May 14, 2016 8:00 PM Kendrah and Shamika Work in Progress Concert at The Kimmel Center

Join our Jazz Residency artists for the opportunity to experience a work in progress! After months of workshops and preparation, each artist will present an intimate session, showcasing their unfinished collaborative projects in SEI Innovation Studio. Through these works in progress, audiences will have an opportunity to experience the reality and rawness of the creative process.

Project: The presence of Jazz and Faith of the African American experience

Project Description: 'This three prong work will seek to acknowledge the presence of jazz and faith of the African American experience to music. We are writing this body of work as a means to acknowledge contributions of African Americans to the jazz and faith experience. Many composers from Mary Lou Williams to Duke Ellington acknowledge the presence of faith in their music and composed as well as performed within these idioms. We seek to further this meeting of musical genres of faith and jazz to broaden and deepen the definition of what jazz music can be.'

SEI Innovation Studio

Inside the Kimmel Center
2 levels below ground floor
300 S Broad St
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Admission is free, but you must have a reservation.