This was truly a Philadelphia First. A partnership between Penn Music – Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design – St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Hamilton Village and The Jazz Sanctuary. We brought music students of these two great universities a place to join with the House Band composed of instructors from Penn and Drexel. They gained the education and experience of playing with professionals. There was no cost and all were welcome to either listen and enjoy the music or to participate and play the great American music invention Jazz.
This event was brought to the community by The Jazz Sanctuary, Inc. (a charitable organization). We could not have accomplished the planning and realization of our goals without the invaluable help of Dr. Michael Ketner, Director of Performance for the Music Department at the University of Pennsylvania, The Rev. Mariclair Partee Carlsen (St. Mary’s), Music Instructors at Dexel: Bruce Kaminsky and Lynn Riley.
The House Band: All instructors of music
The guitarist is a high school student!!!!!