Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Los Day Trippers: Beatles music with a Latin beat. This band is not to be missed! Also great Mexican food.
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Los Day Trippers will perform at this fundraiser house party event along with opera singers from ROMEZ3arts. The event will raise money to support these and other arts groups. No admission, but suggested donation of $20.
I'll be playing jazz standards and Straight-Ahead Uncompromising Cocktail Music with trumpeter/vocalist Donald Tillery.
ART East Exhibition
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Queen Anne's County Centre for the Arts, 206 S. Commerce St, Centreville, MD
Solo guitar performance to accompany the opening of this Centre for the Arts exhibit.
An evening of ensembles from the Jazz Band Master Class program. I'll be playing a short set with sax, piano, valve trombone, bass, drums. Specific time TBA.
I'll be playing with a jazz sextet at a private affair in downtown DC.
NPR Celebrates Black History Month with an annual performance featuring some of the many current and former staffers from the network. I'll be holding forth with a trio with Felix Contreras and Eddie Eatmon. Lots of other performers.
I'll be accompanying the romantic dinner with some solo jazz guitar accompaniment. I'll leave out the heavy metal and rap for this engagement, but I will be playing "My Funny Valentine," "My Romance," and other tunes of that ilk. azzurrorehoboth.com
I'll be providing music in a trio with bassist Eddie Eatmon and percussionists Felix Contreras and Tim Rodriguez. phillipscollection.org
Small Works Exhibition Opening
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Queen Anne's County Centre for the Arts, 206 S. Commerce St., Centreville, MD
I'll be providing solo jazz guitar accompaniment to the 8th annual exhibit and auction of small works of art: photos, paintings, sculpture, etc. Free admission. queenannescountyarts.com
Last chance to kiss this bad old year behind and revel in the new one coming around the bend. Food, booze, music...what else do you need? The Van Williamson Trio with Bob Abbott and Dean Haemel will be performing from 9 PM-midnight. Also dancing to the rocknroll band in the ballroom.
Eastern Shore Land Conservancy annual fundraiser gala
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Chateau Bu De Winery, 237 Bohemia Manor Rd., Chesapeake City, MD
The Van Williamson Trio will perform at the fundraiser gala. Contact ESLC if you're interested in attending.
The Cultured Pearl
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Cultured Pearl Restaurant and Sushi Bar, 301 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach, DE
The Van Williamson Trio, foremost purveyors of Straight-Ahead Uncompromising Cocktail Music, does just that. Also funk, blues, bossa nova, etc. With Tom Anthony & Mike McShane
The Van Williamson Trio returns to the former Chez la Mer, now reincarnated as an Italian Restaurant, for a whopping helping of Straight-Ahead Uncompromising Cocktail Music. With Wes Crawford and Russ Rodgers.
The Van Williamson Trio returns to the Back Porch for another round of specially chosen jazz tunes for the annual jazz brunch. Reservations are recommended. Featuring Russ Rodgers and Wes Crawford.
The Van Williamson Trio with Russ Rodgers and Wes Crawford returns to the Wine Bar for a scintillating selection of Straight-Ahead Uncompromising Cocktail Music. Reservations are recommended.
Rehoboth Jazz Festival
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Dos Locos Stonegrill & Tex-Mex Restaurant, 208 Rehoboth Ave., Rehoboth Beach DE
The Van Williamson Trio w/ Russ Rodgers and Wes Crawford. Straight-Ahead Uncompromising Cocktail Music Tacos for your dining and dancing pleasure.
The Van Williamson Trio with Russ Rodgers and Wes Crawford plays takeout jazz, Straight Ahead and Uncompromising Cocktail Music.
The Van Williamson Trio with Russ Rodgers and Wes Crawford plays jazz and eats burritos.
Solo guitar accompanying the fine food emanating from the kitchen at this popular long-time eatery. Or is it the other way around?