Santa Rosa ยป Calendar ยป Marcus Shelby Big Band With Tiffany Austin, The Freedom Jazz Choir...
Marcus Shelby Big Band With Tiffany Austin, The Freedom Jazz Choir, James Newton, And Ruth Naomi Floyd at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Raven Performing Arts Theater
Where
Raven Performing Arts Theater
Healdsburg Jazz Festival
115 North St.
Healdsburg, CA
Map
(707) 433-6335
When
Sun, June 10, 2018
12:00 pm
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Musicians
About
In the early 2000s, Marcus Shelby, already an esteemed bassist and bandleader in San Francisco, got a notion use music to highlight periods of struggle and uplift in American history. In 2013 with help from a grant from the James Irvine Foundation, Marcus and Healdsburg Jazz christened the Healdsburg Jazz Freedom Jazz Choir under the guidance of himself and soul-jazz singer Tiffany Austin as co-director. The Raven Theater will be the venue for โLift Every Voice and Singโ featuring the Marcus Shelby Big Band, the 100-piece Freedom Jazz Choir, and special guests singer Ruth Naomi Floyd and flautist James Newton.