EMIT series 2009-10
For the past fourteen years, over 160 events involving new music, jazz, world music, interactive electronics, improvisation and interdisciplinary art forms that incorporate sound have been featured in the EMIT series. EMIT (a registered nonprofit arts organization) brings adventurous music and educational activities to the Tampa Bay are.
Past artists have included Ken Vandermark, Jovino Santos Neto, Eugene Chadbourne, Amy Denio, The ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Moving Current Dance Collective, Tim Berne, Pamela Z, Dave Douglas and many other innovators. EMIT is a recipient of programming awards from from Chamber Music America, ASCAP and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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Helios Jazz Orchestra
Palladium Theater
Sunday, July 12 at 3 PM
$10 general admission
past concerts!
Kevin Mahogany & the Helios Jazz Orchestra
May 31
WMNF Jazz Jam at Skipper's
Kevin Mahogany, one of the premier vocalists in jazz, is the headliner for WMNF's debut Jazz Jam. He will be backed by the Helios Jazz Orchestra. With eleven CD's as a leader, and quite a few as a sideman, Kevin has proved to be the quintessential jazz vocalist. Newsweek describes him as " the standout jazz vocalist of his generation." New Yorker magazine writer Whitney Balliet writes, "There is little Mahogany cannot do." Says the LA TIMES, " Mahogany is one of the first truly gifted male vocalists to emerge in years."
Tuesday, April 21 at 7:30 PM
The Helios Jazz Orchestra
at the West St. Petersburg Public Library
Tuesday, April 14 at 7:30 PM
The Helios Jazz Orchestra
at the Catherine Hickman Theater in Gulfport
Saturday, March 14 from 1-3 PM
Art in the Park - free concert!
Brazilian band O Som Do Jazz performs for this benefit for the Youth Art Corp.
3rd Ave. North & 29th St. in St. Petersburg
Tuesday, March 3 at the Palladium Theater
EMIT sponsors saxophonist Butch Thomas in a concert with the Helios Jazz Orchestra. Butch Thomas has toured internationally with Sting and recorded with artists such as Lenny Kravitz and Jaco Pastorius, amongst others. Vocalists Joanna Rose and Rita Wilson are also featured with the 22-piece big band.
SPC Jazz Festival
January 29, 30 & 31
EMIT was a co-sponsor and planned/contributed to this event for a year. This was the first major jazz festival presented in St. Peterburg.
Thursday, January 29 - The Helios Jazz Orchestra with special guest saxophonist "Sweet" Sue Terry
Friday, January 30 - Latin jazz with Manigua and O Som Do Jazz
Saturday, January 31 - The Sue Terry Quartet with "Sweet" Sue Terry, Mark Neuenschwander, Tracy Alexander and Richard Drexler.
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