For the first time in its 54-year history, the University of Idahoâs Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival will be held completely online.
UI School of Music Director Vanessa Sielert, who also serves as education adviser for the festival, said organizers made changes to this yearâs program to comply with pandemic restrictions. The festival is set for Feb. 25 through 27.
Sielert said one major change is there will be no competitive events included in this yearâs program. Instead, organizers focused on building educational workshops and creating a slightly unorthodox online concert series.
Online workshops will be offered to soloists, combos and large ensembles who will send in recorded video performances that will be reviewed by adjudicators, including music educators and professional performers from across the country. Theyâve also nixed the requirement that students perform with live accompaniment, Sielert said. This allows groups to submit pieces that were recorded se
Yoshi Kato February 11, 2021Updated: February 15, 2021, 8:20 am
Piedmont Piano Co. in Oakland hosts a twice-weekly concert program that launched in the midst of the pandemic. Photo: Piedmont Piano Co.
On the first Thursday of January, viewers from as far away as Brazil, Norway and the Netherlands streamed a live jazz concert from Uptown Oakland. Swedish vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Gunhild Carling, a current South Bay resident, was leading her sextet on the Piedmont Piano Co. bandstand as audience members online commented in the chat box.
Toward the end of an energetic performance, Carling reminded the virtual audience, “If you like this music, don’t forget to tip the band. And we appreciate gifts, love letters … with lipstick traces,” she joked, referencing the jazz standard “These Foolish Things.”
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