Amelia Island Jazz Festival-Headliner ROSEANNA VITRO at Amelia Island Jazz Festival at Fernandina Beach Municipal Golf Club

Date: October 13, 2017

Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Venue: Fernandina Beach Golf Club

Address: 2800 Bill Melton Road
Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034

Cost: $45 General Admission; $65 VIP Seating; $150 High Note Club w/Amenities

Contact: Les DeMerle | info@ameliaislandjazzfestival | (904) 504-4772

Superb Jazz vocalist Roseanna Vitro presents a tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald. Plus Art Of The Trio with Les DeMerle, drums, Mike Levine, keyboards, and Dennis Marks, bass. Vitro earned a 2012 Grammy Nomination for "Best Vocal Jazz Album," The Music of Randy Newman, on Motéma Music. An inventive singer, her strengths include rhythmic acuity and free-spirited spontaneity, often heard in her improvisations, using both scat syllables and lyrics. Additionally, she has released twelve critically acclaimed recordings for Motéma, Telarc, Concord, Challenge and Half Note Records and has performed with a strong sampling of today’s top jazz artists, most notably Elvin Jones and Christian McBride. She has also headlined at prestigious jazz venues such as The Blue Note and Lincoln Center in New York, and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC....

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Date: October 13, 2017

Time: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Venue: Fernandina Beach Golf Club

Address: 2800 Bill Melton Road
Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034

Cost: $45 General Admission; $65 VIP Seating; $150 High Note Club w/Amenities

Contact: Les DeMerle | info@ameliaislandjazzfestival | (904) 504-4772

Superb Jazz vocalist Roseanna Vitro presents a tribute to the great Ella Fitzgerald. Plus Art Of The Trio with Les DeMerle, drums, Mike Levine, keyboards, and Dennis Marks, bass. Vitro earned a 2012 Grammy Nomination for "Best Vocal Jazz Album," The Music of Randy Newman, on Motéma Music. An inventive singer, her strengths include rhythmic acuity and free-spirited spontaneity, often heard in her improvisations, using both scat syllables and lyrics. Additionally, she has released twelve critically acclaimed recordings for Motéma, Telarc, Concord, Challenge and Half Note Records and has performed with a strong sampling of today’s top jazz artists, most notably Elvin Jones and Christian McBride. She has also headlined at prestigious jazz venues such as The Blue Note and Lincoln Center in New York, and The Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

Now in its 14th year, the AIJF will take place over 8 days at various locations in Fernandina Beach, FL from October 8-15, 2017. For more information and to purchase tickets online, please visit the Festival website: WWW.AMELIAISLANDJAZZFESTIVAL.COM or contact the Festival Hotline at (904) 504-4772 or email address: [email protected]

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