2022 Ellensburg Music Fest

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Ellensburg Music Festival Board of Directors MICAH BRUNNER: Executive Committee, Facilities, Promotions

AMY BURKE: Promotions Chair, Volunteers, Fundraising

ROB FRASER: Promotions, Music

GREG LYMAN: Music

JORGE RODRIGUEZ: Facilities

DON SOLBERG: Executive Committee, Treasurer, Fundraising, Facilities

JOY SOLBERG: Fundraising

LAURA STANLEY: Music, Facilities, Promotions

TONY SWARTZ: President & Director

NORM WALLEN: Music, Education

LINDA WARREN: Volunteer Coordinator

Welcome to our festival

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lways the last weekend in July, Jazz in the Valley has brought summer fun to Historic Downtown Ellensburg, Washington. With our new name of Ellensburg Music Festival, we are back for the 24th year. Our 2022 lineup is full of varied music genres such as funk, blues, latin, jazz, soul, swing, and more! Our music lineup is 6-11pm on Friday 7/29 and Saturday 7/30, as well as 11 to 3 on Saturday.

In addition to enjoying the wide range of music, festival fans can sip a variety of wines at Gallery One’s Wine in the Valley event Saturday 7/30 between 12 and 5pm. This event does require a separate ticket. Take time to also enjoy the downtown Clymer Museum of Art, shop the Farmers Market on Saturday, visit the Kittitas County Historical Museum, and check out the many interesting shops and restaurants around town.

Ellensburg Music Festival is a festival that is organized and promoted by an all-volunteer board of directors and is supported by many community volunteers and contributions. Thank you specifically to our two major sponsors this year: Heritage Bank and Washington State Employee Credit Union.

We hope you will enjoy the music, dancing, and friendly atmosphere of Ellensburg. It’s a great way to spend a summer weekend in a town that is filled with music, dancing and the good time vibes that are part of this festival.

Ellensburg Music Festival Board

2022 Festival Passes Festival passes are $60 online for full festival weekend until July 29.

After July 29 the price will rise to $70.

A Festival Pass gives you admission to all venues (children 12 and under are free).

Friday: (6 p.m.- 11 p.m.)

Saturday: (11 a.m. - 11 p.m.)

All are welcome to attend. Come early to be sure you have a seat.

Important: All tickets sales are final (non-refundable, non-replaceable and cannot be exchanged). We are not responsible for lost tickets. Artists and venues are subject to change.

How to purchase tickets:  Online: Order tickets until noon,

Friday, July 29 at ellensburgmusicfestival. com  Purchase from lobby area of Hotel Windrow starting at 4 p.m. on July 29 and July 30

2022 Corporate Sponsors

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Skyler Floe Trio

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kyler Floe was born and raised north of Seattle in Lynnwood, Washington and began playing trumpet at age 10. While attending Mountlake Terrace High School, Skyler played in its acclaimed jazz band. As a Senior, Skyler was a participant at the Essentially Ellington Jazz Festival, where Wynton Marsalis awarded him the Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Award.

Inspired by all genres of trumpet playing including classical and jazz, Skyler moved to Ellensburg, WA to study trumpet technique with pedagogue, John Harbaugh at Central Washington University, where he earned his undergraduate degrees in classical performance and music education.

Throughout his studies at CWU, Skyler made regular appearances at the National Trumpet Competition in both classical and jazz divisions as well as the International Trumpet Guild.

While attending CWU, Skyler regularly performed around the PNW as a leader of his own jazz quintet Hot Minute, and spent four years as a member of CWU’s critically acclaimed Jazz Band 1 where in 2015 they won the Next Generation Jazz Festival earning them a performance at the 2015 Monterey Jazz

Skyler Floe Trio Jazz

When: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Friday, July 29 Where: Pearl Bar and Grill Festival. Skyler was also active in the classical scene and performed regularly as an orchestral trumpet player for the Wenatchee Symphony and Yakima Symphony Orchestras.

After finishing his studies at CWU, Skyler spent two years studying at the Institute of Jazz in Graz, Austria under the tutelage of Jim Rotondi. While in Graz, Skyler performed and recorded with musicians from all over the world in Austria’s lively jazz scene. Doing so led to the creation of Skyler’s project The Chordless Quartet, which performs Skyler’s original compositions and features some of the best up-and-coming jazz musicians on the European scene.

Skyler completed his MM in Jazz Studies at Indiana University where he accepted a position as an associate instructor at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. In 2019, Skyler was one of five trumpet players selected to compete in the prestigious Carmine Caruso

International Jazz Trumpet Competition and now resides in NYC as an active freelancing trumpet player. In October of 2021, Skyler released his debut album Abstraction which features all original compositions.musicians represent a

wide variety of players from the Ellensburg community and university, educators and local professionals.

It’s that combination of different styles and backgrounds that blend together to make a tremendous sound.

Bourbon and Bellows Bourbon and Bellows New Orleans

When: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Friday, July 29 Where: Clymer Museum

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magine Tom Waits and Django Reinhardt start jamming late one night at a dive bar in the French quarter of New Orleans after too much whiskey. That’s the general feel you’ll get from Bourbon and Bellows, with their tight harmonies, fiery fiddle solos, and a wicked sense of humor.

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Greta Matassa Quartet Greta Matassa Quartet Jazz

When: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: Hotel Windrow Rooftop Bar

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n the Pacific Northwest, where she built her career, Greta Matassa wins wide acclaim; 8 times, the readers of Earshot, the Seattle jazz magazine, have voted her the best jazz vocalist in the Northwest, including 2021!

She was inducted into the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame in 2014. Jim Wilke, the Seattle jazz maven and host of the syndicated “Jazz After Hours” radio program, praises her versatility. “She has a fearlessness in approaching material,” Wilke says, “that makes her like an instrumentalist in a jam session.”

Bassist and producer John Clayton says “One of the best jazz singers we

have to boast about these days.”

Her 40 year career has been a whirlwind of exciting opportunities and experiences. Over the last 20 years she has become established as one of the greatest jazz singers of her time.

Working with top jazz musicians in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

In 2016 She was featured with bassist John Clayton’s group in a centennial tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.

Her decision to start teaching was probably her greatest contribution to the future of the genre she loves so much. For the last 20 years Greta has become one of the most unique and respected educators in the field today.

Offering individual lessons and mentorships as well as establishing loyal student bases from Seattle to Japan, From Alaska to Kauai, from Chicago to New York.

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Wine in the Valley

Saturday Activities

Try and buy premiere wines from the Pacific Northwest!

All within walking distance

Purchase online or in person.

WINE TASTING 408 N Pearl St in historic downtown Ellensburg gallery-one.org 509-925-2670

Tasting Event

July 30, 12-5pm

five tastings :: wine glass :: live music

GALLERY ONE VISUAL ARTS CENTER, 408 N. Pearl St. Wine tastings from 12 pm – 5 pm. $20 admission fee per person. www.gallery-one.org.

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Do good while drinking great wines at the annual Wine in the Valley wine tasting event in the heart of downtown Ellensburg. Join local nonprofit arts organization, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, for a survey of the Pacific Northwest’s best wineries. For $20 you can try five distinct wines, receive a commemorative wine glass, and support this great local organization. Wines are available for purchase tax-free as part of this benefit. Additional scrips are available for purchase. Participating wineries include Walla Walla Vintners, College Cellars, Su Lei Cellars, Saviah Cellars, Airfield Winery, Dunham Cellars, Palencia Winery, Bartholomew Winery, Grosgrain Vineyards, Mercer Estates, and Fortuity Cellars. Gallery One will have artwork on display for purchase.

AMAZING GRAZING

Check out the fresh produce as well as arts and crafts at the Ellensburg Farmers Market. Located on Fourth Avenue between Ruby and Pearl Streets, the Market is open from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. www.kcfarmersmarket.com

PLACES OF INTEREST

View local history exhibits at the Kittitas County Historical Museum on 3rd Avenue. Open from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and admission is free. www.kchm.org

FRIDAY JULY 29, 2022

TICKETS

6 P.M. - 9 P.M.

45TH STREET BRASS BRASS Hotel Windrow Rooftop Bar

GOOD AT ALL VENUES

PRE-SALE

$60

GOOD AT ALL VENUES

HOTEL WINDROW Day of at 4 p.m. in the lobby

$70

Purchase online at ellensburgmusicfestival.com

Ticket and Lodging Information ellensburgmusicfestival.com or /ellensburgjazzinthevalley on facebook.

6 P.M. - 9 P.M.

BOURBON AND BELLOWS NEW ORLEANS Clymer Museum

6 PM - 9 P.M.

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TRIO 77 JAZZ Gallery One Art Gallery

7 P.M. - 10 P.M.

BROHAMM FUNK The Red Pickle Main Stage

Hotel Windrow Clymer Museum Gallery One Pearl Bar and Grill Gard Vinters Wind Bar Red Pickle First Methodist Church

EMERALD CITY THROWDOWN R&B, SOUL, ROCK, FUNK The Red Pickle Brunch

MICHAEL POWERS JAZZ TRIO 77 JAZZ Hotel Windrow

12 P.M. - 5 P.M.

6 P.M. - 9 P.M.

GRETA MATASSA QUARTET JAZZ Hotel Windrow Rooftop Bar

6 P.M. - 9 P.M.

DOWN LOW SEXTET JAZZ Clymer Museum

6 P.M. - 9 P.M.

FREUDIAN SLURP GROOVE First Methodist Church

7 P.M. - 10 P.M.

BRETT BENTON BLUES The Pearl Bar and Grill

7 P.M. - 10 P.M.

MICHAEL POWERS JAZZ Gallery One Art Gallery

7 P.M. - 10 P.M.

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MEL AND DRE’ SOUL Gard Vintners Wine Bar N. RUBY ST.

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12 P.M. - 3 P.M.

$20 ticket via Gallery One directly

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Gard Vintners sidewalk

WINETASTING AT GALLERY ONE

SKYLER FLOE TRIO JAZZ The Pearl Bar and Grill

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CHRIS HULL/HARRY PIERCE REUNION JAZZ

7 P.M. - 10 P.M.

8 P.M. - 11 P.M.

6TH AVE

11 A.M. - 2 P.M.

12 P.M. - 3 P.M.

DUENDE LIBRE LATIN Gard Vinters Wine Bar

VENUES

JULY 30, 2022

ELLENSBURG BIG BAND SWING First Methodist Church 6 P.M. - 6:30 P.M. swing dance lesson 6:30 P.M. - 9 P.M. full Big Band

7 P.M. - 10 P.M. Tickets are limited and non-refundable Artists & venues are subject to change.

Venues are welcome to all ages.

SATURDAY

8 P.M. - 11 P.M.

DOCTORFUNK FUNK The Red Pickle Main Stage

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BroHamM

years of local and international performing experience and is a veteran of the Seattle fire department.

James Pautler plays the keyboard and lends his voice to the background. He was classically trained at the age of 5 and attended the Cornish institute in the late 70’s focusing on jazz performance and arranging.

Gary Tobin plats guitar and sings background vocals for BroHamM. He began his musical journey at the age of 6 with formal lessons with the violin which grew into self-taught guitar at the age of 11.

The final member of BroHamM is Bailey Richards, where he plays the bass guitar. he holds down the bottom end that makes BroHamM pulse with rhythm.

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n drums, percussion, and lead vocals, Larry Hammond. He makes up one third of the Hammond brothers and has had a long and successful career as a international percussionist, vocalist, and actor. He has worked with numerous renowned artists, including Sunny Stitt, Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Curtis Fuller, Nat Adderly, Eric Marienthal, Kenny G, Carolyn Franklin, Eddie Clearwater, Larry Correll, Stephanie Mills, Atlantic Star, and Martha Reeves and The Platters.

Another member of the Hammond Brothers is Curtis where he plays harmonica and percussion and also provides lead vocals for BroHamM. Curtis has 40 years of experience internationally as a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist. He is heavily influenced by funk, jazz, r&b, blues and soul, his favorite artists include Earth, Wind, & Fire, Stevie Wonder,

BroHamM funk Gap Band, AWB, Graham Central Station, Miles Davis, Bob Marley.

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mond Brothers, Len also provides lead vocals and well and playing the drums and percussion. he has 40

When: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Friday, July 29 Where: Red Pickle Main Stage

45th Street Brass

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t looks like a brass band, but it doesn’t quite sound like you’d expect. Mix in a little jazz, funk, some soul and hip hop, and what comes out is a powerful horn and groove driven sonic experience that will make you shake your booty.

Over the years, 45th St Brass has been made up of some of the best horn section players in the northwest. Fronted by the “electrifying vocals” of Annie J, 45th St Brass has a wholly unique sound and broad appeal.

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45th Street Brass Brass Band When: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Friday, July 29 Where: Hotel Windrow Rooftop Bar They are Trevor Parrish on trumpet, Dave Marriott on trombone, Peter Daniel on saxophones, Nelson Bell on sousaphone, Matthew Goodin on drums and Annie Jantzer singing up front.

DoctorfunK

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octorfunK formed in 1995 with a standard and quality that quickly established them as one of the Northwest’s premier acts over the past 20 years.

Their modern take on classic R&B, funk, and soul makes them a powerful force in the industry and one of the best horn bands in the Pacific Northwest.

The five-piece horn section that plays both original and cover music in the style of Tower of Power, James Brown, Earth, Wind and Fire and

DoctorfunK Funk

When: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: The Red Pickle Main Stage Stevie Wonder’s band. The funk and soul sound they produce was heavily influenced by rock and jazz standards and even a little bit of the hip hop sound.

DoctorfunK will be playing on Saturday night at The Red Pickle main stage starting at 8 p.m.

Freudian Slurp

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Emerald City Throwdown Emerald City Throwdown R&B, Soul, Rock, Funk

When: 12 p.m. - 3 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: The Red Pickle Brunch

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merald City Throwdown, from Seattle WA, is explosive, spectacular and the epitome of funk! Check them out with some special brunch options from The Red Pickle.

Down Low Sextet Down Low Sextet Jazz

When: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: Clymer Museum

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ver wonder what the ‘Low End’ of the band is doing down there? Now you can find out! Down Low Sextet of Northwest native musicians will play classic jazz standards and arrangements!

he Hughes Brothers, Dylan (bass,older) and Ian (guitar,taller) grew up in the middle of North Seattle’s competitive student jazz scene but they were mostly discouraged by all that noise and came up playing grunge and prog rock with garage bands instead. A love of instrumental music and the local jam session scene sprung from this. The brothers met current band members through these sessions and were inspired by the thriving instrumental music scene in Seattle to find their own sound.

“Suave, melodious jazz funk that should appeal to fans of Chick Corea, Grant Green, Donald Byrd, and Ben Sidran.” -Dave Segal with “The Stranger”

“The musicianship and interplay of Freudian Slurp are impeccably tight, as are the arrangements and compositions the band comes through with, but they aren’t so complex and challenging that you can’t just sit back in your chair and bob your head along to their songs” – Northwest Music Scene (Get it?) shows a new direction for the band from it’s predecessor Edible Complex. After some lineup changes, and years of playing shows and festivals around the Northwest, the group’s sound has battle-hardened. The groove is tighter, the sounds are fuller. Slurp has both embraced a fully instrumental sound, and unleashed their early Grunge influences to create something much less restrained.

Freudian Slurp Groove

When: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: First Methodist Church

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ocalist Melany Peterson grew up listening to Roberta Flack, Dionne Warwick, Jerry Butler, Isaac Hayes, and Aretha Franklin.

At the age of 12, Melany’s fledgling interest in singing took flight inside her hometown church in Charleston, SC where she would often be caught alone playing the piano and singing her favorite tunes. Melany’s singing took off, professionally, in 1982 with the Charleston Actors Theatre Society. First sharing her gift of song at the Garden Theatre in Charleston, SC., she then made a name for herself singing with the band Sea Breeze and by joining a gospel group, “Voices of Deliverance” which performed traditional spirituals and psalms.

Today, this “Song Bird of the South” is the key vocalist of the Mel Peterson Collective, The Mel and Dre’ Show, Blush and The Mel Peterson Gospel Ensemble which performs a fusion of Contemporary-pop, Jazz standards, Gospel, and R & B classics.

Dr. T. André Feagin serves as Director of Bands in the Department of Music at Central Washington University. In this position, he guides the educational and artistic vision of the band area and serves as administrator of the band program that includes the Wind

Ensemble, Symphonic Winds, Symphonic Band, Wildcat Marching Band, and Basketball Band. In addition, Dr. Feagin guides the graduate wind band conducting program and serves as the conductor of the Wind Ensemble, the preeminent wind band at CWU. He serves as a member of the Leadership Cohort within the College of Arts and Humanities as well as a member of the diversity and inclusivity committee for the college. Within the department of music, he serves as a member of the music education and scholarship/ recruitment committees. In addition, he serves as co-chair of the P.A.C.T. committee, a group tasked with collaborating with faculty and students in the creation and dissemination of standards for climate excellence. Under his direction, the CWU Wind Ensemble has been invited as a featured ensemble at the 2022 CBDNA Western/Northwestern Division Conference.

Mel and Dre’ Soul

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Duende Libre

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n inspired power trio, Duende Libre features longtime collaborators Alex Chadsey (piano, keyboards & compositions), Farko Dosumov (electric bass), and Jeff “Bongo” Busch (drums & percussion).

They are frequently joined by Frank Anderson, a dynamic and engaging vocalist, drummer, and dancer, and

Michael Powers

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ichael Powers is a Seattle based jazz and blues guitarist.

His style was influenced by a diverse group of musicians which includes Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Charlie Parker, George Benson, Stanley Jordan, Miles Davis, and Kevin Eubanks.

On stage, Powers has performed with, recorded with or shared billings with piano giant Herbie Hancock, classic Jazz saxophonist Eddie “Clean Head” Vinson, B3 master Dr. Lonnie

Michael Powers Jazz

When: 12 p.m. - 3 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: Hotel Windrow When: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: Gallery One Smith, Ronnie Cuber, Gil Scott Heron, Keiko Matsui, Nancy Wilson, Les McCann, Najee, Tommy Davidson, Dr. Cornel West, and the legendary Ray Charles.

Brett Benton

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labama-born and Southern-raised, Brett Benton has been obsessed with country blues ever since he was a child, listening to his parents’ and grandparents’ records at an early age. By his teens he was playing behind a drum kit, and by his early 20’s was learning his way around slide guitar. Currently in the Pacific Northwest, he has been featured on KEXP and his debut album You Got To Pray features Grammy-winning hill country blues legend Cedric Burnside.

Known for his fierce rhythmic finger picking, melodic slide guitar and booming voice, Brett’s raw style is best heard one of two ways: paying homage to its roots with solo, acoustic slide guitar; and electric alongside

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Brett Benton Blues

When: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: The Pearl Bar and Grill a heavy, relentless and dynamic style of drums that really emphasizes what country blues is all about… the hypnotic groove! For either style being played, both remain true to the nature of country blues – a style not played by many – while also retrofitted with grit and a bit of heaviness from the modern times. His music keep the fans moving and grooving!”

Duende Libre Latin

When: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Friday, July 29 Where: Gard Vinter Wine Bar Chava Mirel, electrifying singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

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When: 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., Friday, July 29 Where: First Methodist Church

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he Ellensburg Big Band started as a dream and became a dream come true. The few remaining original members who started the group for fun in 2011 would have never in their wildest imaginations anticipated what this band would become.

Eighteen musicians centered in Ellensburg travel from all over the state to rehearse and perform, have created a genuinely professional sound energized by a rare camaraderie and the sheer joy

of making good music with good friends.

The majority of the current band are alums of one of the most outstanding college Jazz programs in the country, Central Washington University. They showcase swing, jazz, and classic traditional dance band from the 1940s and 1950’s and they’re back in the lineup for the 24th Jazz in the Valley, the Ellensburg Music Festival.

The group plays a variety of jazz standards and modern styles. The musicians represent a wide variety of players from the Ellensburg community and university, educators and local professionals.

It’s that combination of different styles and backgrounds that blend together to make a tremendous sound. The Ellensburg Big Band is the 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. showcase at the Methodist Church on Friday, July 29.

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Trio 77 Jazz

When: 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., Friday, July 29 Where: Gallery One When: 12 p.m. - 3 p.m., Saturday, July 30 Where: Hotel Windrow

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