New Jazz Festival
Cafe Mezzanotte 760 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, Maryland 21146
A new Jazz festival will be held in Severna Park on Sunday, September 19 from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Created as an annual community event, the attraction feature stop shelf jazz groups and fine art in the courtyard and interior of Cafe Mezzanotte at 760 Ritchie Highway (Route 2). The event rain date is September 26. Parking is free and plentiful.
The courtyard and gardens will open to ticket holders at 1:00 p.m. giving attendees an opportunity to enjoy viewing and purchasing fine art and gift selections from Benfield Gallery, Gallery 564, McBride Gallery and Side Street Framers. Festival food and wine tasting stations will be available and the restaurant will offer its full Mediterranean menu.
Music begins at 1:00 p.m. with Amoroso as the opening act. The global jazz trio features some of Anne Arundel County’s most influential and beloved players: Annie Award winning multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Elizabeth Melvin(Wooden Hands, Mama Jama, Caribbean ArtJazzEnsemble),guitarist and vocalist Richard Rausch and Dick Glass, who plays flugelhorn in this concert.
Headliners, The JoGo Project,will deliver some of the most popular and innovative sounds to come out of the nation’s capital in decades. Led by international saxophonist and former Chuck Brown protégéElijah Jamal Balbed, the band combines jazz and Go-Go music in one highly entertaining band consisting of vocalist Paul Spires, trumpeter Brad Clements, guitarist Zachary Cutler, bassist Delorean Fullington, drummerWillie Howell and percussionist Lewis Mike Burney. Set highlights include originals such as Balbed’s “One for Pops,” a composition dedicated to his mentor Chuck Brown,and jazz standards such as Nat Simon’s “Poinciana,” written in 1936.