Provincetown Jazz Festival
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The Annual Provincetown Jazz Festival
was founded by Bart Weismanin 2005 and is the first three-day Jazz
Festival on Cape Cod
.
The festival is held in Provincetown, which is the Oldest Continuous Arts
Colony
in the United States
, and a portion of the proceeds are donated to worthy causes on Cape Cod.
Jazz musicians who have performed include:
Joe Muranyi
, Greg Abate
, Afro Bob Alliance,
Shawnn Monteiro (Vocals), Suede
(Vocals, Trumpet & Guitar), Stephanie Jordan (Vocals),
Lea DeLaria
(Vocals), Zoe Lewis
(Vocals), Lou Colombo (Trumpet), Jim Robitaille (Guitar), Janette Mason (Piano), Mary Ann McSweeney (Bass), Bruce Abbott (Sax), Matt Richard (Piano), John Harrison III (Piano), Dave Zinno (Bass), Chris Rathbun (Bass), Chris Poudrier (Drums), Bart Weisman (Drums), Ann Austin (Vocals), Lori Colombo (Vocals), Carol Wyeth (Vocals), and many more.
was founded by Bart Weismanin 2005 and is the first three-day Jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
Festival on Cape Cod
Cape Cod
Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...
.
The festival is held in Provincetown, which is the Oldest Continuous Arts
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Colony
Colony
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in the United States
United States
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, and a portion of the proceeds are donated to worthy causes on Cape Cod.
Jazz musicians who have performed include:
Joe Muranyi
Joe Muranyi
Joseph P. "Joe" Muranyi is an American jazz clarinetist, producer and critic.Muranyi studied with Lennie Tristano but is primarily interested in early jazz styles such as Dixieland and swing. After playing in an United States Army Air Forces band, he moved to New York City in the 1950s and...
, Greg Abate
Greg Abate
Greg Abate is a Jazz saxophonist, flautist, composer, and arranger. He grew up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. In the fifth grade he began to play clarinet....
, Afro Bob Alliance,
Shawnn Monteiro (Vocals), Suede
Suede (singer)
Suede is an American pop, cabaret and jazz singer. She was born in Nyack, New York and went to high school in Severna Park, Maryland. She began playing music in high school, getting bar gigs before she even graduated. She lived in Baltimore for the majority of the 80's and became a fixture at many...
(Vocals, Trumpet & Guitar), Stephanie Jordan (Vocals),
Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLaria
Lea DeLaria is an American comedienne, actress, and jazz musician. The "famously controversial" DeLaria was "the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier" with her 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show....
(Vocals), Zoe Lewis
Zoë Lewis
Zoë Lewis is an English folk musician from Brighton.She started out as a member of the London Latin jazz ten-piece band Avanti, but has more recently been active primarily as a solo performer and as the title member of Zoe Lewis and her Rubber Band and currently resides in Provincetown,...
(Vocals), Lou Colombo (Trumpet), Jim Robitaille (Guitar), Janette Mason (Piano), Mary Ann McSweeney (Bass), Bruce Abbott (Sax), Matt Richard (Piano), John Harrison III (Piano), Dave Zinno (Bass), Chris Rathbun (Bass), Chris Poudrier (Drums), Bart Weisman (Drums), Ann Austin (Vocals), Lori Colombo (Vocals), Carol Wyeth (Vocals), and many more.