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| Vermont Jazz Center Presents: Val Jeanty & the Berklee Institute of Jazz & Gender Justice High school students, college students, and LGBTQ folks attend this event free of charge. Student groups welcome. Val Jeanty (Val-Inc) leads two ensembles from Berklee in a public, day-long festival of workshops and masterclasses culminating in an evening performance. Various local high school and college student groups will perform. The afternoon events will happen in-person only, the evening concert will be both livestreamed and in-person. Representatives from "Outright Vermont" will be tabling during the afternoon activities. Jeanty is an Ensemble Director at the Berklee Institute of Jazz & Gender Justice "Berklee Institute of Jazz & Gender Justice": ] Also known as Val-Inc, she is an Haitian afrofuturist, composer, turntablist, and professor at Berklee. She is a pioneer of the electronic music subgenre Afro- Electronica (also called "Electro-Vodou") incorporating Haitian Vodou rhythms with electronic instruments. This event marks our fourth collaboration of artists connected to the Berklee Institute of Jazz & Gender Justice: in May 2020 we presented the Institute's founder Terri Lynne Carrington and her band Social Science; Linda May Han Oh, an Ensemble Director at the Institute, taught at our 2020 Summer Workshop; and we presented Kris Davis, the Institute's Associate Program Director of Creative Development, and Hidemi Akaiwa and Camila Cortina (both students at the Institute), in our 2021 Solo Jazz Piano Festival. Recordings of these events can be found in our "Facebook videos" HISTORY Beginning in 2013 the Vermont Jazz Center has presented emerging artists as part of its featured programming. In 2017 the idea of featuring younger, emerging professional performers evolved into an annual November festival. The festival now highlights two components 1) local high school and college groups who will perform during a Friday evening jazz walk (Due to Covid safety precautions, this year's Friday portion of the event has been cancelled) in Brattleboro and 2) headliner artists who will perform and offer workshops and coaching assistance to students in an all-day Saturday event. Special thanks to "Out in the Open" for helping spread the word about this event! write your comments about the article :: © 2021 Jazz News :: home page |