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New Bedford JazzFest returns to Pier 3 on New Bedford’s historic waterfront presenting four hours of music by some of New England’s best jazz musicians on Saturday, June 14 from 2 to 7 p.m.
International performing vocalist and Whaling City Sound recording artist Shawnn Monteiro will be featured. The daughter of former Duke Ellington Orchestra sideman, Jimmy Woode, Shawnn has sung throughout the USA and Europe after being discovered by Latin jazz pop impresario Mongo Santamaria in a San Jose, California club. She toured with him for two years and shared the stage with such notables as Stan Kenton, Celia Cruz and Weather Report.
Ms. Monteiro will be backed by the John Harrison Trio. John Harrison III on piano is currently on the faculty of UMass Dartmouth and was the former musical director for Capitol recording artists, Tavares. Chris Poudrier on drums has been performing for over 30 years and is a drum set professor and musical director for the UMass Dartmouth Latin Jazz Ensemble. Rounding out the trio will be bassist, Ron Mahdi, an associate professor in the ensemble and bass department at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
The New Bedford JazzFest audience will also hear the exhilarating funky jazz of the MonteiroBots led by saxophonist Marcus Monteiro, the swinging 17 piece SouthCoast Jazz Orchestra and the modern and Latin jazz inflections of the UMass Dartmouth ensemble, Etymology.
The Artists’ Colony assembled by ArtWorks! of New Bedford will return with a larger display of original art and handmade crafts for sale. JazzFest 2014 T-shirts and CDs from Whaling City Sound will also be available. An assortment of food trucks will also be on site along with beverages.
Tickets are $15.00 in advance through the Your Theatre box office by calling 508-993-0772 or purchased on-line at NewBedfordJazzFest.com, or in person at Bridgewater Credit Union, 41 Fairhaven Commons, Fairhaven, MA and the Symphony Shop, State Road in Dartmouth. The day of the festival, tickets are $20.00 at the gate.
JazzFest 2014 is produced by Your Theatre, Inc. New Bedford’s 68-year old community theatre and sponsored by Bridgewater Credit Union.
