Baystreet Brassworks August 8, 2007

Beginning with a New Orleans style Dixieland parade, Bay Street Brassworks, with percussion, take a musical journey that is sure to delight audiences every where. Jazz, America's own musical art form is introduced through a high-energy concert featuring ragtime, blues, Dixieland and swing. Take a tour of American jazz that features Baltimore's own Eubie Blake and Billie Holiday, as well as Joplin, Ellington, W.C. Handy, Glenn Miller, Dave Brubeck and many more. Students are introduced first-hand to improvisation, instrumentation and syncopation, explained using music that will leave them clapping, tapping and finger snapping.