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DC Jazz Festival Education - Jazz and Go-Go: Teaching Its Connections

Tue, Apr 04

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Arena Stage Kreeger Theatre

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DC Jazz Festival Education - Jazz and Go-Go: Teaching Its Connections
DC Jazz Festival Education - Jazz and Go-Go: Teaching Its Connections

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Apr 04, 2023, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Arena Stage Kreeger Theatre, 1101 6th St SW, Washington, DC 20024, USA

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Jazz and Go-Go: Teaching Its Connections demonstrates the main elements in jazz and Go-Go, DC’s unique art form. Teaching artist Elijah Balbed and the JoGo Project will guide students through an engaging and interactive lesson on jazz and go-go, demonstrating the overlapping themes of swing, improvisation, blues, sampling, signifying, and swagger. The JoGo Project is a WAMMIE Award-winning band from Washington, DC that fuses many styles of music with jazz harmonies with a driving Go-Go beat at its core.

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