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SPYRO GYRA Returns To Tarrytown Music Hall! Friday, May 31 - Tickets OnSale Now To Members, Friday To Public As Spyro Gyra contemplates upcoming milestones to its storied career, it’s tempting to fall back on the Grateful Dead lyric, "What a long strange trip it’s been" to describe it. During that time, they have performed over five thousand shows, released twenty-nine albums (not counting "Best Of…" compilations) selling over ten million albums while also achieving one platinum and two gold albums. What's more, 2012 marked thirty-five years since their first eponymous album release. Next year, 2014, , signifies 40 years as a band. They show little sign of wanting to slow down either, gaining Grammy© nominations for each of their last four albums. Don't miss their triumphant return to Tarrytown Music Hall on Friday, May 31 at 8pm! Tickets OnSale Today at Noon to Members and Friday at Noon To The Public: 877-840-0457 or http://tickets.tarrytownmusichall.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=1362 RARE NY APPEARANCE! Hugh Masekela & His Group, Direct From South Africa! Debut Appearance at Tarrytown Music Hall, April 17 at 8pm. Tickets Onsale NOW To the Public. South African trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer Hugh Masekela is a two-time Grammy-awarded artist and Africa´s most important jazz and world musician. He has covered the globe and played with just about every top performing artist. Masekela wrote a number of international hits and even topped "Jumping Jack Flash" by the Rolling Stones with his own"Grazing in the Grass" in the 1968 US charts. Another very popular song of Hugh Masekela's called "Bring Him Back Home" became the anthem for Nelson Mandela's world tour, following his release from prison. Don't miss this extraordinary musician and his exciting six-piece group, Direct From South Africa! Wed., April 17 at 8pm Tarrytown Music Hall http://tickets.tarrytownmusichall.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=1338 Tickets: 877-840-0457 JAZZ JOURNEY featuring JANET LAWSON with Mark Morganelli & The Jazz Forum All-Stars In 1994, Grammy-Nominated vocalist Janet Lawson developed, with pianist Lenore Raphael, a program called JAZZ JOURNEY, and through the New Jersey Jazz Society produced a video with Clark Terry, Arnie Lawrence, Ray Drummond and Billy Drummond called “JAZZ and YOUth.” The interactive history of jazz follows the journey of the people taken from their homeland and sold into slavery. Janet exposes this story’s history, sociology, and geography, as well as the ethical values of society, giving students an opportunity to connect to the story by vocally improvising their own melodies and rhythms to the different styles of music from the “journey.” The children begin the “journey” in W. Africa, mimicking animals and the sounds of nature, creating POLYRHYTHMS; moving to the Caribbean, singing SYNCOPATED RHYTHMS; proceeding to the Deep South of the United States, expressing their feelings in the BLUES; to a New Orleans ROMP, imitating tubas, trombones, trumpets and clarinets; and ending up in the big cities of the North, improvising the sounds of BEBOP and SCAT. Over the years, she has brought JAZZ JOURNEY through Artist in Residency programs to children in schools in the Poconos and throughout the US, Canada, Denmark, and Latvia. Janet will collaborate with Jazz Forum Arts Executive Director, Mark Morganelli (Trumpet/Flugelhorn), Vic Juris (Guitar), Cameron Brown (Bass) & Tony Jefferson (Drums & Vocals.) Jazz Journey 2013, funded by JFA Board Member Debra DelToro Phillips, with additional support from each School District, Rotary, BOCES and Schools Foundations, will begin with One Day Residencies in Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington & Tarrytown Elementary Schools. If you're interested in Jazz Journey in your school district, please contact Mark Morganelli 914-631-1000 or jazzforumarts@yahoo.com. Please Support JAZZ FORUM ARTS & Our Continuing Programs! We invite you to consider making a Tax-Deductible Contribution to Jazz Forum Arts , in support of our continuing commitment to bring area audiences nearly three dozen free summer concerts, many outstanding performances in our 21st year at Tarrytown Music Hall, our ongoing presentations at Jazz at Lincoln Center, and for our brand-new Educational initiative, bringing Jazz programs into area elementary schools. To make a donation, please visit http://www.jazzforumarts.org INFO:http://www.jazzforumarts.org   This e-mail was sent from Jazz Forum Arts Immediate removal with ® Secure. To forward this e-mail to a friend or colleague, . To change your e-mail address or update preferences, .