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13th St. Petersburg Jazz Festival
February 23, 2022 - February 27, 2022
The nonprofit EMIT is presenting the 13th St. Petersburg Jazz Festival February 23-27. We had to take a hiatus last year due to the pandemic.
The annual jazz festival is produced by the nonprofit EMIT in partnership this year with the Palladium Theater. EMIT has presented adventurous music and educational activities in St. Petersburg since 1995.
The lineup is:
2/23 – O Som Do Jazz with Andrea Moraes Manson and special guests Rafael Pereira & Jose Valentino Ruiz. This Brazilian jazz group plays a diverse range of music including samba, Bossa Nova, MPB and Baião. Rafael tours with Janelle Monae and others.
2/24 – Best of Blue Note with the James Suggs/Austin Vickrey Sextet
This group revisits great grooving Bebop standards from the Blue Note record label from Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, Lee Morgan and others.
2/25 – RADIOjazzHEAD a unique project directed by Pete Carney “jazzifying” the music of Radiohead and other 90s superbands with a 12-piece ensemble.
2/26 – Singer Emma Hedrick and the Helios Jazz OrchestraRising jazz star Emma Hedrick joins the 18-piece jazz orchestra in a concert of big band favorites.
2/27 – Chris Dingman TrioMystic music from New York vibraphonist/composer Chris Dingman with stellar Miami bassist Carlo DeRosa and L.A. drummer Rodolfo Zuniga.
These concerts will be held in the large Hough Hall at the Palladium Theater and will be socially distanced. Admission is $25 available from www.mypalladium.org