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Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Education Program Travels to Brookings, Watertown and All State Band in Aberdeen
05.01.2012
Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues touring jazz education program, the Jazz Diversity Project, will visit Brookings, Watertown, and Aberdeen and will perform at South Dakota All State Band in Aberdeen this week.
The Spring touring schedule is as follows:
Wednesday, May 2
• Clark Middle School 2:30pm
• The Pheasant in Brookings at 7pm
Thursday, May 3
• Castlewood School at 10:30am
• Mickelson Middle School at 2pm
• Goss Opera House in Watertown at 7:30pm
Friday, May 4
• Mellette/Northwestern Area Middle School at 11:30am
• Northern State University – All State Jazz Band at 2:30pm
• NSU Johnson Fine Arts Center Theater – Jazz Diversity Project Jam Session featuring clinicians from All State Jazz Band at 7:45pm
The Jazz Diversity Project is a 50-minute, multi-media presentation combining jazz music education with American history, the Humanities and social sciences. The educational presentation begins with the birth of jazz in New Orleans during the early 1900’s, and follows the art form through the century to the Civil Rights movement and into the role of music in American culture today.
The Jazz Diversity Project is performed by South Dakota musicians the Dakota Jazz Collective: Jeremy Hegg (piano), Jim Speirs (trumpet), Andrew Reinartz (bass), Jim McKinney (drums), and Nate Jorgensen (saxophone).
"I am extremely excited to have the Jazz Diversity Project on campus for the 2012 South Dakota All State Jazz Band Festival,” said Ryan Stahle, Director of South Dakota All State Jazz Band. “This group has such an interactive and exciting way of bringing the history of jazz to young students. Students will learn about this art form by not only seeing images and hearing about the history, they also will also listen to these "world-class" musicians perform this music in a timeline fashion. It’s a great way to learn valuable information about an art form that we are all trying to perform and perfect. I really feel this will compliment and enhance our curriculum of the festival."
About South Dakota All-State Jazz Band.
South Dakota All-State Jazz Band has been going strong since 1989. The organization was formed to give students from South Dakota the opportunity to play with other jazz musicians from across the state of South Dakota. This year’s guest clinicians are: Philadelphia born trumpeter, trombonist and composer Michael Philip Mossman, Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Minnesota Dean Sorenson, Minnesota-based drummer/percussionist/educator David Stanoch, and Professor of High Brass at Northern State University Dr. Grant Manhart.
About the Jazz Diversity Project.
Since September 2006, the Jazz Diversity Project has toured over 50 communities throughout South Dakota, impacting over 20,000 students.
The Jazz Diversity Project is funded in-part by the National Endowment for the Arts, First PREMIER Bank/PREMIER Bankcard, the Larson Foundation, South Dakota Humanities Council, Sanford Children’s, and the South Dakota Arts Council.
For more information about Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues educational outreach programs, please visit:sfjb.org/education.
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