Sunflower Music Festival

Jazz Night Celebrates Juneteenth

A TRIBUTE TO BLACK FEMALE COMPOSERS WITH CITY LIGHT JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Sponsored by Liz Stratton

Featuring David Basse, vocals, with the City Light Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Angela Ward, piano.

This year’s show takes listeners on a musical journey that includes compositions by trombonist, Melba Liston, as well as singers Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. Many Black women composers went unnoticed in their lifetime because of a male dominated and segregated world.

Jazz Night again features vocalists, Angela Hagenbach and David Basse, performing music written by orchestra members and compositions that are by now a part of the fabric of the Great American Songbook.

City Light Jazz Orchestra

Angela Ward, piano