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SUMMARY:Set Your Spirit Free With Jazz at Eastern Mennonite School
DESCRIPTION:Set My Spirit Free: Jazz Music's Soul Connection is the title of a combination concert\, worship service\, story telling and poetry event at Eastern Mennonite School\, Sunday\, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. The 90-minute program will contextualize the uniquely American art form of jazz music and celebrate its place in the worship traditions of the Black church.\n\n\n\nDr. Joanne Gabbin\, a member of Allen Chapel\, will share poetry written about jazz for the event. The poet\, author and educator recently retired from James Madison University\, where she founded the Furious Flower Poetry Center\, America's first academic center dedicated to Black poetry. EMU's Dr. David Berry will provide improvisational piano backing Dr. Gabbin's reading.\n\nMusicians featured in the professional jazz sextet include:\n\n\n \n Lew Taylor\, piano\n \n \n Neil Perrine\, bass\n \n \n Marlon Foster\, drums\n \n \n Marcus Tenney\, trumpet\n \n \n Greg Moody\, reeds\n \n \n Robert Mott\, trombone\n \n\n\nMusical numbers will include compositions by Dizzy Gillespie\, Thelonious Monk\, Sonny Rollins\, McCoy Tyner and Lee Morgan\, among others.\n\n\n\nThe program is free and open to the public in the school's auditorium at 801 Parkwood Drive\, Harrisonburg. \n\n\n\nSponsorship is provided by Eastern Mennonite University's Music Department and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Set My Spirit Free: Jazz Music&rsquo\;s Soul Connection \;is the title of a combination concert\, worship service\, story telling and poetry event at Eastern Mennonite School\, Sunday\, Sept. 25 at 4 p.m. The 90-minute program will contextualize the uniquely American art form of jazz music and celebrate its place in the worship traditions of the Black church.
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\nDr. Joanne Gabbin\, a member of Allen Chapel\, will share poetry written about jazz for the event. The poet\, author and educator recently retired from James Madison University\, where she founded the Furious Flower Poetry Center\, America&rsquo\;s first academic center dedicated to Black poetry. EMU&rsquo\;s \;Dr. David Berry \;will provide improvisational piano backing Dr. Gabbin&rsquo\;s reading.
\n\nMusicians featured in the professional jazz sextet include:
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Lew Taylor\, piano
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Neil Perrine\, bass
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Marlon Foster\, drums
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Marcus Tenney\, trumpet
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Greg Moody\, reeds
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Robert Mott\, trombone
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\n\nMusical numbers will include compositions by Dizzy Gillespie\, Thelonious Monk\, Sonny Rollins\, McCoy Tyner and Lee Morgan\, among others.
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\nThe program is free and open to the public in the school&rsquo\;s auditorium at 801 Parkwood Drive\, Harrisonburg. \;
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\nSponsorship is provided by Eastern Mennonite University'\;s Music Department and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. \;
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LOCATION:Eastern Mennonite School
UID:e.2338.12196
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DTSTAMP:20260415T082813Z
URL:https://chamber.hrchamber.org/events/details/set-your-spirit-free-with-jazz-at-eastern-mennonite-school-12196
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