April 2020
Friday Nights @ JAC f/ Keith Jordan (Postponed Indefinitely)
Keith Jordan was born in Brooklyn and raised in Jamaica, Queens. He earned his BA in Music Education from Queens College, where he studied with Bobby Broom, Rodney Jones and Ron Jackson. While at the College College, he learned jazz…
Find out more »Friday Nights @ JAC f/ Ashley Keiko (Postponed Indefinitely)
A performer, educator, advocator, entrepreneur, and founder and president of Keiko Studios, Ashley Keiko is an up-and-coming multi-talent who has studied classical piano for fifteen years and the alto saxophone for twelve years. Ashley received her BA in Jazz Performance…
Find out more »May 2020
Friday Nights @ JAC f/ Catherine Chen and Ajna Dance Company
Catherine Chen is a poet and performer who is queer, brown, disabled, and femme. Catherine performs as a cast member of The Poetry Brothel, a literary cabaret production by The Poetry Society of New York. Ajna Dance is a New…
Find out more »Friday Nights @ JAC f/ Bria Monét
Composer and multi-instrumentalist Bria Monét creates for the healing properties of song. At 25 years old, this soulful singer is influenced by the jazz and rhythm & blues that her father raised her on and the classical chamber music she…
Find out more »June 2020
Omar Edwards’ Workshop: Dancin’ the Music
Students are inspired to take tap dancing to a new level using their feet as percussive instruments. Omar Edwards, accompanied by his multi-instrumentalist bandmate Shaine Wilson (on bass, drums, keyboards and vocals), will lead a jam-packed workshop where the students…
Find out more »Omar Edwards & Company: Vaude / A Toast to the Boogie
It’s about the sound! It’s about the dance! It’s about the music! Legendary tap dancer and musician Omar Edwards returns to JCAL with his vaudeville and cabaret-inspired VAUDE / A Toast to the Boogie for a three-performance series. Edwards and…
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