Jazz At The Lake Festival

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT A message regarding this year's festival from Eric Allison and Cheryl Fisher - plus a special something from our hearts to yours.

Many of you may recognize this talented young lady as the trombonist from Wild Rose Dixie! This is one of her submissions to the Swisstbone virtual trombone competition! It is her interpretation of the Sarabande and Gigue in Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 performed at the Gaetz United Church. Although not strictly jazz, we love supporting the talented young musicians in our community! She is competing against bass trombonists around the world under 20 years old for her performanc...e of these Bach movements as well as competing with every trombonist for the Audience Choice award. This means she needs as many likes on the original Facebook post and YouTube video as she can, so she needs your help. Like and share this video to help her out, and please check out her second video as well on the swisstbone page! Thank you for supporting this rising star !

As today would have been the closing day for Festival 2020, we wanted to share some memories from last year! We appreciate all our patrons, volunteers, sponsors and artists who continue to support us year after year! We look forward to making music together again in 2021!

Thriving in Crisis: The Chick Webb Orchestra and the Great Depression We are so lucky to have Christi Jay Wells speak on this subject. Their PhD dissertation on... Chick Webb won a major award: The Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award from the Society for American Music. About our guest speaker, Christi Jay Wells Ph.D. - Christopher J. Christi Jay Wells is assistant professor of musicology at Arizona State University’s School of Music and affiliate faculty with ASU’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy. They received their doctorate in 2014 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where their dissertation on drummer/bandleader Chick Webb and swing music in Harlem during the Great Depression received the Society for American Music’s Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award and UNC’s Glen Haydon Award for an Outstanding Dissertation in Musicology. They have also received Videmus’s Edgar A. Toppin Award for Outstanding Research in African American Music, a Morroe Berger/Benny Carter Jazz Research Fellowship from the Institute of Jazz Studies, and the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music. A social jazz and blues dancer for over a decade, Wells regularly places highly in blues dance competitions and is a frequent lecturer and clinician at national and international events, having recently taught blues and jazz dance classes and lectured on dance history in Seoul, South Korea and Hong Kong. Professor Wells is currently writing a book about the history of jazz music’s ever-shifting relationship with popular dance (under contract with Oxford University Press) and has published articles in the journals Women & Music, Jazz & Culture, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Daedalus as well as providing multiple chapters on jazz dance history topics for volumes in the Oxford Handbook series. If you enjoy this presentation, please consider making a donation to the Frankie Manning Foundation: https://frankiemanningfoundation.org/