This is a free concert / recital led by Dee Spencer on keyboards with Jewell McMillon on bass, Jay Hernandez on drums and Michelle Jacques as Mistress of Choirs!
The occasion is the graduating event for Dee's students from the inaugural Women in Jazz & World Music vocal training course. The evening will feature eight young ladies from high school and college who have spent a month-long intensive with Dee and six celebrity guest lecturers. In addition to learning professional singing techniques, they have also studied the lives of some of the legendary women in the history of jazz and world music. Tonight they will give their renditions of classic songs originally covered by the likes of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.
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The occasion is the graduating event for Dee's students from the inaugural Women in Jazz & World Music vocal training course. The evening will feature eight young ladies from high school and college who have spent a month-long intensive with Dee and six celebrity guest lecturers. In addition to learning professional singing techniques, they have also studied the lives of some of the legendary women in the history of jazz and world music. Tonight they will give their renditions of classic songs originally covered by the likes of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.
This is a free concert / recital led by Dee Spencer on keyboards with Jewell McMillon on bass, Jay Hernandez on drums and Michelle Jacques as Mistress of Choirs!
The occasion is the graduating event for Dee's students from the inaugural Women in Jazz & World Music vocal training course. The evening will feature eight young ladies from high school and college who have spent a month-long intensive with Dee and six celebrity guest lecturers. In addition to learning professional singing techniques, they have also studied the lives of some of the legendary women in the history of jazz and world music. Tonight they will give their renditions of classic songs originally covered by the likes of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.
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The occasion is the graduating event for Dee's students from the inaugural Women in Jazz & World Music vocal training course. The evening will feature eight young ladies from high school and college who have spent a month-long intensive with Dee and six celebrity guest lecturers. In addition to learning professional singing techniques, they have also studied the lives of some of the legendary women in the history of jazz and world music. Tonight they will give their renditions of classic songs originally covered by the likes of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone.
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3316 24th Steet, San Francisco, CA 94110
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