Tickets Saturday, June 20, 8 pm Garden Concert* 2019-2020 Must be purchased in advance • Not refundable Straight Ahead Preferred Seats (PS): Reserved seats in front rows with additional Out of ’s leg room; early admission to concerts; first in line for dinner explosive scene PAID Non-Profit Detroit, MI Detroit, Holiday Concert with Barefield & Friends: $60 / PS $70 comes the ground- Postage U.S. Permit No. 2781 No. Permit All other concerts: $50 / PS $60 breaking Straight Ahead. Series (nine concerts): $440 (includes PS seating — save $100) An ensemble of strong, Group discount: Ten or more tickets to a single concert: inventive instrumentalists $5 discount for each ticket (must be ordered at one time) and vocalists, they are 313-891-2514 palmerwoods.org powerful and imaginative Email: [email protected] composers and arrangers: Order and pay for tickets online or by phone • Limited seating pianist Alina Morr, bassist Marion palmerwoodsmusicinhomes2020.eventbrite.com , drummer Directions to homes revealed prior to concert to ticket holders Hayden Photos courtesy of musicians Gayelynn McKinney, All concerts include a meal, beverages & desserts saxophonist Yancyy, and vocalist Kymberli Wright. Grammy-nominated and award-winning, Straight Ahead is Detroit’s premier all-

Order Form female jazz ensemble (with the current addition of Yancyy). Their sound ranges Tickets will be held at door of concert; send a check to: from mainstream to contemporary jazz, Latin to jazzy hip-hop. Members of the Palmer Woods Association, P.O. Box 21086 • Detroit, MI 48221 Hall of Fame, Straight Ahead the first all-women A limited number of discount student tickets may be available for certain jazz ensemble signed to , which released three of their . concerts; two free children’s concerts will be announced on palmerwoods.org Together and individually, they’ve shared the stage with many musical giants, including Geri Allen, Kem, Jean Luc Ponty, Nancy Wilson, Roy Ayers, , Name______George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Max Roach, Dianne Reeves, Regina Carter, and Address______others.The ensemble received international exposure when they opened for the City______State____Zip______legendary at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland. Phone______Saturday, June 27, 4 pm & 7 pm Palmer Park Log Cabin Email______Spencer-Marion-Isis Trio Enjoy an afternoon or evening concert with

q ____ (9 concerts). Collective/ Arts Creative Association Woods Palmer Argyle Crescent 19550 MI 48203 Detroit, Email us: Go paperless. [email protected] with a friend or Please share this brochure. recycle Series Tickets @ $440 guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, bassist q ____tickets @ $60 or____PS @ $70 Sat., Dec. 28: Marion Hayden and vocalist Isis Damil Holiday Concert with Barefield, Nurullah & Friends in the magical Palmer Park Log Cabin, one of q ____tickets @ $50 or____PS @ $60 Sat., Jan. 25: Detroit’s most significant architectural treasures. Mardi Gras with Alvin Waddles & Fats Waller Review Isis, the daughter of jazz musicians, inherited

q ____tickets @ $50 or____PS @ $60 Sat., Feb. 29: DNA infused with music. She’s merged her Honoring Black History Month: Jannina, Jason & Friends classical training with jazz, funk, fusion, neo-soul, scat, rap, and R&B to achieve an exquisite voice q ____ or____ Sat., March 28: tickets @ $50 PS @ $60 with depth, richness and passion of someone Charlie Parker Centennial with the Jazz Ambassadors decades older. Bassist Marion Hayden and q ____tickets @ $50 or____PS @ $60 Sat., April 18: guitarist A. Spencer Barefield are international East Meets West Classical: Xiao Dong Wei & Yuki Mack jazz legends with resumes that extend for q ____tickets @ $90 or____PS @ $110 Memorial miles. Their mastery will provide a synergy of Weekend Festival, May 22-23: Orquesta & Thornetta* sensational sound to this historic landmark. q ____tickets @ $50 or ____PS @ $60 Friday, May 22: The Log Cabin, a Victorian-style home on the Orquesta La Inspiracion Memorial Weekend concert* interior covered with logs on the exterior, was q ____ or ____ Saturday, May 23: built in 1885 for Sen. Thomas Palmer and his tickets @ $50 PS @ $60 wife Lizzie. It is being restored by the nonprofit Queen Memorial Weekend concert* People for Palmer Park and the City of Detroit. q ____tickets @ $50 or ____PS @ $60 Saturday, June 20: Dynamic all-women jazz band Straight Ahead (w/Yancyy)* Thank you Sponsors & Presenters q ____tickets @ $50 Sat., June 27, Palmer Park Log Cabin Be Well Medical Center Mario Morrow & Assoc. Palmer Woods Association Jazz, Classical ____4 pm or ____7 pm: Spencer-Marion-Isis Trio & Skin Rejuvenation 313-800-5973 palmerwoods.org Dr. Paul Benson mariomorrow.com Creative Arts Collective & $______total enclosed 248-544-9300 DetroitPerforms.org spencerbarefield.com *May 22-23 and June 20th concerts are held in a spacious tent set up in the garden of a DoctorBeWell.com WRCJ-90.9 FM 313-891-2514 Concerts in Mansions & Historic Homes

home; you may tour a portion of the home prior to concert. In the case of severe weather, treasures in our historic architectural wrcjfm.org Presented by Palmer Woods Association and Creative Arts Collective with support from Jazz, Classical & World Music Jazz, Classical & World

Palmer Woods Music in Homes will move the concert to the beautiful art deco Detroit Blossoms in Birmingham Barefield DesignWorks Concerts! of Season 13th Be Well Medical Center, Mario Morrow & Associates, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Unity Temple or another nearby venue. MIH reserves the right to make program changes. & Detroit • 248-644-4411 Knight Foundation BarbaraBarefield.com Barefield DesignWorks, Blossoms Birmingham & Detroit, DetroitPerforms.org and WRCJ-90.9 FM blossomsbirmingham.com knightfoundation.org 313-574-6847 palmerwoods.org Holiday Celebration Memorial Weekend Festival! Friday, May 22, 8 pm Garden Concert* Orquesta La Inspiracion Latin Jazz

Alvin Waddles with Marion Hayden and John Douglas Trunino Lowe Saturday, January 25, 8 pm Saturday, March 28, 8 pm Rafael Statin Mardi Gras Celebration: Jazz Ambassadors Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker Centennial This concert will honor Charlie “Bird” Parker, one of the most influential Alvin Waddles & Fats Waller Review innovators of Jazz and , a master of improvisation, and brilliant composer. Experience an evening of rich jazz history when master pianist/vocalist Alvin SHAHIDA, The program will feature classic jazz by Parker and others who were inspired by Waddles plays the music of stride and legends Fats Waller, Jelly him, including new works by A. Spencer Barefield (with support from the Knight & Roll Morton, , the Gershwin brothers, and other greats. Widely SPENCER Foundation). The ensemble includes saxophonist , guitarist popular for his central roles in Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Too Hot to Handel, Waddles Rafael Statin A. Spencer Barefield, trumpeter Trunino Lowe, bassist Brian Juarez, FRIENDS will tickle the ivories with his dynamic ensemble: bassist Marion Hayden, and drummer Everett Reid. trumpeter John Douglas and percussionist Djallo Djakate. Waddles has Saturday, December 28, 8 pm New Music America describes Rafael as “one of those rarest of multi-instrumen- , founded by Puerto Rican congera , one of the Motor City’s most worked with some of the world’s finest musicians, including Robert Shaw, Brazeal Orquesta La Inspiracion Ozzie Shahida Nurullah talist who can combine great passion, intellectual discipline, and a spiritual fire that and under the musical direction of award-winning jazz pianist/com- treasured vocalists, is the epitome of the great Jazz and Dennard, , , Placido Domingo, George Shirley, Marcus Rivera is evocative of great artistic creativity …[he’s] established himself as a remarkable poser , is a large ensemble of some of the Detroit area’s most Blues that emanate from Detroit. Her vast repertoire Belgrave, Tramaine Hawkins, and others. To get into the spirit, masks, beads, and Bill Meyer composer and musician…” Rafael has performed with legendary bassist Reggie dynamic and authentic Latin musicians. La Inspiracion features a burning hot includes jazz, blues, samba, bossa nova, show tunes, Mardi Gras attire are encouraged. During intermission, fill your plate with creole- Workman (who performed and recorded with John Coltrane), Bob Hurst, Jeff horn section, explosive percussions led by Ozzie, and souful vocals with American Songbook, and Brazilian and New Orleans gems. style favorites—jambalaya, red beans, rice, and corn bread. Pamela Wise “Tain” Watts, and many other greats. and others. The beats of salsa, merengue, cumbia, and Her talents have been lauded internationally from the Dulce Checkler Saturday, February 29, 8 pm Classical & Beyond Afro-Caribbean jazz will make dancing irresistible (a free Salsa class with the stages of the Detroit Jazz Festival, Preservation Hall, NYC, Saturday, April 18, 8 pm Classical~East Meets West Dance Studio just prior to the concert will help you brush up Paris, Amsterdam, and beyond. Singing in three languages, Honoring Black History Month Erhuist Xiao Dong Wei & Pianist Yuki Mack on your steps!). A tasty Latin-style meal is included. her lush and upbeat voice is reminiscent of the classic Jannina Norpoth, Jason Amos & Friends Chinese-born erhu master styles of Sarah Vaughan and Carmen McRae. It is steeped Violinist Jannina Norpoth and violist Jason Amos, both internationally Xiao Dong Wei creates Saturday, May 23, 8 pm Garden Concert* in the musical nuances acquired through years of acclaimed classical artists and members of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, will spirited and Blues Queen Thornetta Davis performing with luminaries such as Geri Allen, Marcus perform a Detroit Homecoming concert in tribute to great Black composers and engaging musical Begin the summertime season with ’s Funky Belgrave, Charlie Gabriel, Donald Walden, and others. musicians. For a portion of the concert, guitarist A. Spencer Barefield and bridges spanning Rockin’ Blues Queen Thornetta Guitarist A. Spencer Barefield reflects Detroit’s great bassist John-Paul Norpoth will join the duo with a world premiere of a new thousands of Davis and her electrifying band. Her musical legacy. The artistic director of Music in Homes is Barefield composition commissioned with the support of the Knight Foundation. miles—from Beijing heart-thumping voice has kept the “an extraordinary guitarist/composer” according to The concert celebrates chamber music that highlights the legacy of Black to her Detroit area local Blues, R&B and Soul scene alive John-Paul Norpoth JazzTimes. He has performed extensively through- composers, including works by Jessie Montgomery, George Walker, Coleridge- home. Xiao Dong’s for more than three decades—and out Europe and the U.S. with legends Roscoe Taylor Perkinson, and others. Jannina is a member of Grammy-nominated father began she’s exhilarated audiences at interna- Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake, and PUBLIQuartet, the 2016-17 Artists-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum teaching her to play tional Blues Festivals from Tunisia to Reggie Workmen, to name a few. A Kresge of Art and Chamber Music America’s 2019 Visionary Artists. She debuted as when she was five, Denmark, and throughout Europe. Arts Fellow, and recipient of numerous a soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at age 14 and since then and at age 11 her studies Her talent has earned her a 2018 grants for composing, he recently was has built a career as an innovative artist, performer, arranger, and educator. took her to the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. There she Kresge Artist Fellowship, the 2017 awarded support from the prestigious Jason has served as violist of the Boston Public Quartet and resident also learned to play the guzheng (a zither-like instrument), the guitar-like pipa, the L’Academie du Jazz Award for “Prix Knight Foundation. musician at musiConnects, a non-profit that erhu (a Chinese two-stringed violin), and classical piano. She has lived in the U.S. Blues ,” a spot in the Detroit Pianist supreme, Kresge provides free instruments and music education since 2005, and has performed with orchestras around the country. A 2012 Kresge Music Awards Hall of Fame, some Arts Fellow Pamela to Boston’s underserved children. He is a also Artist Fellow, Xiao has performed internationally as a soloist, with chamber 30 Detroit Music Awards, and Wise, bassist Jeff Pedraz and a faculty member at Project STEP, an intensive ensembles and orchestras—including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra—playing more. Thornetta’s graced the drummer Djallo Djakate will training program for minority string players. Chinese and Western , world music, and more. Japanese-born pianist stage with , Alberta help create the holiday spirit with John-Paul has performed with many great jazz, Yuki Mack has dazzled audiences on three continents. Her performances Adams and Katie Webster, and Shahida and Spencer. The festivities classical, and avant garde music stars, including include a broad range of piano works, from chamber to orchestral music. In opened for , BB include a delicious meal, gourmet Pauline Kim Harris, Tyshawn Sorey, Bang-on-a- addition to collaborations with Xiao, she performs as a soloist and in piano duos King, , and Etta desserts, and sparkling wine for a Can, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul with her sister Tomoko. In 2006, Yuki and Tomoko were selected as Steinway Artists. James, to name a few. pre-New Year’s Eve toast. Chamber Orchestra, and numerous others. Design & photos (unless noted) by ©Barbara Barefield June concerts on the back

Jannina Norpoth Jason Amos Jannina photo by Lelanie Foster, Jason photo by Kate Lemmon