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NYS Fair (Day 11): Up in Arms
Monday, September 5th, 2016J.A.M.S. Funk Fest 2k16
Monday, September 5th, 2016Week in Review
Sunday, September 4th, 2016
Gerald Veasley (left) and Walter Beasley jammed at the New York State Fair on Saturday night.
This was a week of returns here in Syracuse: The return of Nuf Said (Jazz in the City); the return football season; the return of Dr. Marc Lamont Hill to speak at SU, but maybe our favorite was the return of bassist Gerald Veasley. Veasley came to throw down for the FunkFest 2k16 (New York State Fair) with a band of musical titans, including Chuck Loeb and Walter Beasley.
Beasley came down from Boston, while Loeb made his way to Syracuse from Spain.
Veasley was last in town for the Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival in Clinton Square in 2013.
Beasley will play the Howard Theater in DC next month, and Loeb played the Low Country Jazz Festival in SC today.
Vogue
Sunday, September 4th, 2016
Jewelry dangles
NYS Fair (Day 10): Showing Some Love
Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
The more time we log covering the Cuse’ music scene, the more we experience a special spirit of collaboration recognition. Tonight musician and columnist Reggie Seigler (left), founder of JAMS (Syracuse’s Joined Artists Musicians and Singers’ ) presented a community award to Syracuse Jazz Fest Producer Frank Malfitano. The ceremony was during the intermission for the FunkFest 2K16 show.
The Doctor Will See You Now (and prescribe a new paradigm)
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
TV host, author and public intellectual and Morehouse professor Marc Lamont Hill gave the keynote for yesterdays Race in Our Communities Forum at Syracuse University.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, social justice warrior and host of “VH1 Live,” came to Syracuse loaded for bear yesterday, but he mixed in some humorous mixed metaphors to make the medicine go down easy. He talked passionately about the need for equitable justice under the law and thinking outside the imperfect system that currently exists (in cities and on campuses).
Hill asked the crowd at the Schine Student Center imagine a freedom dream,a world where healing and rehabilitation follow justice, and where we readily identify, and eventually diminish state violence propagated against vulnerable groups, stereotypes and marginalized people.
After Hill’s keynote there was a panel discussion, which included Keith J. Bybee, Ph.D., Tony Callisto,Bea González, Benjamin Jealous and Jordan Shelby West. The moderator was Dr. Keith Alford of SU’s Falk College.
Kids on the Runway
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
Jr. High School
Here are some of the photos from the Pan-African Village “Back to School” Fashion show, coordinated by Katishma Grey. The clothes are from Macy’s at Destiny USA.
Middle School
Elementary
Jazz in the City (East): Chill in the Air
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
Ioana Vintu and Nuf Said were a great fit for the back yard-like setting at Le Moyne Plaza last night. Their return to the Cuse on a cool September evening also provided a fitting diminuendo for the outdoor jazz season.
NYS Fair: Celebrating Six Nations Day
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
Perry Ground, Native American Storyteller
NYS Fair (Day 8): Going Dutch
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
Natalie La Rose, the Amsterdam-born singer and member of the Flo Rida Camp, breezed through her set on a picture-perfect Syracuse September Day.