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Ridgeway Arts Presents Vocalist Tammy Scheffer at The Red Poppy Art House
Ridgeway Arts Presents is proud to have vocalist and composer Tammy Scheffer perform at the Red Art Poppy House in San Francisco. She has been a creative voice in NYC’s vibrant jazz scene for almost a decade. Most recently she released a new EP with Morning Bound, an adventurous jazz-rock trio that was hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “innovative, provocative and alluring”. She is also the leader of the Tammy Scheffer Sextet, whose album “Wake Up, Fall Asleep” was…
Find out more »Ridgeway Presents Jeff Denson Workshop at Napa Valley High School
Bassist/composer Jeff Denson presents a lecture at the Napa Valley High School about being a 21st Century musician, jazz education, recording and the diverse skill sets needed to be a musician in today’s world.
Find out more »Jeff Denson Quartet CD Release Celebration at Silo’s
Jeff Denson with the Napa Valley High School Big Band at 8 p.m. at Silo’s in Napa. The student ensemble will perform two of Denson’s pieces arranged for big-band, followed by Denson and his band performing music from his new CD Concentric Circles.
Find out more »Joel Harrison’s Spirit House w/ Brian Blade – Art Boutiki
Presented in Conjunction with Ridgeway Arts Washington D.C.-born guitarist and composer Joel Harrison doesn’t sit still. A fearless, exploratory musician who cut his teeth on the San Francisco improv scene, the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient decamped for New York in the early 2000s with a searching intellect that has long embraced styles and sonorities beyond standard jazz precepts. Working largely as a leader, he has recorded over a dozen sessions in settings from duo to big band, employing classical and…
Find out more »Joel Harrison’s Spirit House feat. Brian Blade – Dizzy’s
Presented in Conjunction with Ridgeway Arts Washington D.C.-born guitarist and composer Joel Harrison doesn’t sit still. A fearless, exploratory musician who cut his teeth on the San Francisco improv scene, the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient decamped for New York in the early 2000s with a searching intellect that has long embraced styles and sonorities beyond standard jazz precepts. Working largely as a leader, he has recorded over a dozen sessions in settings from duo to big band, employing classical and…
Find out more »Ridgeway Arts Presents & The Jazz Room – Present Pianist Kari Ikonen at The Jazz Room
Ridgeway Arts Presents and The Jazz Room are proud to have Finnish keyboardist Kari Ikonen perform new and original music at The Village Theater and Art Gallery. Join Kari and local young musicians who worked with Kari present their work during the first portion of the performance Kari’s performance. The Ridgeway Arts Presents program has both a national and local focus, fully integrated with its educational outreach programs. The programs focuses on presenting high profile artists in the Bay Area…
Find out more »Ridgeway Arts Presents Pianist Kari Ikonen Workshop
Ridgeway Arts Presents is proud to have pianist Kari Ikonen work directly with local young musicians and present their work during the first portion of the performance Kari's performance at the Art Boutiki at 7:30pm. The Ridgeway Arts Presents program has both a national and local focus, fully integrated with its educational outreach programs. The programs focuses on presenting high profile artists in the Bay Area as well as providing young musicians access to educational opportunists with these artists. About…
Find out more »Ridgeway Arts Presents Pianist Kari Ikonen at the Art Boutiki
Ridgeway Arts Presents is proud to have Finnish keyboardist Kari Ikonen perform new and original music at the Art Boutiki. Join Kari and local young musicians who worked with Kari present their work during the first portion of the performance Kari's performance. The Ridgeway Arts Presents program has both a national and local focus, fully integrated with its educational outreach programs. The programs focuses on presenting high profile artists in the Bay Area as well as providing young musicians access…
Find out more »Ridgeway Arts Presents Pianist Kari Ikonen Workshop at Napa Valley High School
As part of the Ridgeway Presents program, the Napa Valley High School Jazz Combo will have the opportunity to work directly with Kari and present their work during the first portion of Kari’s performance at Silo’s that evening. The Ridgeway Arts Presents program has both a national and local focus, fully integrated with its educational outreach programs. The programs focuses on presenting high profile artists in the Bay Area as well as providing young musicians access to educational opportunists with…
Find out more »Ridgeway Arts Presents Pianist Kari Ikonen at Silo’s Napa
Ridgeway Arts Presents is proud to have Finnish keyboardist Kari Ikonen perform at Silo's in Napa. After having studied piano with Matti Laukkanen for four years (1989-1993) at Jyväskylä Institute of Music, Kari Ikonen continued his studies 1994 in piano and later in composition at the Jazz Music Department of Sibelius Academy, with such teachers as Jarmo Savolainen, Jukkis Uotila, Anders Jormin, Maria Schneider, Mike Gibbs, Sonny Heinilä and Olli Kortekangas. He also spent a semester of 1996 in Rotterdam…
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