Charlie Brown Jazz Piano Christmas (Early Show)

90 Lafayette Street,Salem MA 01970

17 December, 2021

Description

A Charlie Brown Jazz Piano concert in a loft studio -- multi media with music and projected movie! A wonderful holiday experience. Back by popular demand, Aidan Scrimgeour, a graduate of Salem Public Schools, leads a jazz piano trio in a performance of Vince Guiraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." The event is hosted by the Salem Education Foundation and proceeds help support our grants to the Salem schools. To pay by check, please contact SEF. The trio features Matt Estabrook on upright bass and PJ Holaday on drums. Aidan Scrimgeour is a musician, composer and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Growing up in Salem, Aidan was inspired by the energy and talent of the local North Shore music scene and started performing locally at restaurants and jazz clubs as a teenager. After spending a couple years in the Contemporary Improvisation Program at New England Conservatory studying piano performance, he graduated with a B.A. in Performance & Representation from Tufts University. Along with Roy Nathanson of the Jazz Passengers, he co-founded the 5pm Porch Concerts Program, an educational and performance collective that emerged from their daily concerts throughout the pandemic. His other projects include Pumpkin Bread, a Boston-based acoustic band, which has been featured on "A Celtic Sojourn" on WGBH and Lissy & the Jacks, a Brooklyn-based honky-tonk group currently working on their first album of old country classics and original songs. Aidan performs regularly with a variety of groups in New York and co-leads the Multigenerational Playing for the Light Big Band, an ensemble that performs original music and poetry composed by Brooklyn teens. We'll have beverages and light snacks but please feel free to BYOB and food! Safety Procedures: Bring proof of vaccination OR wear a mask. Thanks! Founded in 1994, The Salem Education Foundation (SEF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting community involvement and financial investment in all the public schools of Salem, Massachusetts. We began as an organization to fund grants for teachers and today we continue that initiative as well as many others, both individually and in collaboration with other groups. www.salemeducationfoundation.org