Morris Museum Back To Hosting Deck Concerts
For the fifth year in a row, The Morris Museum—Six Normandy Heights Road, Morristown—will host outdoor concerts—“Jazz On The Back Deck” and “Lots Of Strings Music Festival”—starting tomorrow through September. Imagine listening to the sounds of beautiful jazz and classical music as you watch the sun set from the elevated parking deck. Patrons bring lawn chairs and their own refreshments as doors open at 6:00 for the 7:30 concerts. In covering past year’s events, the New York Times said this series made it “joyous to be in Jersey.”
· Amani features vocalist Stephen Fuller in tribute to Tony Bennett tomorrow.
· PUBLIQuartet—three violins plus stand-up bass—will sway with the kind of chamber music that will make you swoon in June on the 20th.
· “Jazz Goes To The Movies: Lights, Camera, Swing!” Vocalist Cydney Halpin—backed by sax, flute, guitar, piano, bass and drums—sings Hollywood classics June 22.
· Vocalist Antoinette Montague from Newark celebrates the 125th birthday of Duke Ellington and the 100th birthday of fellow Newarker Sarah Vaughan June 27. Montague is also CEO of the non-profit entity known as Jazz Women To The Rescue that provides instruments to young people in need.
· San Francisco’s Telegraph Quartet has been performing Beethoven and Dvorak for over a decade. On July 11, they will add contemporary master Kenji Bunch to their repertoire.
· Evan Sherman from Milburn will lead his 16-piece Big Band on material dating back 100 years July 13.
· Cleveland’s Aizuri Quartet will perform Shubert, Mendelssohn and material dating back eight centuries July 25.
· The Harlem Quartet will fuse jazz with classical August 1.
· The Erinys Quartet come all the way from Finland to perform Bartok’s “String Quartet #3” and Beethoven’s “String Quartet #12 in E-Flat Major, Opus #127” August 3.
· Laura Anglade will sing the songs of Streisand, Piaf, Vaughan and Fitzgerald in French and English August 10.
· Cellist Ani Kalayjian will perform works by Brahms and Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, among others, August 15.
· Sextet The Fumos, from New York City, will funk it up with Kool & The Gang, Maceo Parker, Average White Band, BT Express, Crusaders, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Jeff Beck and The Band August 17.
· New York City vocalist Vanisha Gould will sing Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Carmen McRae and Ella Fitzgerald August 24.
· Trumpeter Mike Davis and The New Wonders will take you back to The Roaring ‘20s by swinging hard September 14
For further information and tickets, visit https://morrismuseum.org/outdoor-concerts-on-the-back-deck
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