New York’s Brandee Younger and Rochester’s Mikaela Davis will put together a set featuring their harp playing. Check out for the latest news on bix 7 road race and memorial jazz festival along. Vibraphone players Joel Ross, Warren Wolf and Sasha Berliner join together for a set showcasing their instrument. and the Bix Beiderbecke Weekend (Dixieland jazz) in late July. On Sunday, the Newport audience will get big doses of some lesser-heard sounds. Special events in the Quad Cities include the Quad Cities Jazz Festival in mid-May. Robert Glasper will also feature a DJ, Jahi Sundance, in one of his three sets, which all should prove to be forward-thinking. Festival Artistic Director Christian McBride brings his newish band featuring DJ Logic, as well as a jam session featuring jamband-stalwarts Joe Russo and Marco Benevento, and fusion guitarist John Scofield. Newer sounds will command the stage for much of the weekend however. David Ostwald will bring his weekly Birdland gig to the Newport stage paying respects to jazz pioneers like Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton. Entertainment: 2 stages - National, Regional, Local. Address: 7077 Elmore Avenue, Davenport, IA 52807.

The parties will feature a variety of live music, food, drinks and fun. Traditional jazz festival perpetuates the memory of Bix Beiderbecke through preservation of traditional jazz. Bix Block Parties are located throughout east, central and west downtown Davenport locations spanning from the Rock Island Arsenal Bridge on the east to the Centennial Bridge on the west. George Weinįestivals past will get tributes, with Grammy-winning singer Ledisi playing a set of festival alum Nina Simone and longtime alum of the Folk Festival, Mavis Staples, to play a set of… Mavis Staples. The locally focused Bix Block Parties event replaces the traditional Street Fest. I think when you get to know her, you will put her in the ranks with Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone and a few other magnificent artists we’ve had the privilege of presenting. The 2021 Bix Fest will present what we hope youll agree is one of our best. But more importantly, Andra Day is one of the finest singers I’ve heard in years. August 5-7 50th Annual BIX BEIDERBECKE MEMORIAL JAZZ FESTIVAL (Davenport, IA). greatly impressed me in her Academy Award nominated performance in the United States vs. Festival impresario, George Wein, praised sang her praises in one of his famous email transmissions: Austin Thai-infused funk trio Khruangbin close out Friday, New Orleans stage party Trombone Shorty finishes off Saturday and singer and Academy-Award nominated actress Andra Day closes out the weekend. held in conjunction with Davenports annual Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival.

Just skimming across the top the headliners alone set-up the diversity that peppers the lineup below. American running legend Bill Rodgers has run the Bix 7 35 years in a row and.

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