Following the success of the initial four live-streaming concerts, Monks Jazz and the Austin Jazz Society are teaming up for eight more Tuesday night concerts to raise funds for #ProjectSafetyNet.
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Pamela Hart is highly regarded as one of Austin's finest jazz vocalist. She is noted by Austin Women’s Magazine as “Austin’s First Lady of Jazz.” In addition to regular appearances at Austin clubs, broadcasts, and festivals, Pamela and her husband Kevin Hart have produced (and she has performed in) the semi-annual Women in Jazz Concert Series beginning in 1994 through 2019. The series also includes a Vocal Performance Workshop where Pamela and other professional vocalists and musicians share performance techniques, communicating with musicians and many other aspects of jazz singing.
It was Dr. James Polk who gave Pamela the opportunity to perform in European jazz festival tours including the Montreux, Vienne, and Juan des Pins Jazz festivals, with the Texas State University Jazz Band he directed. Pamela also worked with Dr. Polk at the Internal Association for Jazz Educators’ conferences In Toronto and California, the Corpus Christi Jazz Festival and most of the Women in Jazz concerts when Pamela appeared.
Pamela Hart - Vox Ryad D. Howard - Piano Michael Stevens - Double Bass Terrance McDaniel - Drums
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We invite viewers/listeners to donate; contributions ensure our performers get paid, and surplus funds go to Austin Jazz Society’s “Project Safety Net” – a project initiated in late March to assist Austin-area jazz musicians whose livelihoods have been affected by COVID-19. To date, the fundraising project has raised $47,000 and benefitted 64 musicians. austinjazzsociety.org/projectsafetynet.html
