41st Annual Cathedral Park Jazz Festival Will Be Back in the Park
Complete Three-Day Schedule of Performers
Portland, Oregon, June 7, 2021 – The free Cathedral Park Jazz Festival [CPJF] featuring local jazz, blues, soul and Latin artists will be back in Cathedral Park under the historic St Johns Bridge in North Portland for the 41st year of the festival on Friday, July 16, Saturday, July 17 and Sunday, July 18, 2021.
Oregonians Credit Union is this year’s presenting sponsor, and the organizer is the Jazz Society of Oregon (JSO).
Friday, July 16 is dedicated to blues performers, starting at 4:30 p.m., closing at 10 p.m. On Saturday, July 17, Portland State University’s Collective Combo kicks off the program at 1p.m. and Soul singer/songwriter Jarrod Lawson closes the evening, which ends 9:45 p.m. Sunday, July 18, begins with members of the Portland Youth Jazz Orchestra at 1:00 p.m. and concludes with a Rose City favorite, Soul Vaccination.
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The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra with David Brophy, conductor
David Brophy conducts the world premieres of two new RTÉ NSO commissions by Anne-Marie O Farrell and Irene Buckley. The programme will also include the Irish premiere of Caroline Shaw s
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Awakening reflects the wondrous transition from the stasis of winter to the rebirth of spring. Humanity experienced a heightened sense of stasis during this past winter, where our daily lives became quite fixed and unchanging, almost suspended in time… We held our breath and waited. This work evokes the sense of transformation and unveiling using dense layered textures to convey the vast expanse of the natural world; the opening up and revealing of new growth, the springing forth of new life. Darkness emerging into light.