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Bed-Stuy | Featured Event
Sep 27
Discover a JazzFest and Fishfry at a Brooklyn Brownstone
Presenting 09/27/2019 – MC ERIC LEMONS Bassist, RICHARD CLEMENTS Piano, PATIENCE HIGGINS Sax/Flute, DAMON DUEWHITE Drums
9/28-Featuring SYLVIA CUENCA Percussionist w/ MC ERIC LEMONS Bassist, YOICHI UZEKI Pianist
Enjoy back-in-the-day Salon Jazz. A historic cultural event
8:00 PM Mix and Mingle
8:30 PM Concert
Refreshments Included
Late Night Fish fry
BYOBB
Open Mic
Info @ 917 704 9237
Discover a local JazzFest and Fish Fry the restored 1800’s Victorian Brownstone building in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn present an acoustic sound room concert series that offers a fish fry buffet. The feel of being in your own home with your shoes off, with an authentic jazz vibe. Imagine retreating back to a different time and spend the evening in an intimate setting. Experience the enjoyment of live Jazz Concert, a Southern Fish Fry Buffet and Open Mic that will delight your palette.
During the 1930, perhaps even earlier, one didn’t have to go to Manhattan for the Jazz scene Brooklyn had one of it’s own. Bedford Stuyvesant had one of the largest Jazz communities in Nee York City. It held many venues that housed jazz greats like Thelonius Monk, Randy Weston, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Hank Mobley and others. All eventually changed, and jazz club fizzled out in favor of a different generation of music.
Debbie McClain, owner of Sankofa Aban Bed and Breakfast seeks to revive the local jazz scene of the past along with her partner Eric Lemons an accomplished string musician values authenticity and selectiveness, when deciding who to feature and when.
No bells, whistles or amps. This is Salon Jazz: intimate, classic, acoustic concerts plain and simple every Friday and Saturday night in THE ROOM
You’re invited to a magical evening of music as Debbie and Eric takes you behind the scene of this undercover jazz venue. You can get there early to meet the artists, and other guests as you take a seat for a jazz fest experience of a lifetime.
being presented with some of today’s best Jazz Artist.
DebbieMc never set out to own a BnB, but once she did magic happened. A hairstylist by trade when her grandparents 1939 home fell into her lap to save and maintain. Much bad energy once filled the property, but she knew that music would cleanse this 19th century home.
Debbie McClain once a long time piano student with many years spent in and around the business of musicals entertainment, is one of 6 generations, from a family of music lovers. Eric Lemons started playing in his own band from age 14. World renowned and recorded with some of the jazz greats.
Eric and Debbie loves sharing the culture historical side of BKLYN, NYC.
Continuing the history of the neighborhood, a group of jazz locals and broadway greats like Blue Note recording artist James Spaulding, Pianist Lafayette Harris, Trombonist/ Euphonist Kiane Zawadi and vocalist Keisha St. James aside actress/singer Boncella Lewis have gather to connect over music in a tradition that has diminished, but clearly not lost. A lifestyle from different time.