Boston
Public Library and JazzBoston Bring Live Jazz to Orient Heights
Library
Riffs & Raps: Jazzin’ the Generations engages and entertains
seniors and their juniors
BOSTON – November 15, 2010 – The Boston Public Library this week
announced the launch of a series of free concerts in partnership
with JazzBoston, a 5 year-old nonprofit organization serving artists
and audiences throughout the Greater Boston area. Riffs & Raps:
Jazzin' the Generations invites people of all ages to travel
together on a live musical tour through time that will be stopping
at eight neighborhood branches this December.
Most especially welcome are senior citizens, who will recognize
many favorite songs as their musical guides use jazz standards and
originals to bridge the generations.
The ageless trio of Arni Cheatham on saxophones; Bill Lowe on bass
trombone, tuba, and percussion; and Kevin Harris on keyboards will
take audiences on a journey from the roots of jazz in blues and
spirituals, through the Great American Songbook, and right on to the
sounds of jazz today – with excursions into other music traditions
at home and abroad. Informal conversations with the musicians during
and after each performance will engage audiences as well as
entertain them.
The concert dates for East Boston is as follows:
·Thursday, December 9, 6:30 p.m. at the Orient Heights Branch, 18
Barnes Avenue, East Boston
Riffs & Raps: Jazzin' the Generations was developed by JazzBoston
specially for the Boston Public Library. It is presented in
partnership with the Library and funded by an anonymous gift through
the Boston Public Library Foundation. The program is the most recent
addition to a history of partnerships with JazzBoston dating back to
2007 that includes the annual Jazz Week @ the Boston Public Library,
the original Riffs & Raps after-school program for at-risk
teenagers, and the Riffs & Raps children’s program. JazzBoston also
assists with jazz programming for the Library’s Concerts in the
Courtyard series each summer.
Riffs & Raps is just the latest of the Boston Public Library’s
programs for senior citizens. The Never Too Late Group is one of the
country’s oldest, continuously running groups for seniors. For over
60 years, it has provided a setting for seniors to gather together
and enjoy with their friends a wide variety of programs that are
entertaining and culturally enriching. Programs are held year-round
in the Rabb Lecture Hall at the Central Library on Thursdays at 2:00
pm. For more information, and a complete schedule, visit the Never
Too Late Group web page.
About the BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY:
For more than 160 years, the Boston Public Library has pioneered
public library service in America. Established in 1848, the Boston
Public Library was the first publicly supported municipal library in
America, the first public library to lend books, the first to have a
branch library, and the first to have a children’s room. Today, the
Boston Public Library has twenty-seven neighborhood locations,
including the central library in Copley Square. Each year, the
Boston Public Library hosts nearly 12,000 programs, answers more
than one million reference questions, and serves millions of people.
All of its programs and exhibits are free and open to the public. At
the Boston Public Library, books are just the beginning. To learn
more, visit www.bpl.org.
About JAZZBOSTON:
JazzBoston is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to
building and serving audiences for jazz music, fostering and
expanding opportunities for jazz musicians, and raising Boston's
profile as one of the world's great jazz cities. Educating audiences
of all ages about the music is at the heart of its mission. To learn
more, visit www.jazzboston.org.
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Gina Perille
| Communications Manager
Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
617.859.2273 office
