Kauai’s oldest and largest jazz festival, the eighth annual All Angels Jazz Festival, will celebrate the music of New Orleans at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 4364 Hardy St. at Umi in Lihue this weekend. More than 1,000
Kauai’s oldest and largest jazz festival, the eighth annual All Angels Jazz Festival, will celebrate the music of New Orleans at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, 4364 Hardy St. at Umi in Lihue this weekend. More than 1,000 music lovers will gather from all over the world for the critically-acclaimed, three-day festival.
The Friday concert, A History of Jazz: Part I, will be at 7 p.m. and includes opening act, The Dean Taba Quartet, featuring Andy Suzuki, Nick Manson and Abe Lagrimas, Jr. Headlining will be Matt Lemmler’s New Orleans Jazz Revival Band with Jason Marsalis, Rex Gregory, Kim Prevost and Bill Solley.
Saturday’s concert is at 7 p.m., A History of Jazz: Part II, and includes opening act Swing Shift with Dennis McGraw, David Braun, Laine Griffith, Hank Curtis, Darryl Miyasato and Marty Leonard. Headlining will be Matt Lemmler’s New Orleans Jazz Revival Band with Jason Marsalis, Rex Gregory, Kim Prevost, and Bill Solley.
Tickets for each concert are $35 in advance and $40 at the door and can be purchased online at www.stmichaels-kauai.org or at the church office.
The Sunday Jazz Masses is at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. feature an All-Star Jazz Band, a choir of Kauai’s finest singers directed by Randy Leonard, and extraordinary soloists.
The Jazz Mass theme is “Resurrection, Revival, and Rebirth: A Tribute to New Orleans.”
The jazz masses are free and open to the public.
Information: 245-3796 or go to www.stmichaels-kauai.org
