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August 8, 2020 Virtual event The Best Car Dealer in Sayre, Towanda and Elmira Remember what Don says, “If you don’t see ME… I can’t save YOU any money!” 2463 Corning Rd, Elmira NY 14903 102 Spring St, Sayre PA 18840 www.ferrario.com 212 Golden Mile, Towanda PA 18848 2 Welcome to EOP’s Virtual Ferrario Elmira Jazz Festival 2020! Thank you for supporting the Ninth Annual Ferrario Elmira Jazz Festival. The Economic Opportunity Program, Inc. (EOP) celebrates serving the community for 55 years. We began 2020 focusing on the words of Mike Hawkins, “You don’t get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.” Those words ring true as we serve the community through COVID-19. Our daily focus during COVID-19 produced the results of providing more than 200-300 meals at EOP Curbside - breakfast and dinner, including Libertad- Elmira homeless veterans; delivering more than 80 meals to Head Start children; and providing limited childcare supporting essential workers. #EOPEssential EOP’s Ferrario Elmira Jazz Festival (FEJF) is about More than the Music... it's about fundraising results for programs that annually support more than 5000 people with services in Childcare, Youth Care and Family Development. The FEJF supports our ultimate goal to #Focus2Finish 2020 so that ...all of the people within our community live with dignity and have the opportunity and ability to live economically productive and satisfying lives. Thank you for attending EOP’s Virtual Ferrario Elmira Jazz Festival 2020 in support of EOP, Inc. programs and services. We appreciate your donation to our annual fundraiser in the GoFundMe format. Your corporate sponsorships, musical gifts, ads, and willingness to try something new and different speaks volumes of your commitment to our community. We thank all our artists, consultants, sponsors, and committee members for being creative and innovative with the new format. Music is a unifier that inspires and encourages. So during this current crisis, let’s come together ‘socially distancing yet collectively joined’ in a virtual community to enjoy our incredible musicians. Together, let’s keep using creative platforms to continue work that strengthens the fabric of our community. Be well. Andrea J. Ogunwumi Chief Executive Officer Economic Opportunity Program, Inc. 3 About EOP The Economic Opportunity Program, Inc. of Chemung County (EOP) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) agency that envisions a future where all people of our community live with dignity and have the opportunity and ability to live economically productive and satisfying lives. To achieve this vision, EOP Elmira Neighborhood House - corner of Fifth and provides services that create positive change in individuals, families and our Dickinson Streets ca. 1930. community; and encourages and facilitates participation by all people who can help make our vision a reality. EOP was established in 1965 as the legislatively designated Community Action Agency to define and design programs that best meet the needs of low- income people in Chemung and Schuyler counties in the Southern Tier of New York State. Annually, more than 5,000 children, youth, and families benefit in some way from the agency’s services. The agency’s operating budget of $8.6 Million has come primarily from local, state, and federal government grants. The site of EOP’s current home at Fifth and Baldwin Streets is the site of Ernie Davis Family Center - Fifth Street (Dickinson now stops at Fifth). the original Elmira Neighborhood House and is adjacent to the Ernie Davis Community Center (which had evolved from the Elmira Neighborhood House a.k.a. “The Nabe”). The Community Center and the main office building, the “Ernie Davis Family Center,” are both named for beloved local hero, Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner. Current programming at EOP includes: Birth to Five School Readiness Program (Early Head Start and Head Start), which builds real and lasting foundations that support children and families (Continued on page 9) Ernie Davis Family Center - Corner of Baldwin and Fifth Streets. 350 East Fifth Street, Elmira NY 14901 (Ernie Davis Community Center) 607-737-7502 CFJP Culinary Arts Training Program CFJP BistrO Free 10-week training in all aspects of food preparation Tuesday-Thursday 9:00am-3:00pm National ServSafe Certification Friday 9:00am-6:00pm Applications accepted continuously Breakfast (all day!), Lunch, Fish Fry Classes held year-round! Call 607-734-6174 We’d love to cater your next special event! 4 group of studio musicians who backed a multitude of hits). Keeping the deep funk flow- PaulPaul BrownBrown ing behind Brown and his renowned guests are bassist Roberto Vally, drummer Gordon Campbell, keyboardist Marco Basci and per- cussion great Lenny Castro. The jam begins with the album’s first single, a brash and brassy, deeply funky and decidedly bluesy twist on The Crusaders’ soul-jazz classic “Put It Where You Want It,” which Brown affectionately refers to as “Wes Montgomery meets Larry Carlton.” Brown brings the soulful coolness of decades of work with some of urban jazz’s top saxmen to “Sexy Thang,” an infec- tious and hypnotic, slyly slinky and “greasy” he term “Renaissance Man” dates back to the time gem featuring the powerful dual punch of Brown and saxman of Leonardo da Vinci, who was described as a man Darren Rahn. After “Hush,” another Crusaders influenced tune, of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inven- the guitarist gets into the core of the album that features collabo- tive imagination.” Los Angeles born-and-raised Paul Brown’s rations with fellow urban jazz guitar luminaries Chris Standring, four decade journey through the worlds of pop, R&B and jazz is Peter White, Marc Antoine and Chuck Loeb. the modern day musical equivalent. Starting as a drummer, he The trippy, vibey and dreamily atmospheric “Picadilly Circus” became an engineer for R&B legends Diana Ross, Luther was inspired by Brown and Standring’s recent exploration of Vandross, and Aretha Franklin before evolving into a two-time London while in town to perform dual shows at Pizza Express. It’s Grammy winning urban jazz producer with over 60 #1 radio got Standring’s echoes and effects-laden flow and a colorful swirl airplay hits, and finally a popular guitarist, artist and performer in of his snappy acoustic and Brown’s dynamic electric guitar. Like- his own right. wise, “Riverwalk” finds Brown working his way into Antoine’s laid In the remarkable 12 years since he released his debut album back sensual Mediterranean aesthetic. “Well Alright” finds Brown Up Front, Brown has released six albums, including three that hit old schooling it Memphis style, creating a simmering, brassy the Top Ten on the Billboard Albums chart, scored countless hit Wilson Pickett/Sam & Dave vibe behind the rich vocals of Don singles, and done thousands of performances across the US and Bryant (who penned the classic “I Can’t Stand The Rain”). This internationally, including gigs with fellow guitarists Larry Carlton, tune is a great showcase for the dynamic interaction between Chris Standring and current labelmate Marc Antoine (with whom Brown and the keys of “Brother Paul Brown.” he recorded the 2009 album Foreign Exchange). And yet, as he The guitar madness continues with the lush, easy flowing releases One Way Back, his third collection on Woodward “Take Flight,” which finds Brown riffing off the balmy magic of Avenue Records, Brown freely admits he is still trying to find Peter White, creating the perfect intertwining of graceful acoustic himself as an artist. sweetness and gritty electric energy. The final “guitar summit” is “Even after all these years,” he says, “I truly feel that I’m the whimsical, yet sophisticated bluesy jazz tune “Rear View continuing to evolve as a guitarist, and I’m glad the way the genre Mirror,” which blends the trademark styles of Brown (on is right now allows artists to follow the deeper passions of their Telecaster) and Chuck Loeb (jazz guitar) into a soulful vibe. musical hearts more than ever before. With each album, I feel like Brown’s prowess as a melodic pop songwriter comes to fresh light I’ve grown as a musician and artist, and I’m a far different player on the gently flowing title track, a ballad featuring acoustic guitar than I was when I recorded Up Front. When that came out, I had harmonies behind his lead voice on the electric. Closing the never performed a live show as a guitarist. You can practice an eclectic collection, he showcases his deepening chops as a blues instrument in a room all you want, but until you play live, you singer on the ultra-romantic, Bonnie Raitt influenced gospel blues don’t acquire a full level of skills. All of that gigging has helped me folk tune “Heaven,” which features “Brother Paul Brown” on keys grow technically, and playing what I have imagined in my head is a and Kenny Gradney from Little Feat on bass. lot easier than it used to be. The freedom and confidence I have It would be easy at this point for Paul Brown to rest on his gained from those translates to my personal development and accolades and crank out some new easy flowing hits on par with allows me to bring fresh new ideas into the studio.” the many he’s done in the past. Yet his deeper exploration of While a lot of attention will be paid to his impressive all-star blues influences, attention to every last dynamic sonic detail, guest list on One Way Back – Darren Rahn, Peter White, Chuck willingness to spar with his guitarist peers and desire to update a Loeb, Marc Antoine, Chris Standring and former Hi Records classic we all know in a fresh and wildly funky new way let us know songwriter Don Bryant – Brown’s secret musical weapon here is that he’s got a lot more to say.