Svetlana and The New York Jazz Collective, an award-winning New York-based jazz group, performed “An Evening of Jazz and Swing” on Wednesday in the Triumvirate Theatre in Kenai.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, the day before the concert, the band put on a jazz workshop in the Soldotna Public Library. The event included a short performance by the band, an open Q&A session, and a jam session for local musicians.<\/p>\n
About 40 people attended the workshop, during which the band took questions and described jazz as a language to be learned in a way not dissimilar to how someone learns to speak English, according to KDLL organizers. Several members of the audience joined the band on piano and on bass for a song during the workshop as well.<\/p>\n
The show drew a crowd to the theater where Svetlana and her band lit up the stage and performed a mix of original works — many written for the group’s current tour — and a couple of recognizable tunes.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s concert doubled as a fundraiser for KDLL, one of the many public radio stations in the state and nation grappling with Congress’s recent recission of federal funding for public media.<\/p>\n
KDLL Board President Shaylon Cochran said this week that the station was eager to bring a new sound and a new experience to Kenai listeners.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited that we can get some new music in from the outside to the central peninsula and offer folks a chance to hear something that they might not ordinarily have a chance to hear and be exposed to,” he said. “From KDLL’s perspective, that’s sort of what we’re all about.”<\/p>\n
Jonas Oyoumick is interning with the Peninsula Clarion through the Kenaitze Indian Tribe Daggeyi internship program.<\/em> Clarion reporter Jake Dye contributed to this story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The visiting musicians also hosted a a jazz workshop in the Soldotna Public Library. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":90591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,811],"tags":[213,215,56],"class_list":["post-90590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-top-news","tag-arts","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-local-news"],"yoast_head":"\n