Aardvark Jazz Orchestra 52nd Annual Christmas Concert at Church Of The Covenant

Called “stunningly beautiful” (The New York City Jazz Record), The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 52nd Annual Christmas Concert featuring the premiere of Mark Harvey’s latest composition Peace, Good Will to All, inspired by Charles Ives and marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. The concert will also celebrate Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday year with several of his Sacred Concert pieces, showcasing Aardvark vocalist Grace Hughes in Tell Me It’s the Truth and Come Sunday. Jazz-infused carols will include What Child Is This, and the band will present an Aardvark perennial, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed on the very first Aardvark Christmas concert in 1973. ...

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Called “stunningly beautiful” (The New York City Jazz Record), The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 52nd Annual Christmas Concert featuring the premiere of Mark Harvey’s latest composition Peace, Good Will to All, inspired by Charles Ives and marking the 150th anniversary of his birth. The concert will also celebrate Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday year with several of his Sacred Concert pieces, showcasing Aardvark vocalist Grace Hughes in Tell Me It’s the Truth and Come Sunday. Jazz-infused carols will include What Child Is This, and the band will present an Aardvark perennial, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed on the very first Aardvark Christmas concert in 1973.

Tickets are $20 at the door. Proceeds will support the Poor People’s United Fund, an organization that works to alleviate the suffering of poor and homeless people in Greater Boston.

The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra has been called "spellbinding" (The Boston Globe), "captivating" (Jazz Improv), and “one of the best jazz ensembles in the world” (Jazz Podium, Germany). CultureJazz.France hailed the orchestra’s “expansive harmony, brilliant music... discipline, openness, and freedom…an exceptional big band.”

Aardvark gave its inaugural concert on December 23, 1973, at the Church of the Covenant in Boston as a benefit for the Chelsea Fire Fund. Every year since then, Aardvark has held a Christmas concert to support a deserving cause. Esteemed guests who have joined the Aardvark Christmas concerts include Sheila Jordan, Howard McGhee, Semenya McCord, Ron Gill, Jack Powers, and others. “The healing power of music is with us throughout the year,” says Mark Harvey, “but the Christmas concert is a special occasion for helping those in need and lifting our hearts in the spirit of peace, justice and good will toward all.”

The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra is managed by Americas Musicworks, Rebecca DeLamotte, director.

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