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer who wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman and recorded more than one hundred records.
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. presents this concert
with the University of Lynchburg Music Department
and the University of Lynchburg Office of Inclusive Excellence
The Baltimore Consort
“The Food of Love - Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare”
“The Food of Love - Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare”
7:30 pm February 24, 2024
Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street
Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street
The Baltimore Consort’s core repertory for this concert consists of music of the Elizabethan era — songs from Shakespeare plays, with the band’s colorful array of instruments. Mary Anne Ballard, treble and bass viols; Mark Cudek, cittern, bass viol; Larry Lipkis, bass viol, recorder, krummhorn, gemshorn; Grammy nominated Ronn McFarlane, lute; and Mindy Rosenfeld, flutes, fifes, bagpipes, and krummhorn. Ethereal soprano Danielle Svonavec performs some of the greatest hits from the Bard’s songbook.