Groups featured in this year’s Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival range from The Excelsior Band, shown, to bluesman Jamell Richardson. (Mike Kittrell/AL.com)
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Mobile’s Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival, like other music festivals and arts events, is going virtual for 2020.
Free sessions will be streamed on the festival’s Facebook page and a 2020 GCEH Jazz Festival Live channel on YouTube.
An “Evening of Poetry” featuring spoken-word performances will be streamed from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, July 30. The event is dedicated to the late Tessica “Lady Tess” Williams; Huggy Bear da Poet will host.
A concert being streamed from 5 p.m to 8 p.m. Friday, July 31, will feature The Excelsior Band, Karmilla Ali & Friends and The Cedric Brooks Project. Music resumes from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1, with a shift into the blues: Scheduled acts include Keep It Live, the Ric McNaughton Band and Jamell Richardson.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/GulfCoastEthnicandHeritageJazzFestival.