Frederick Jazz Festival with headliner Terence Blanchard Comes to the Weinberg Center

FREDERICK, Md. - Oct. 6, 2021 - PRLog -- The Frederick Jazz Festival returns for its 4th year with headliner Terence Blanchard featuring The E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, Maryland on Saturday, November 6th, 2021 at 1:00 PM.

Tickets start at $60 and may be purchased online at WeinbergCenter.org, by calling the box office at 301-600-2828, or in person at 20 West Patrick Street.

Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard headlines this year's Frederick Jazz Festival. From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke, about Blanchard's hometown of New Orleans during the devastation from Hurricane Katrina to the epic Malcolm X; and the latest Lee film, Da 5 Bloods which was released by Netflix in 2020, Blanchard has interwoven melodies that created strong backdrops to human stories. Blanchard received an Oscar nomination for his original score for Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman.  He won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for writing Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil) a track from BlacKkKlansman. With his current quintet The E-Collective, featured on the score to BlacKkKlansman with a 96-piece orchestra, Blanchard delivered "a soaring, seething, luxuriant score," according to The New York Times. Most recently he broke barriers at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, becoming the first Black composer whose opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones, began performances in September 2021 at the New York institution.

In addition to Terence Blanchard, this year's lineup includes internationally recognized female vocalist Tracy Hamlin, contemporary pianist, composer, and producer Anthony Walker & Friends, featured soloist and drummer (ret.) with the U.S. Army Blues Big Band and recording artist Steve Fidyk Parlour Project, and, on trumpet, award winning arranger and music educator Mike Kamuf Little Big Band.

A complete listing of artists and performers scheduled for the 2021-2022 season can be found at https://weinbergcenter.org/

ABOUT THE WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS
The Weinberg Center for the Arts is one of the region's premier performing arts presenters, offering film, music, dance, theater, and family-focused programming. Located in the historic Tivoli movie theater in downtown Frederick Maryland, the Weinberg Center strives to ensure that the arts remain accessible and affordable to local and regional audiences alike. Weinberg Center events are made possible with major support from the City of Frederick, the Maryland State Arts Council, Plamondon Hospitality Partners, and other corporate and individual donors.