Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, 52nd Christmas Concert, Music by Mark Harvey & Duke Ellington, Joyful Jazz

BOSTON - Nov. 27, 2024 - PRLog -- The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its 52^nd Annual Christmas Concert at the beautiful and spacious Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St, Boston MA 02116, featuring the premiere of Mark Harvey's latest composition Peace, Good Will to All, inspired by Charles Ives and marking the 150^th anniversary of his birth.  Ives is one of the chief influences in Mark Harvey's composing career. The concert will also celebrate another major force in Harvey's musical life, Duke Ellington, in Duke's 125^th birthday year.  Aardvark will showcase vocalist Grace Hughes in Ellington's Sacred Concert pieces Tell Me It's the Truth and Come Sunday.  Jazz-infused carols will include What Child Is This, and the band will present an Aardvark perennial, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, performed on the very first Aardvark Christmas concert in 1973.

Tickets are $20 at the door.  Proceeds will support the Poor People's United Fund, an organization that works to alleviate the suffering of poor and homeless people in Greater Boston.

Aardvark gave its inaugural concert on December 23, 1973, at the Church of the Covenant in Boston as a benefit for the Chelsea Fire Fund.  Every year since then, Aardvark has held a Christmas concert to support a deserving cause.   Esteemed guests who have joined the Aardvark Christmas concerts include Sheila Jordan, Howard McGhee, Semenya McCord, Robert Honeysucker, Ron Gill, Jack Powers, and others.  "The healing power of music is with us throughout the year," says Mark Harvey, "but the Christmas concert is a special occasion for helping those in need and lifting our hearts in the spirit of peace, justice and good will toward all."   https://www.aardvarkjazz.com/

Aardvark is: Peter H. Bloom, Phil Scarff, Chris Rakowski, Dan Zupan, Daniel Ian Smith/saxophones and woodwinds; Taylor Ho Bynum, K.C. Dunbar, Jeanne Snodgrass/trumpets; Bob Pilkington, Jay Keyser/trombones; Bill Lowe/bass trombone, tuba; Richard Nelson/guitar; Jesse Williams/string bass; Harry Wellott/drums; Grace Hughes, vocalist; and Mark Harvey, music director.  The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra is managed by Americas Musicworks, Rebecca DeLamotte, director.