BRATTLEBORO — The Vermont Jazz Center is bringing talented young jazz musicians to its stage for its annual Emerging Artist Festival on Nov. 7 and 8.
The festival will feature a performance by three-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Ulysses Owens Jr., and the Generation Y Ensemble.
The Generation Y Ensemble features Anthony Hervey on trumpet, Langston Hughes II on saxophones & flute, Liya Grigoryan on piano, Guillermo Lopez on bass, and Ulysses Owens Jr. on drums.
The venue 118 Elliot will also play host Friday to student jazz ensembles from various local schools and colleges starting at 5 p.m.
Saturday, Nov 8, begins at 11 a.m., with student performances ending at 4 p.m. and includes a free clinic with Owens and his band at 4 p.m. Owens and his Generation Y Ensemble will begin their ticketed performance at 7:30 p.m. at VJC.
The Emerging Artist Festival in Brattleboro is an annual two-day event, held the first weekend of November, showcasing talented young jazz musicians through performances, mentorship, and educational clinics, with featured headliners often joining student ensembles for concerts and workshops.
The focus of the festival is celebrating and mentoring high school and college-level jazz performers.
Sarah Ozga, communications and operations manager for the Vermont Jazz Center, said there are students coming from eight different schools as well as some unaffiliated students, including 14 from Brattleboro Union High School, and others from Northfield-Mount Hermon in Gill, Mass., Amherst, Mass., High School, and Vermont Academy in Saxtons River.
The festival is sponsored by Marcy Hermansader in honor of her late husband, Jonathan Flaccus, who operated the Unique Antique in Putney for 38 years and was an active supporter of the Vermont Jazz Center.
Friday night and Saturday daytime events and concerts are all free and open to the public.
For more information or tickets, visit vtjazz.org.
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