SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — Shepherd University’s Department of Music will host the Shepherd Jazz Festival on Saturday, February 27. Local and regional high school and middle school bands will perform and work with guest clinicians throughout the day. Several jazz ensembles from Shepherd will perform a concert at 4 p.m. in the Frank Center Theater with the guest clinicians as featured soloists. The concert is free and open to the public.
The festival will feature master classes and clinics with guest faculty trumpeter Mike Kamuf, pianist Brian Dean, and bassist Kevin Pace. There will also be a jam session with Shepherd University students.
The Shepherd University Jazz Ensemble has performed throughout the East Coast and Europe and has participated in jazz festivals around the globe. Invited to the Montreux Jazz festival in 2003, the Jazz Ensemble played throughout Switzerland and Italy on a nine-day concert tour. In 1999, the band took its Ellington Tour to England and France. It also toured England in May 2007. In the United States the ensemble has been featured at the Longwood, the Blue Ridge, and the East Coast jazz festivals, as well as regional festivals throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey.
For more information about the Shepherd Jazz Festival, call 304-876-5555 or visitwww.shepherd.edu/music.