All that Jazz ... and More!

ALL THAT JAZZ and MORE!

With Special Guest Performer:  Geoff Vidal

 The Center for Performing Arts proudly presents All That Jazz and More! on Thursday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the New Theater at Wakefield Memorial High School.  The award winning Wakefield High School Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Mr. Thomas Bankert, along with the Wakefield High School Voices of Steel a cappella group, under the direction of Ms. Ana Morel, will perform at this one of a kind event.

 The CPA will be honored this evening to shine the spotlight on the celebrated jazz stylings of saxophonist and composer, Mr. Geoff Vidal.

Mr. Vidal grew up in Falmouth, attended UMass Amherst where he studied in the prestigious sax studio of Lynn Klock and was a member of the UMASS Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Grammy award-winning composer, arranger and master musician, Jeff Holmes.  Mr. Vidal now resides in New York and has united himself with some of the city’s brightest and talented young jazz musicians playing at such venues as Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club, Rose Theater (Jazz @Lincoln Center), Mercury Lounge, The Bitter End, and many others.  Since his arrival in New York, he has become a sought after tenor-of-choice for a host of notable bandleaders. In addition to leading his own group, The GV5, he performs and records regularly with the Fat Cat Big Band, Brother Joscephus & the Love Revival Revolution Orchestra, The Pittsburgh Collective, as well as others, and contributes to many other sideman projects with his musical brethren.  The CPA is very excited to introduce Mr. Vidal to the Wakefield community.

 The ticket price for this event is $15.00 and tickets  can be purchased at Smith Drug, The Wakefield Item, or by calling 781-246-3008.

For more information on this event as well as all upcoming news andevents visit us at:  www.wakefieldarts.org