El Golfo
8739 Flower Avenue
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El Golfo @ 8739 Flower Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20901
The Jazz Academy of Music, Inc.
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Thursday, Aug 24 - Iva Ambush & Ella Gahnt with the Wes Biles Trio
7:00-9:30pm
$20/$25 At the Door
Summer Series $55/3 shows
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“Carrying The Torch for Jazz”
Come and join Ella Gahnt and Iva Jean Ambush as they travel through their memories exploring the songs by the singers that paved the way and ignited the spark of Jazz that still grows in both of these lovely Ladies. Relax and enjoy as they showcase their passion for this artform and continue to carry the Torch for Jazz.
ELLA GAHNT is a Philly-based Jazz vocalist who has been dubbed “Philly’s Class Act” by local media and fans. She has “wowed” audiences at major venues and Jazz Festivals in the area for many years and is the featured vocalist performing regularly with her own Trio and with several other Bands in the Tri-State area. On March 28, 2019, Ella was honored by the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and Creative Economy at City Hall where she became a recipient of the “2019 Philly Celebrates Jazz Award.” Ella recently did a wonderful concert at Washington DC’s acclaimed Westminster Presbyterian Church hosted by Dick Smith where she received several standing ovations for her performance. Ella’s 3 CDs – “Immaculate Union,” “By Request” and “Third Stage Of Elegance” are in rotation on WRTI-FM. “Third Stage of Elegance” showcases her songwriting abilities. Ella is working on a 4th CD along with pianist extraordinaire Aaron Graves which should be released very soon. Look out for Ella Gahnt – she’s traveling at the speed of swing!
Iva Ambush, the scat lady, is a jazz vocalist from Frederick, Maryland. She has performed at Birdland (NYC), Blues Alley, the DC Jazz Festival, Keystone Korner - Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival, Alice's Jazz and Cultural Society, Le Duc des Lombards, Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club, International Association of Jazz Educators Conferences, Frederick - In The Streets Festival, the Billy Strayhorn 100th Birthday Celebration, WPFW 89.3 Live @ 5, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, JazzNight @Westminster DC, Amherst Fine Arts Center, Ritz Carlton Pentagon, Frederick's 4th of July Celebration, the East Coast Jazz Festival, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and more. Iva enjoys exploring the concepts of jazz phrasing and rhythms with the help of jazz legends, Sheila Jordan, Dr. Horace Boyer, and Ronnie Wells. Some of her other influences include Dr. Frederick Tillis, Prof. Charles Ellison and the late Dr. Billy Taylor and Dr. Bro. Yusef Lateef.
She has a family full of Jazz Musicians which include on the maternal side, late trumpeter Lester Bowie, the late Byron Bowie, Defunkt's founder Joe Bowie, guitarist Jonathan Townes and on the paternal side, bassist Scott Ambush and pianist Allen Ambush. There are a host of others too numerous to name.
ALL SALES ARE FINAL! NO REFUNDS!
We are so proud to announce the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival Summer Series produced by the Jazz Academy of Music and Sponsored by the Toretsky Family! This event will take place at El Golfo Restaurant in Silver Spring, which features great music, food, drink and free parking. This series is a fundraiser for the MAJF
El Golfo
8739 Flower Avenue
The Jazz Academy of Music Inc, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, established in 2002, is a manifestation of a longtime dream of Paul Carr, its Music Director, to extend the music education opportunities afforded him, as an inner city youth, to others. The Jazz Academy produces the Mid-Atlantic Jazz Festival which is an annual "Real Jazz" music program with activities under one roof ... A CRUISE ON LAND!
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