Healdsburg Jazz Festival: Marcus Shelby Orchestra and the Healdsburg Jazz Festival Freedom Jazz Choir at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Raven Performing Arts Theater

Get your tickets now and join us for the 15th Anniversary of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, May 31 – June 9. Click Ticket Price (above) to order or to learn more about this specific event.

Click Healdsburg Jazz Festival (above) to see a complete listing of events including a two day all-star Tribute to Charlie Haden including the Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley, Quartet West with Ravi Coltrane plus Bill Frisell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, Geri Allen, Chris Potter. Other concerts include an exclusive engagement of the Charles Lloyd–Jason Moran duo, Sweet Honey in the Rock®, The Fred Hersch Trio, plus groups led by Azar Lawrence, Marcus Shelby, Will Bernard, Sylvia Cuenca and John Heard."...

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Get your tickets now and join us for the 15th Anniversary of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, May 31 – June 9. Click Ticket Price (above) to order or to learn more about this specific event.

Click Healdsburg Jazz Festival (above) to see a complete listing of events including a two day all-star Tribute to Charlie Haden including the Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla Bley, Quartet West with Ravi Coltrane plus Bill Frisell, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, Geri Allen, Chris Potter. Other concerts include an exclusive engagement of the Charles Lloyd–Jason Moran duo, Sweet Honey in the Rock®, The Fred Hersch Trio, plus groups led by Azar Lawrence, Marcus Shelby, Will Bernard, Sylvia Cuenca and John Heard."

San Francisco bassist Marcus Shelby recently recorded a much-celebrated jazz suite called “Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King,” featuring a 15-piece jazz orchestra. For a series of performances, including one at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Shelby's opus serves as the vehicle for a James Irvine Foundation grant that supports the creation of a choir whose singers come from the diverse communities of Sonoma County.

The Healdsburg Jazz Festival Freedom Jazz Choir’s purpose is to engage the public in the arts using music as a unifying force. Close to 150 people showed up for the first rehearsal of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival Freedom Jazz Choir. The singers, under the tutelage of Shelby and Adam Ivey, director of Santa Rosa’s Joyous Noise Ensemble, will sing a variety of songs backed by the orchestra. The dynamic Ms. Faye Carol will be lead vocalist. The shows will feature original compositions from “Soul of the Movement,” plus spirituals and freedom songs that Shelby has arranged for the chorus.

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