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July 9, 2014
For Immediate Release
Hot Jazz / Cool Garden with Bria Skonberg Quartet
The uber talented Bria Skonberg brings her quartet
featuring Sean Cronin, Base; Dalton Ridenhour, Piano and Darrian
Douglas, drums to Louis Armstrong House Museum on Saturday, July 19th at
2:00 pm. This concert is the second installment in the museum’s
signature Hot Jazz / Cool Garden Summer Concert Series which has become a
hot ticket in NYC’s cool summer concert scene.
Tickets are $18 in advance and include red beans ‘n rice,
sweet tea and a complimentary museum pass. Tickets can be purchased
online at LouisArmstrongHouse.org. The final concert in this series is
on Saturday, August 16th featuring Gordon Au & the Grand Street Stompers.
Bria Skonberg 2014
About Bria Skonberg & the Bria Skonberg Quartet
The Bria Skonberg Quartet is a powerhouse combination of
emerging talent in the New York jazz scene. The Wall Street Journal
proclaimed leader Bria Skonberg is "poised to be one of the most
versatile and imposing musicians of her generation." This year she
earned a Jazz Journalists’ Association nomination for “Up and Coming
Jazz Artist of The Year”, is included in DOWNBEAT Magazine’s Rising Star
Critics‘ Poll, and was honored a NY Bistro Award for "Outstanding Jazz
Artist". Best known for her knowledge of classic jazz and instigative
nature, she has created a style rooted in hot jazz, world percussion,
soul and modern effects for her new album "Into Your Own" (Random Act
Records 2014).
For the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s Hot Jazz / Cool
Garden concert, Bria has assembled a group of unique musicians that are
proficient in the roots of jazz with 21st century sensibilities. Bassist
Sean Cronin, a free spirited musical mastermind, has been a part of all
of Bria's original projects since 2007; He leads his own psychedelic
jazz/fusion experience named "Very Good" on both coasts. Pianist Dalton
Ridenhour, a native of St. James, Missouri, has been a featured artist
at ragtime festivals since his early teens. He gained his Masters'
degree at the prestigious Berklee College Of Music and the Eastman
School of Music, recorded his first solo album on Rivermont Records and
is a first call pianist in New York with the likes of Dan Levinson.
Rounding out the group on drums is Darrian Douglas, originally from
Jackson, Mississippi. Darrian moved to New Orleans in 2008 where he took
over the drum chair in the Ellis Marsalis' Quartet for the next four
years. During that time he also played with Irvin Mayfield, Germain
Bazzle, Topsy Chapman, and recorded with his own group "The Session."
Bria first met Darrian at the Ascona Jazz Festival in Switzerland; since
his 2012 arrival in New York he has performed with Wynton Marsalis,
Victor Goines, Joe Temperley and more. Bria performs most often in New
York on Wednesdays at Birdland with the Louis Armstrong Eternity Band
directed by David Ostwald. She is an active advocate for music
education and co-producer of the New York Hot Jazz Festival.
About the Louis Armstrong House Museum
The Louis Armstrong House Museum is located at 34-56 107th Street in Corona, Queens, New York. The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday/Sunday from 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm. Travel directions and more atLouisArmstrongHouse.org or 718.478.8274.
Currently on exhibit: 20 Years of Louis Armstrong Archives now through October 6th and is free with museum admission.
Parking is available in the neighborhood and the museum is accessible by subway via the 7 train.
Thanks to the vision and funding of the Louis Armstrong
Educational Foundation, the Louis Armstrong House Museum welcomes
visitors from all over the world, six days per week, 52 weeks per year.
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