As events begin to pick up again, downtown Cowtown will be booming with the sounds of New Orleans. The Roots of Music series, at Downtown Cowtown the Isis at the Fort Worth Stockyards, has an upcoming program highlighting Black music, packed with jazz, blues, R&B and hip-hop.
Originally scheduled for a two-night premiere on May 7 and 8, the show has been pushed back to June. It will be one of the premiere live music performances debuting at the theater, which airs Western movies in the day and transforms into a live event stage at night.
Adonis Rose, a Grammy-winning jazz drummer and co-founder of a division of the Funky Town Music Festival called FunkyTown Agency, is hosting and performing at The Roots of Music series. If you can’t make it to the debut shows, you re in luck; there’ll be a total of 12 shows, one each month.
OffBeat Magazine
Adonis Rose as its New Orleans Music and Culture Curator.
Rose is a Grammy-winning drummer, composer, and the artistic director of the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. Rose will work closely with the festival’s management team to increase creative offerings from the city of New Orleans and create cultural exchange opportunities for Swiss musicians in New Orleans at the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra’s 500-seat venue, the New Orleans Jazz Market.
Glen David Andrews performs at JazzAscona.
JazzAscona was founded in 1975 by Swiss trumpeter Hannes Anrig and was held in Lugano, Switzerland, before relocating to Ascona in 1985. A new artistic director, Karl Heinz Ern served from 1997 through 2003. Hotelier and traditional jazz aficionado Nicolas Gilliet served as JazzAscona’s artistic director from 2003 through 2019. The festival has always New Orleans-themed and attracts over 45,000 visitors, features more than 200 concerts with over 300 musicians, and hosts numerous jam