Denton Arts & Jazz Festival~ FREE 3 Day Event From April 29th- May 1st

Posted by My Dallas Mommy on Tuesday, April 26th, 2016 at 2:30 PM
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Starting Friday, The Denton Arts and Jazz Festival is a FREE three-day celebration of the arts in a community known for embracing and nurturing music, dance, choral, drama and the visual arts. Highlights include seven performance stages with jazz, blues and cross-cultural music. A juried art show features works from 175 juried artists and crafters. The 12 and under set can mold, draw, sculpt and create at the Children’s Art Tent and make music in the Percussion Tent. Treat yourself to delicious offerings at one of six food courts and don’t miss the games and activities for the young and young at heart.

Hours and headliners:

UNT One O’Clock Lab Band
Friday, April 29, 2016
7:00 pm – Jazz Stage

For 68 years the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band has been the premier ensemble of the Jazz Studies Division at the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton, Texas. Since the 1970’s, the band’s albums have received six Grammy nominations with a multitude of great composers, performers, and educators all throughout the music world. Over 60 recordings and a tradition that just keeps swingin’, the One O’Clock Lab Band is under the direction of Jay Saunders.

Patrice Rushen & Friends
Friday, April 29, 2016
9:00 pm – Jazz Stage

Multi-Grammy nominated artist, Patrice Rushen, is fashioning her career after the legacy of her long-time friend and mentor, Quincy Jones. Composer…Producer…International Recording Artist… Rushen has definitely earned the respect she has been awarded by her peers in the music industry. Rushen has amassed an impressive list of “firsts”. She was the first woman to serve as Musical Director for the 46th, 47th & 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the first woman in 43 years to serve as Head Composer/Musical Director for television’s high honor, the Emmy Awardsand the first woman Musical Director of the NAACP Image Awards and HBO’s Comic Relief. A classically trained pianist, Rushen has spent a lifetime honing the skills that maker her one of the music industry’s most versatile and sought after artists. ASCAP honored here publishing company for the song “Men in Black”, as the 1997 Most Performed Song from a Motion Picture.

Curently, her career focus is composing for films, television and orchestras. Some of the many artists she has recorded with include: Carlos Santana, Quincy Jones, Stanley Clarke, The Temptations, Al Jarreau, Sheena Easton, Lee Ritenour, Eddie Murphy, Prince, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, & Ramsey Lewis. Don’t miss this performance with Patrice Rushen & Friends.

The Flatlanders
Saturday, April 30, 2016
9:00 pm – Jazz Stage

The Flatlanders are an American Country band from Lubbock, Texas, founded in 1972 by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, each contributing vocals, guitar and songwriting skills. Ely’s, Hancock’s, and Gilmore’s individual trajectories, influenced by Beat writers, Elvis and Eastern mysticism, merged in the weirdly creative crucible of Lubbock, Texas. When the individual members found success in their solo careers, interest in The Flatlanders was rekindled with the band reuniting several times since. In 1972, the band travelled to Tommy Allsup’s Odessa, Texas studio at the urging of a local radio DJ. The 14 songs recorded on reel-to-reel tape arguably marked the birth of alternative country music. In celebration of their 40th anniversary together, the esteemed founding fathers of Americana released a collection of these recordings as The Odessa Tapes via New West Records. Though lost for nearly four decades, The Odessa Tapes’ pristine recordings capture without any polish the special blend of country, folk, roots and cosmic The Flatlanders pioneered. These talented musicians continue to perform and write their special kind of music for albums, movies and television.

Brave Combo
Sunday, May 1, 2016
7:00 pm – Jazz Stage

Denton’s Quakertown Park and Facilities
321 East McKinney (Corner of McKinney and Bell)
Denton, Texas 76201

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