Berkshires Jazz is pleased to announce the lineup for the Pittsfield CityJazz Festival…our 20th! The festival runs from April 17-25, and includes an open jam session, our annual jazz crawl, the Jazz Prodigy concert (all free events), and two headline events. The headline weekends are a veritable profile of women in jazz, with Georgia Heers’s tribute to Billie Holiday (already sold out), and the capstone concert featuring two of the jazz world’s young lionesses: saxophonist, composer and singer Grace Kelly and jazz/rock crossover vocalist Veronica Swift. They will appear on the same bill with the University of Connecticut Jazz Ensemble, in a never-to-be-repeated blowout.
04/17 at 7:00 pm: Jazz Jam at Hot Plate Brewing
04/18 at 7:30pm: Georgia Heers at Barrington Stage/Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
04/22 at 7:00 pm: Jazz Prodigy concert at Berkshire Athenaeum
04/24: Jazz Crawl (restaurants and lounges throughout Pittsfield’s Upstreet Cultural District)
04/25 at 7:00 pm: Grace Kelly & Veronica Swift at Barrington Stage