Annual Jazz & Wine Fundraiser

Our Annual Jazz & Wine Fundraising event is scheduled for Friday, April 17, 2015 at 6:30pm. 

This year, our fundraiser will welcome back and feature Syracuse, New York native Nicole Mitchell.
Nicole Mitchell is a creative flutist, composer, bandleader and educator. As the founder of Black Earth Ensemble, Black Earth Strings, Ice Crystal and Sonic Projections, Mitchell has been repeatedly awarded by DownBeat Critics Poll and the Jazz Journalists Association as “Top Flutist of the Year” for the last four years (2010-2014). Mitchell’s music celebrates African American culture while reaching across genres and integrating new ideas with moments in the legacy of jazz, gospel, experimentalism, pop and African percussion through albums such as Black Unstoppable (Delmark, 2007), Awakening (Delmark, 2011), and Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler (Firehouse 12, 2008), which received commissioning support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works.

For more information on Nicole Mitchell

Part of our evening will feature NYS wineries.  Confirmed so far:

Casa Larga Vineyards
Stone Age Winery
Cherry Knoll Farm, LLC