Event Details
Ukulele Workshop with Kelle Jolly |
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| When: |
Feb 18, 2019 4:00 pm |
| Where: |
The Fret Shop 309 Jordan Lane Huntsville, AL 35805 |
| Contact: | (256) 430-4729 |
| Details: |  Kelle Jolly, a jazz vocalist and ukulele player from Knoxville, Tennessee, will be in town to run a workshop and perform for us. Vocalist Kelle Jolly, "The Tennessee Ukulele Lady", is one of East Tennessee's most celebrated jazz musicians. She and her husband, saxophonist Will Boyd, were the 2015 MLK Art Award recipients in Knoxville. She is the founder of Ukesphere of Knoxville, a ukulele group for all ages. As an ambassador of jazz, she has traveled to Muroran, Japan as Knoxville's Sister City representative with her husband, saxophonist Will Boyd, at various jazz festivals and events. Kelle Jolly is the host of Knoxville's newest radio show on WUOT 91.9FM (www.wuot.org), Jazz Jam with Kelle Jolly, an hour-long show that celebrates great local, national and international singers of jazz. She is also the founder of the Women in Jazz Jam Festival (www.womeninjazzjamfestival.com), which will take place in March. She was one of the ukulele artists to teach at last years KYuke Festival in Kentucky. $15 at the door. 4:00- 5:30 We can all go next door afterwards for a group strum and some Mexican food. Bring 20 song sheets to share. |