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Dayna Stephens & Billy Childs Duo at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Paul Mahder Gallery

Courtesy of Gerry Sanders | Posted on August 29, 2017

Where

Paul Mahder Gallery
Healdsburg Jazz Festival

222 Healdsburg Ave.
Healdsburg, CA
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When

Sat, October 7, 2017
7:30 pm

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Musicians

Dayna Stephens
saxophone, tenor

About

This is a rare opportunity to hear these two amazing musicians in a duo concert. Dayna Stephens is not a stranger to Healdsburg, but Billy Childs will be performing here for the first time. Stephens and Childs both have new releases, on Gratitude and Rebirth respectively. They will be featuring original compositions from both releases as well as playing songs from Horace Silver, Hogie Carmichael and others.

A three-time Grammy winner, pianist Billy Childs has emerged as one of the foremost American composers of his era, perhaps the most distinctly American composer since Aaron Copland – for like Copland, Childs has successfully married the musical products of his heritage with the Western neoclassical traditions of the twentieth century in a powerful symbiosis of style, range, and dynamism....

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