17th Annual Jazz on Fourth Street Festival - Berkeley High School Jazz Combos & Ensembles at Fourth Street

This free outdoor music festival, benefiting the jazz programs at Berkeley High School, will feature famed radio host and pianist Dick Conte’s Quartet with Steve Webber on bass, Steve Heckman on saxophones and Bill Moody on drums; the classic blues sounds from three-time Grammy Nominated vocalist Lady Bianca; and the classic and contemporary Cuban and Salsa repertoire from Rumbaché. The Berkeley High School Combo A, awarded DownBeat Magazine's 2011 Best High School Combo Award, and the full 22-piece Berkeley High School Ensemble, directed by Sarah Cline.


During the Festival, a raffle will be held to benefit the Berkeley High School Jazz programs. The street and the plaza will be filled with Fourth Street merchants offering interactive displays, children’s activities and unique food and beverages including beer and sake gardens. All proceeds from beer and sake sales go directly to Berkeley High Jazz programs....

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This free outdoor music festival, benefiting the jazz programs at Berkeley High School, will feature famed radio host and pianist Dick Conte’s Quartet with Steve Webber on bass, Steve Heckman on saxophones and Bill Moody on drums; the classic blues sounds from three-time Grammy Nominated vocalist Lady Bianca; and the classic and contemporary Cuban and Salsa repertoire from Rumbaché. The Berkeley High School Combo A, awarded DownBeat Magazine's 2011 Best High School Combo Award, and the full 22-piece Berkeley High School Ensemble, directed by Sarah Cline.


During the Festival, a raffle will be held to benefit the Berkeley High School Jazz programs. The street and the plaza will be filled with Fourth Street merchants offering interactive displays, children’s activities and unique food and beverages including beer and sake gardens. All proceeds from beer and sake sales go directly to Berkeley High Jazz programs.

The Berkeley High Jazz Program once home to Ambrose Akinmusire, Joshua Redman, Dave Ellis, Peter Apfelbaum, Michael Wolff, Benny Green and many others, is a national model of instrumental education.

The proceeds from this event will help the school continue the jazz programs and provide much needed funds for the ensemble to travel to many upcoming national and international jazz festival competitions including their upcoming tour to Havana, Cuba.

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