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The Boxed Show Series is BACK! Join us this spring for a sampling of all that jazz has to offer! This series will be held in our Grand Ballroom with socially distanced bistro table seating. Audiences will be limited to follow state guidelines.
Mar, April, May 2021
DOORS at 6:30PM
PERFORMANCES BEGIN at 7:00PM
BUY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO ALL FOUR!
Table for Two Subscriptions: $200
receive two glasses of house wine along with your table for two at each concert
Table for One Subscription: $100
receive a glass of house wine along with your table for two at each concert
Individual concert ticket sales will open up in January!
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About the acts:
March 19, 2021
Sherry Alves and George Colligan
Sherry Alves has been singing and teaching in the Willamette Valley for almost ten years. With an expertise in singing American popular music from ragtime and swing to contemporary pop and country, her talents are in demand throughout the Western United States. She is on the faculty at PSU, where she puts her experience and her Masters of Music in contemporary music to use as a private instructor, lecturer and ensemble director. She has written for and performed with the likes of New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, jazz diva Liz Wright, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Lynn Anderson, Sonny Turner of the Platters, Emmy-winning songsmith Dave Frishberg, Grammy-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano and Drift Away author Mentor Williams.
George Colligan is a Portland based pianist, organist,drummer, trumpeter, teacher, and bandleader, who is one of the most original and compelling jazz artists of his generation. An award-winning composer (Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation grant recipient, RACC Grant Winner) and player (winner, Jazzconnect.com Jazz Competition, DownBeat Critics Poll Winner), Colligan is highly in demand as a sideman, having worked with players like Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Cassandra Wilson, Ravi Coltrane, and many others, both on the bandstand and in recording sessions (appearing on over 150 CDs).
(NEW DATE) March 26, 2021
The Noah Simpson Quartet
Energetic, attentive, and dynamic define Noah Simpson’s trumpet playing.
Rooted in the jazz tradition and heavily influenced by modern Black American music, Simpson takes a modern approach to the trumpet. Noah has toured and performed with such artists as Bernard Purdie, George Benson, George Colligan,and Ron Artis II, all while performing regularly with his own quartet across the west coast.
April 23, 2021
Carissa Burkett & Friends
Carissa Burkett is a classically trained vocalist turned jazz singer. The daughter of two musicians, she was surrounded by music her entire life, singing, playing piano, clarinet and handbells. Car-rides and dinner tables were always filled with singing in four part-harmony with her family. Burkett pursued a career in fine art instead of music, but continues to sing in her spare time. All about community, Burkett will be inviting musician friends to join her for an evening of fun jamming to jazz standards.
May 21, 2021
The Jason Okamoto Duo
Guitarists Jason Okamoto and Mike Burdette bring together their love of Brazilian, Bossa Nova, and Parisian jazz manouche in this exciting duo. The combination of Spanish nylon-string guitar and French gypsy Jazz guitar promise an evening of warm rhythms, beautiful melodies, and lush tone. Veterans of several of the area’s most prominent Brazilian and Swing Bands-Rio Con Brio, Stumptown Swing, Django’s Tigers-Jason and Mike let the music take center stage and propel the evening.
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As 2020 has taught us, the best laid plans can change at a moment’s notice. If COVID restrictions do not allow us to have these concerts, we will do everything we can to reschedule and if that isn’t possible, we will refund subscriptions…but we REALLY hope we can have these lovely concerts and we know you do too!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E Sheridan St, Newberg, United States
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