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COLTRANE YOUTH JAZZ WORKSHOP

COLTRANE YOUTH JAZZ WORKSHOP

It’s a tradition!  The group that opens the John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival each year is the Coltrane Youth Jazz Workshop.  They will perform on Saturday, Sept.1, 2018 to kick of the 8th Annual Coltrane Jazz Festival in High Point, NC. The...
Jackie Venson

Jackie Venson

Jackie Venson started playing the guitar when she was a senior at Berklee College of Music.  Until then she had studied and trained as a classical pianist. Forming her own blues band in 2013, Venson has become a rising star for her vocal and playing ability as well as...
Michelle Coltrane

Michelle Coltrane

Vocalist Michelle Coltrane is the daughter of  jazz pianist Alice Coltrane who advanced the harp as an instrument of the genre and broke new ground by doing so.   Her step-father was saxophone, composer and jazz icon, John Coltrane. The example her parents set as...
Jazzmeia Horn

Jazzmeia Horn

Jazzmeia Horn, the strongest vocalist to emerge on the jazz scene in some time, will perform Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018 for the 8th Annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival. Horn’s 2017 debut release A SOCIAL CALL was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for...
Dianne Reeves

Dianne Reeves

Jazz vocalist Dianne Reeves will headline the 8th Annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. The five-time Grammy Award winner is considered the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world as a result of her vocal prowess and her...
Gregory Porter

Gregory Porter

Critically acclaimed, jazz singer-songwriter Gregory Porter will bring his mesmerizing vocal prowess  to High Point, NC when he headlines the 8th Annual John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018. One of the most successful jazz...