SWOJO Benefit Concert & Silent Auction
May 13, 2005
7:30p-10:30p
Mount Baker Community Club
2811 Mount Rainier Drive South, Seattle
Tickets are available now for $25 each. Ensure your seat at this fundraising event today by sending a check for your tickets to SWOJO at (tickets will be mailed to you):
Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
945 NW 57th Street
Seattle WA 98107
For more information or to donate items for the silent auction, please call Carolyn at 206-675-8934. If you cannot attend this year's benefit event but would like to make a tax-deductible donation to SWOJO, you can mail your contribution to the above address.
About the artists:
Kelley Johnson www.kelleyjohnson.com
Currently an instructor at both Cornish College of the Arts and Music Works Northwest, Kelley tours occasionally and can also be heard regularly at Seattle's finest jazz venues. An improvising singer who values lyrics, Kelley is known for her tasteful, understated phrasing and relentless swing. Johnson has been awarded “Best Northwest Jazz Vocalist" by Earshot Jazz and the Northwest jazz community. During 2003-2004, Kelley placed 1st in the Worldwide Jazzconnect Jazz Vocal Competition, recorded and released the CD recording “Live at Birdland" featuring Ingrid Jensen, and was chosen by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts to tour Russia and Central Asia for six weeks with her quartet under the auspices of the U.S. State Department.
SWOJO www.swojo.org
The Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra (SWOJO) showcases the performance skills of leading female jazz artists in the Pacific Northwest. Our repertoire features many originals by Pacific Northwest composers and arrangers such as Nelda Swiggett, Jill Townsend, Al Farlow, Vern Sielert, Carmen Staaf, and SWOJO's Musical Director, Dr. Daniel Barry. SWOJO recently performed at Experience Music Project's Jazz in January series to a standing-room-only crowd and will appear later this year as part of Earshot's Art of Jazz at SAM series and at the Kirkland Performance Center's 2005 Concert Series. SWOJO's debut OA2 Records release, Dreamcatcher, appears on Jim Wilke's list of Best Northwest Jazz CDs of 2004 and was reviewed by Howard Mandel (President of the Jazz Journalists Association) in the March issue of Jazziz magazine (link to review: http://oa2records.com/oa2/reviews/review.php?ReviewID=58 ).
Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra
www.swojo.org
[email protected]
206-675-8934
“...a thoroughly professional, bold, glossy, and swinging sound..."
Howard Mandel, Jazziz magazine
“...sophisticated big band jazz expertly performed."
Jack Bowers, Big Band Editor, All About Jazz
“SWOJO is tremendous, powerful and inspiring! ...Wow, burning, swingin' and all of those other jazz words."
Gabriel Alegria, President of the La Asociación Internacional Jazz Perú
For more information contact All About Jazz.
