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SUMMARY:SWING REMIX | VIRTUAL DANCE | Queen Esther & Her Royal Quartet
DESCRIPTION:SWING REMIX VIRTUAL DANCE\nNAACP BENEFIT honoring Black Lives Matter\nFRIDAY JUNE 26\, 2020\n6:00PM EST – 8:00PM EST\nLocation: ZOOM portal\nLINE UP:\n5:45PM ZOOM ACCESS OPENS (links will be posted on Tuesday)\n6:00PM INTRODUCTIONS\n6:10PM DANCE WORKSHOP: Lord of the Swing CHESTER WITMORE\n6:35PM DANCE DEMONSTRATION: Chester Whitmore & Special Guests TBA\n6:45PM LIVE MUSIC: QUEEN ESTHER & Her Royal Quartet featuring JOHN DOKES\n7:15PM DEEJAY: TOMO TANAKA\n7:30PM LIVE MUSIC:QUEEN ESTHER & Her Royal Quartet featuring JOHN DOKES\n7:50PM CLOSING REMARKS / DONATION OPPORTUNITY\nQueen Esther & Her Royal Quartet — featuring John Dokes\nCharles Goold\, drums\nHilliard Greene\, double bass\nPatience Higgins\, tenor sax\nSharp Radway\, piano \nFrom 1935 – 1939\, as the rest of the world waltzed their way through The Great Depression or lindy hopped to big bands\, Miss Holiday recorded over 120 sides with some of the best soloists of the decade\, including Teddy Wilson\, Benny Goodman\, Roy Eldridge\, Lester Young\, Buck Clayton\, Cozy Cole\, Jo Jones\, Artie Shaw\, Benny Morton and many\, many more. \nIt was John Hammond – record producer\, civil rights activist\, music critic and aristocrat – who co-organized the very first “sing-swing” session in July 1935 with Teddy Wilson as bandleader when Miss Holiday was merely 20 years old. Armed with her new recording contract for Brunswick Records\, their task was to record pop tunes in the new “swing” style for the burgeoning jukebox market. With Miss Holiday as instrumentalist on equal footing with the legendary musicians that accompanied her\, what they created set the template for jazz vocalists\, small combos and swing music\, and created an immutable body of work. Queen Esther and Her Royal Quartet will present a few of these timeless classics for your listening and dancing pleasure. \n———————. \n\n\n \n  \n\nYOUTUBE LINK\nJOHN DOKES at LINCOLN CENTER \n\n  \n  \n \n  \nYOUTUBE LINK\nQUEEN ESTHER I’VE GOT THE CRAZY BLUES \n  \nQUEEN ESTHER BIOGRAPHY \n\nImported from South Carolina’s Lowcountry and the ATL respectively\, vocalist\, songwriter\, musician\, public speaker and producer Queen Esther resides in Harlem and continues to perform internationally with her mentor harmelodic guitar icon James “Blood” Ulmer in various projects — including a recent European tour with his iconic free jazz group Odyssey — as she forges her own sonic path. \n\nDescribed by Vanity Fair as “…a brutal\, original\, explosive singer\,” recent highlights include a TED Talk about the erasure of African-Americans in country and bluegrass\, headlining at Dizzy’s in Lincoln Center with her project Queen Esther sings Billie Holiday: The Lost Classics and a performance of original Black Americana at the 2018 Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago\, Ill. \nJOHN DOKES \n“. . . Dokes sets his after hours sights on being this generation’s standard bearer for classic jazz vocal. Already a known quantity for his work with George Gee’s orchestra\, Dokes does this magnificent job of taking you back to the day without this being a set of manqué-ing around. Swinging and warm throughout\, you will find yourself wondering who this is from back then when it finally hits you this is now. Note perfect throughout\, this is a wonderful return to class and sophistication that just can’t be beat. Hot stuff.” \n— Chris Spector\, Midwest Record \n\n\nFUNDRAISER DETAILS: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund \nThe NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund\, Inc. is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. Through litigation\, advocacy\, and public education\, LDF seeks structural changes to expand democracy\, eliminate disparities\, and achieve racial justice in a society that fulfills the promise of equality for all Americans. LDF also defends the gains and protections won over the past 75 years of civil rights struggle and works to improve the quality and diversity of judicial and executive appointments. LDF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization \nWE are accepting Donations for this Virtual Concert/Party two ways – Thru EVENT BRITE or PAYPAL \nEVENT BRITE\nEvent Brite Link \nPAYPAL\nPaypal.me/Lindyland \nYour donations will be split between the talent and the FUND. We will release the results on the Monday following this event to give everyone ample time to contribute. Thanks again for your participation! \n \n\nZOOM ACCESS | DETAILS\nSwing Remix is inviting you to this party throught the ZOOM PLATFORM. \nTopic: Swing Remix Virtual Party | NAACP BENEFIT\nTime: Jun 26\, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) \nJOIN ZOOM PARTY\nhttps://zoom.us/j/93633692415?pwd=TXhSZy8veTRvUXBDSUYrREZzNEVWUT09 \nMeeting ID: 936 3369 2415\nPassword: 300009\nOne tap mobile\n+19292056099\,\,93633692415#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,300009# US (New York)\n+13126266799\,\,93633692415#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,300009# US (Chicago) \nDial by your location\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\nMeeting ID: 936 3369 2415\nPassword: 300009\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abwPmjPjwp \n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:ZOOM APP\, Online\, New York\, United States
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