Jazz in Bakersfield
BJW announces 2013 Scholarship/Award Program
The BJW is pleased to announce that it will be accepting applications for its 2013 Scholarship Award Program. Each year, as our budget allows, we try to award monies to deserving jazz students in the area to help them improve their jazz skills. If you are a jazz student and are interested in applying for ...
Join us every Wednesday at Le Corusse Rouge!
Don’t forget to join us every Wednesday evening at Le Corusse Rouge, 4647 White Lane, in Bakersfield. We have a beginning jazz class at 6:30 p.m., then a featured jazz act at 7:30 p.m., followed by an open jazz jam session at 8:30 until 10 p.m. And the best part about it, besides the great ...
BJW celebrates 6th anniversary Sept. 19th
Free clinic/concert by Aram Shelton Quartet, who will be appearing at this year’s Monterey Jazz Festival It’s hard to believe, but, this Wednesday, September 19, 2012, the Bakersfield Jazz Workshop will be celebrating its 6th Anniversary! We hope you all can join us this week as we’ll be presenting another of our FREE clinic/concerts for ...
June 13 – Haakon Graf Clinic / Concert & Awards
It’s that time of year again – Free Clinics/Concerts and Scholarship Awards! The Bakersfield Jazz Workshop is proud to announce that its next Free clinic/concert will be held on June 13, with internationally known jazz pianist Haakon Graf as our clinician. Originally from Oslo, Norway, and now residing in Marina Del Rey, Haakon has won ...
2012 Scholarship/Award application process starting!!!
It’s that time of year again. The BJW will be accepting applications for student scholarships beginning Apr. 1. The awards are given to deserving young jazz students for college expenses, camps, and private lessons. Last year we presented our awards at the Jacques Lesure clinic/concert. Pictured is the co-winner of the 2011 Lary Totten Memorial, ...
Donald Dean and His Quartet – Free Clinic/Concert Mar. 14
We hope everyone has some time to join us this Wednesday, Mar. 14, for our next Bakersfield Jazz Workshop at Le Corusse Rouge! This week we are offering the second of the BJW’s 2012 Clinician Series. We are proud to present Donald Dean and His Quartet for this FREE clinic/concert. Los Angeles based drummer Dean has been ...
Arts Council of Kern awards $1250 grant to the BJW
We are happy to announce that the Arts Council of Kern has awarded the Bakersfield Jazz Workshop a Community Grant in the amount of $1250 for 2012. The money will be used to help support the BJW’s educational clinics and scholarships. Dr. Michael Millar, Executive Director of the Arts Council, said that the award was ...
Thelma Jones to give special clinic/concert – Feb. 22
The Bakersfield Jazz Workshop is proud to announce the first of this year’s FREE clinics/concerts. Our programs for the last two years have been well attended by large and very enthusiastic crowds. This year should be no exception. We’re starting the series off with the legendary and very talented gospel, R&B, and jazz singer Thelma ...
New Beginning Jazz Improv class; all ages welcome!
Attention!!! Attention!!! The Bakersfield Jazz Workshop Big Band (beg.) wants you! We’re changing the format of our Beginning Jazz Improv class. Entirely free of charge and open to ALL ages, the goal of the class will be to offer and promote a structured sense on improv education within a jazz ensemble (big band) setting. We’ll be teaching ...
BJW computer crash update, Nov. 28, 2011
As many of you know, we had a hard drive failure a few weeks ago, just as we were getting ready to back everything up on our external drive. Most of our data has been recovered, however, we did lose a few email addresses that had been added recently. If you’re wondering why you haven’t ...
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