About this Event
Illuminate Live, San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, in association with Value Culture, The Trombone Shorty Foundation, and SF Jazz, present an afternoon concert celebrating up and coming musicians from New Orleans and Oakland.
Music from 12pm-3pm, Free, All Ages.
Following the path that led to Trombone Shorty’s success, the Trombone Shorty Academy at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation educates the next generation of musically gifted students through a performance curriculum curated by Trombone Shorty and the foundation’s Executive Director, Bill Taylor, and based on Danny Barker’s Fairview Baptist Church music program. Barker produced New Orleans legends Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Herlin Riley, Lucien Barbarin, and members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Students are fully immersed in the history and key influencers of New Orleans music, while preparing for ensemble performances under the instruction of accomplished musicians, including members of Rebirth Brass Band, The Soul Rebels, and New Breed Brass Band, culminating in the organization’s annual fundraising event, Shorty Fest. Come support the next generation!
The Oakland Eastside All-Star Ensemble (OEASE) is a big band co-founded in East Oakland during the summer of 2012 by Ms. Helena Moss- Jack. Hailing from OUSD and charter middle schools and high schools, OEASE is comprised of Oakland’s new wave of community leaders young musician-scholars.
The Ensemble is a ten-month, pre-college and pre-professional instrumental music and leadership fellowship program, an advanced training that offers a high performing group of responsible students the time and individual attention necessary to gain an unparalleled standard of scholarship, musical ability, discipline and respect for their craft. The OEASE Fellowship program offerings aim to advance comprehensive learning employed to steer Oakland and East Bay students ages 12 – 19 toward community leadership, gainful employment, entrepreneurship, college matriculation and graduation. We especially hope to raise new educators, artists, and media change-makers.
Illuminate the Arts rallies large groups of people together to create impossible works of public art that, through awe, free humanity's better nature.
The Trombone Shorty Foundation’s mission is to inspire the next generation of talented opportunity youth through music education, instruction, mentorship, and performance. By honoring the New Orleans tradition of “playing it forward” from the earliest jazz legends onward, the foundation seeks to preserve and perpetuate the musical heritage of a city where music is everything. Experienced and professional teachers, tutors, and mentors support every student in the pursuit of a well-rounded understanding of New Orleans’ musical traditions, experience in music performance, reading, writing, and now, even business, and the social and academic skills they need to make noise wherever they go – in music and in life.
Value Culture's mission is to produce and support artistic, educational, charitable, and spiritual events to inspire individuals to give back to their communities. Value Culture removes barriers to arts, culture, and philanthropy.
SFJAZZ works to develop the audience for jazz in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. SFJAZZ celebrates jazz as a living art form, built on a constantly evolving tradition.
The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department currently manages more than 220 parks, playgrounds and open spaces throughout San Francisco, including two outside city limits—Sharp Park in Pacifica and Camp Mather in the High Sierras.
The San Francisco Parks Alliance believes that everyone deserves access to safe and welcoming public spaces, regardless of where they live in San Francisco. Beyond that, we’re people who love our parks. We’ve seen how community-focused public spaces can transform neighborhoods, and we’re passionate about bringing a diversity of resources and partners together to support the city.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Spreckels Temple of Music Bandshell, Music Concourse, 75 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, United States
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