Tickets Saturday, June 16, 8 pm Garden Concert* Must be purchased in advance 2017-2018 Preferred Seats (PS): Reserved seats in front rows with additional A Fathers Day Tribute to Harold McKinney
leg room; early admission to concerts; first in line for dinner PAID Non-Profit Gayelynn McKinney McKinFolk MI Detroit, Holiday Concert with Kathy Kosins: $60 / PS $70 Postage U.S. All other concerts: $50 / PS $60 2781 No. Permit Series (eight concerts): $395 (includes PS seating — save $95) Group discount: Ten or more tickets to a single concert: $5 discount for each ticket (must be ordered at one time) 313-891-2514 b palmerwoods.org email: [email protected] Order and pay for tickets online or by phone • Limited seating Tickets are not refundable Directions to homes revealed prior to concert to ticket holders All concerts include a light dinner, beverages & desserts.
Michelle McKinney Photos by BarbaraPhotos by Barefield Order Form Mail self-addressed stamped envelope & check to: Gayelynn McKinney Palmer Woods Association 19550 Argyle Crescent • Detroit, MI 48203 Gifted, multi-genre percussionist/ A limited number of discount student tickets may be available for certain composer Gayelynn concerts; two free children’s concerts will be announced on palmerwoods.org McKinney grew up in a Name______home enveloped in music, a hub for some of Detroit’s most Address______Vincent Chandler important jazz musicians. Her City______State____Zip______Marcus Elliot dad, jazz master pianist/composer Harold McKinney, her mom, singer Gwendolyn Shepherd McKinney, along with jazz luminaries Marcus Phone______Belgrave, Wendell Harrison, George Davidson, Max Roach, and other friends and Email______fellow artists, filled their home with music and passion ’round the clock. Creative Arts Collective/ Arts Creative Association Woods Palmer 19550 Argyle Crescent MI 48203 Detroit, Email us: Go paperless. [email protected] with a friend or Please share this brochure. recycle q ____Series Tickets @ $395 (8 concerts). By age two, Gayelynn had her own drum set, and knew her path followed the q ______magic of music. This journey led her to multiple awards, including the 2014 tickets @ $60 or PS @ $70 Sat., Dec. 30: Kresge Arts Fellowship, and recently to become Aretha Franklin’s drummer. She Pre-New Year’s Eve Holiday Concert with Kathy & Kamau is well known for the Grammy-nominated work with her all-female Atlantic q ____tickets @ $50 or ____PS @ $60 Sat., Feb. 3: recording jazz band Straight Ahead, and has performed as a side musician with Mardi Gras with Alvin Waddles & Fats Waller Review such notables as Geri Allen, Marcus Belgrave, Chaka Kahn, Sonny Fortune, Larry q ____tickets @ $50 or ____PS @ $60 Sat., Feb. 24: Coryell, James Carter, Regina Carter, Freda Payne, and many others. Honoring Black History Month: A. Spencer Barefield Sextet On this Father’s Day weekend, it’s an honor to showcase Gayelynn’s McKinFolk, q ____tickets @ $50 or ____PS @ $60 Sat., March 24: an ensemble that celebrates the music and mentorship of her beloved dad, the Pamela Wise World Music Sextet featuring Wendell Harrison late jazz legend Harold McKinney. “You’re gonna hear…a little bit of funkiness, and Naima Shamborguer definitely some swinging-ness, and some wonderful, beautiful ballads that he q ______wrote,” Gayelynn told the MetroTimes. Her Dad’s music, along with her own tickets @ $50 or PS @ $60 Sun., April 29: compositions, jazz classics, and pieces from her new recording for Detroit Music Classical: Eason Trio with harpist Patricia Terry-Ross Factory, McKinFolk: The New Beginning, will be featured. Her stellar group includes q ____tickets @ $50 ____PS @ $60 Saturday, May 26: longtime partner from Straight Ahead, bassist Marion Hayden, vocalist Latin Jazz with Orquesta La Inspiracion* and stepmom Michelle McKinney, trumpeter Dwight Adams (a Stevie q ____tickets @ $50 ____PS @ $60 Friday, June 15: Wonder regular), trombonist Vincent Chandler, and Detroit’s younger rising Jazz, Planet D Nonet Salute to Strayhorn* stars, saxophonist Marcus Elliot and pianist Michael Mallis. It will be a q ____tickets @ $50 ____PS @ $60 Saturday, June 16: perfect Father’s Day celebration, so be sure to bring the Dads in your life! Classical Gayelynn McKinney McKinFolk* Thank you Sponsors & Presenters & World $______total enclosed. Checks Be Well Medical Center City Living Detroit Palmer Woods Association Music payable to Palmer Woods Association & Skin Rejuvenation Austin Black • 313-242-7800 palmerwoods.org May and June concerts are held in a spacious tent set up in the gardens of Dr. Paul Benson citylivingdetroit.com Creative Arts Collective * 248-544-9300 a home; you may tour a portion of the home prior to concert. In the case of DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital spencerbarefield.com DoctorBeWell.com severe weather, Palmer Woods Music in Homes (MIH) will move the concert www.sinaigrace.org 313-891-2514 Concerts in Mansions & Historic Homes
to the beautiful art deco Detroit Unity Temple or other nearby venue. MIH Blossoms in Birmingham DetroitPerforms.org Barefield DesignWorks Music Jazz, Classical & World Concerts! of Season 11th Presented by Palmer Woods Association and Creative Arts Collective with support from Be Well Medical Center, Blossoms, Barefield DesignWorks, reserves the right to make program changes if necessary. & Detroit • 248-644-4411 WRCJ-90.9 FM • wrcjfm.org BarbaraBarefield.com in our historic architectural treasures architectural in our historic City Living Detroit, DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital, DetroitPerforms.org and WRCJ-90.9 FM blossomsbirmingham.com Classical Days, Jazzy Nights 313-574-6847 palmerwoods.org Holiday Celebration KATHY KOSINS KAMAU Alvin Waddles with John Douglas and Marion Hayden KENYATTA Wendell Harrison Pamela Wise Saturday, May 26, 8 pm Saturday, February 3, 8 pm Saturday, March 24, 8 pm Orquesta La Inspiracion Garden Concert* QUINTET Mardi Gras Celebration: Pamela Wise World Music Sextet Our annual Latin Jazz World Music concert is always a favorite. Orquesta Alvin Waddles & Fats Waller Review “The motivation, inspiration, passion and vision of Pamela Wise’s music comes La Inspiracion, founded by Puerto Rican congera Ozzie Rivera and under Experience an evening of rich jazz history when pianist/vocalist Alvin from tracing the music of her African ancestors. Drum rhythms and patterns are the the musical direction of award-winning jazz pianist/composer Bill Meyer, Waddles plays the music of stride and ragtime legends Fats Waller, Jelly basis of her work, with a specific focus on West Africa,” states Kresge Arts, awarding is a large ensemble of some of the Detroit area’s most talented and Roll Morton, and other greats. Widely popular for his central roles in Ain’t Wise with the prestigious 2016 Kresge Artist Fellowship. Dan Ouellette of Downbeat knowledgeable Latin musicians. La Inspiracion features a hot horn section Misbehavin’ and Too Hot to Handel, Waddles will tickle the ivories with his raves, “Wise, an assured bop pianist with a Tyneresque (as in McCoy Tyner) touch, led by saxophonist Chris Kaercher, explosive percussions driven by top dynamic ensemble: bassist Marion Hayden, trumpeter John Douglas composes strong melodies and braces them with the simmering rhythms of the Latin musicians including Ozzie, rhythmic bassist Eddie Caraballo, and and percussionist Djallo Djakate Keita. Waddles has worked with some Afro-Cuban tradition.” Wise will perform with internationally recognized clarinet/ soulful vocals with the dynamic Dulce Checkler and others. The beats of
Photo courtesy of musicians Photo courtesy of the world’s finest musicians, including Robert Shaw, Brazeal Dennard, saxophone/composer guru Wendell Harrison, the soulful, jazzy vocalist Naima salsa, merengue, cumbia and Afro-Caribbean jazz will entice you to dance as Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, Placido Domingo, George Shirley, Marcus Shamborguer, and a smoking Afro-Cuban rhythm section with bassist Damon you enjoy the music and a tasty Latin-style meal served during intermission. Belgrave, Tramaine Hawkins and others. To get into the spirit, masks, beads and Warmack, percussionist Akunda Hollis and drummer Louis M. Jones. Mardi Gras attire are encouraged. During intermission, fill your plate with Saturday creole-style favorites—jambalaya, red beans, rice, and corn bread. Sunday, April 29, 7 pm December 30, 8 pm Saturday, February 24, 8 pm Eason Trio: Harpist Patricia Terry-Ross Kathy Kosins is “one of the most alluring voices in Kamau Kenyatta & Kathy Kosins Honoring Black History Month Violinist Velda Kelly & Cellist Nadine Deleury Jazz” according to the Chicago Tribune, and Blue Note Playing in the Eason Trio is a special
Records President Don Was takes it up a notch, A. Spencer Barefield Sextet passion for Patricia Terry-Ross, Photo by Pedraz Kyla Dorsey proclaiming her “one of the finest singers in the This homage to Black Music features extraordinary musicians of Velda Kelly and Nadine world.” An internationally acclaimed vocalist, song- multiple generations who will perform innovative and legendary Deleury. It’s where they can
writer, composer and painter, Kosins has been filling jazz from bebop to avant garde. Brimming with imagination, these expand the chamber music of musicians Photo courtesy the airwaves and concert halls with magic for decades. musicians have improvisational chops rooted in the history of repertoire for their rare pairing of Kosins will perform with an all-star band, including her jazz, enabling them to perform challenging harp, violin and cello, and new producer Kamau Kenyatta on piano. Kenyatta compositions, including works by recently commission new works specifically recently won a Grammy for producing famed jazz departed piano masters Muhal Richard for them. Virtuosic, longtime vocalist Gregory Porter’s newest recording, following Abrams and Geri Allen, as well by Coltrane, members of the Michigan Opera Friday, June 15, 8 pm Garden Concert* three Grammy nominations with Porter. A superb Monk and others. The concert also Theatre and Chamber Music at the saxophonist and keyboardist, Kenyatta is also an in features decades of works by guitarist Scarab Club, each musician also Planet D Nonet Salute to Strayhorn demand film composer and educator based in Califoria. A. Spencer Barefield A. Spencer Barefield commissioned plays regularly with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Terry-Ross, recently Planet D Nonet pays homage to one of the jazz and swing giants of by the Kresge Foundation, NEA, Meet the honored with the 2017 Kresge Eminent Artist award, has peformed on some of the 20th Century, composer-arranger Billy Strayhorn (1915-67). For years, Creating the holiday spirit with Composer, Arts Midwest, Arts International, the world’s most renowned stages, including the Kennedy Center and Carnegie his brilliance was shadowed by his collaboration with Duke Ellington. Kosins and Kenyatta will be Raphael Statin MCACA and others. “Barefield’s synthesis Hall, with luminaries such as Luciano Pavarotti, Sammy Davis Jr. and Johnny Mathis. Now, Strayhorn’s genius is more widely recognized and is featured front guitarist A. Spencer Barefield, of African string music, jazz, and timbrel She has been the principal harpist at the Michigan Opera Theatre for 40 years and center in PD9’s new recording on the Detroit Music Factory label, A bassist Dave Young investigations…coupled with his and can be heard on 1970’s Motown recordings with legendary stars, including Salute to Strayhorn, which is moving up to the top of Billboard’s jazz charts. (Canadian Juno awardee who compositional versatility, merits special Marvin Gaye and the Temptations. Co-artistic directors of the 20-year Chamber Musicians include saxophonists Justin Jozwiak, Daniel Bennett, performed with Oscar Peterson consideration,” praises Downbeat critic Bill Music at the Scarab Club series, Deleury and Kelly are well known for and Joshua James, co-bandleader James O’Donnell on trumpet and for decades), and percussionist Shoemaker, “He is nothing less than capti- their innovative programming and outstanding performances. The Eason Trio’s percussion, trumpeter Ken Ferry, trombonist John Tbone Paxton, Djallo Djakate Keita. vating.” He has recorded and toured inter- Music in Homes program will feature a variety of classical music, especially pianist Phillip Hale, Damon Warmack on electric bass, percussionist The festivities include a delicious nationally. His ensemble includes saxophon- compositions written during the early 20th Century and beyond. Akunda Hollis, and bandleader percussionist RJ Spangler. Winners light meal, gourmet desserts, and ists Marcus Elliot and Rafael Statin, Concerts are produced by A. Spencer and Barbara Barefield of the of the Detroit Music Award in 2016 for Outstanding Traditional Jazz Artist/ sparkling wine for a pre-New Dave Young Djallo Djakate Keita pianist Ian Finkelstein, bassist Jeff Creative Arts Collective in collaboration with the Palmer Woods Association Group, PD9 is widely celebrated for playing swing, blues, space-age jazz and Ian Finkelstein Year’s Eve toast. Design & photos (unless noted) by ©Barbara Barefield Pedraz and drummer Sean Dobbins. and supported by the efforts of many volunteers. classic American songs with spirit, soul and a generous dose of spunk.