Delaware Charitable Music to present Fall Into Jazz Sept. 17

Delaware Charitable Music Inc. recently announced some additions to the schedule surrounding performances for the Fall Into Jazz event which will begin at 8 p.m., Friday, Sept. 17, at the Schwartz Center for the Arts in Dover. Delaware Charitable Music will also focus on the involvement of young performers as part of this project.

To augment its mission to support quality music education and performances that attempt to preserve American music traditions, Delaware Charitable Music (DCM) uses the profits from various events to support music education advocacy initiatives. Thanks to the fundraising support of Bethany Blues Restaurant in Lewes, Delaware Charitable Music will once again produce a Music in the Schools program.

Acclaimed saxophonist and concert headliner Kim Waters will be doing a clinic for students at H.O. Brittingham Elementary School in Milton on the day of the concert. Money for this special school appearance was raised from a recent concert held at Bethany Blues featuring the 2010 International Blues Challenge winner, Grady Champion.

DCM President Joe Baione also helps to extend the mission of DCM thru his position as director of bands for Lake Forest Central Elementary School and Lake Forest High School.

In 2009 The Queen’s Royal College Foundation in Trinidad and Tobago and The Lake Forest School District formed an exchange program. The purpose of this exchange program is to provide the Trinidad and Tobago students with a study of two of the original forms of American music, jazz and blues, and to introduce Lake Forest students to the music of soca along with knowledge of steel drums. Baione traveled to Trinidad and Tobago last year to begin the exchange program. He taught interactive workshops in the four regions of Trinidad and Tobago instructing the students in the basics of jazz and blues.

This September, Natasha Joseph will come to the United States to work with the students of Lake Forest in an interactive workshop that concentrates on steel drums and the music of calypso. She will also perform at the Fall Into Jazz event at the Schwartz Center.

Fall Into Jazz will also offer young musicians the opportunity to perform as part of this wonderful evening of music and has also invited over 30 students to attend the concert for free. Prior to the concert, DCM will host a meet the artists cocktail party for sponsors and premium ticket holders featuring three young piano players.

Asher Garrett Denburg is Delaware Music Educators’ 2009 and 2010 All-State No. 1 baritone and jazz pianist, and has sung with Opera Delaware for six years. A distinguished honor student at Wilmington’s Cab Calloway School of the Arts, he dreams of attending Juilliard to become a symphony orchestra conductor.

Also performing will be Nicolo and Bernadette Bautista, the 11-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter of Dr. Basil Bautista, a retired plastic surgeon, pianist, composer and founder and executive director of the Child Help Foundation. Bautista taught the talented children to play the piano beginning at an early age for both.

Headlining this event will be Waters, one of the top jazz instrumentalists in the world. Opening for Waters will be Baione’s Caribbean Connection performing original and standard jazz/blues compositions that have an Afro-Caribbean influence. Vibraphonist Baione and his rhythm section will be joined by renowned trumpeter Gerald Chavis.

For information, call 302-672-7022 or visit demusic.org.

Tickets may be purchased online at schwartzcenter.com or by calling the box office at the Schwartz Center at 800-778-5078.