Posted Date: 21st April, 2010   Time: 7:51 pm

About The Festival
The South Delta Jazz Festival (Tuesday July 6 through to Saturday July 10th, 2010) is a week-long music workshop as well as a concert series.

Workshop
This is an exciting opportunity for music students of all ages to learn about jazz and improvisation from musicians and educators active in the field.. Students spend most of their time playing music in small groups and learning jazz repertoire and improvisation. Classes in jazz history and theory, and master classes with visiting guest artists are also integrated into the program of instruction.

The instructional component of the Workshop is open to young people and adults aged 12 and up. We have had a very diverse range of students attend over the past few years from high school students to retired seniors. The interesting mix of people makes for a rich learning environment in which we build strong community connections and the unique opportunity for young students to work with adult students creates a rich learning environment that is extremely beneficial especially to the younger students. Students in the past few years have come mainly from Delta, with many coming from various other communities around the lower mainland and even as far away as the BC interior. .

Concerts
There are daily noon-hour concerts and an evening concert featuring local and international guest artists performing with the Jazz Workshop faculty. The concerts are open to the public. The noon hour performances at the community centre are free of charge. There is also an evening Jam session hosted at Petra’s Coffee house in Tsawwassen.

Faculty – 2010 Festival.

Stephen Robb, woodwinds/piano (DCMS Director, workshop co-director)
Dr. Jared Burrows, guitar, bass (Vancouver) (workshop co-director)
Robert Kohler, bass (New Orleans, USA)
Stan Taylor, drums (Vancouver)
Brad Muirhead, trombone (Vancouver)

Guest artists for 2010 – concerts and workshops:
Len Aruliah, saxophone (London UK)
Alan Mathesons, trumpet (Vancouver)

Support the South Delta Jazz Festival

The Festival, now in its seventh year has been largely self-supporting through tuition fees and concert ticket sales.
Tuition fees alone can only support a limited number of faculty members and guest artists, which restricts the scope of what the workshop can offer
Sponsorship dollars help us to:

• Keep tuition fees down
• Offer scholarships to talented students who lack the financial means to attend
• Expand our concert series and cover artist fees
• Expand our advertising and promotional efforts and allow us to communicate the important work we are doing to the community
• Keep concert ticket prices low and accessible for the general public and offer free concerts (outdoor and other public venues) at a number of locations throughout Delta.
• Add new full or part-time faculty members to help cope with increasing enrolments
  Why Support the South Delta Jazz Festival?
• Enrich and enliven the cultural life of Delta through the development of cultural events at a professional level.
• Help our young people develop and grow musically, socially, and intellectually.
• Associate your company’s with a positive, visible performing arts community event
• Build our community pride and spirit through public concerts; help us create a professional concert series in your community
  The Future:
• The Delta Jazz Workshop began six years ago and is growing every year.
• We are working towards expanding the Jazz Festival component of the event as the educational component grows.

About the Delta Community Music School
The Festival is a program of the Delta Community Music School. Founded in 1981, the school’s mandate is to encourage, foster, advance and promote the growth and quality of, and provide education in music and the performing arts through the involvement, inspiration and co-operation of professional artists as performers, teachers and general participants in the cultural development of the community.