First Monday Jazz: Ernest Dawkins
@ Currency Exchange Café
305 E Garfield Blvd, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, June 4th, from 7PM - 9PM
Join us at the Currency Exchange Café for a special First Monday Jazz event featuring Ernest Dawkins.
Ernest Dawkins was named ‘Chicagoan of the Year’ twice by the Chicago Tribune and has been awarded the State of Illinois Governors Fellowship award twice. In 2008, he received a Governor’s International Grant. Dawkins established The Englewood Jazz Festival, now in its 11th year, and founded the Live The Spirit Residency, a not-for-profit arts organization committed to improving access to creative and improvised music for under-served communities within the city of Chicago.
He has created commissioned works for the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Sons d’Hiver Festival, Banliues Bleues Festival, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, and the King Arts Complex of Columbus Ohio. Dawkins is an active member in the local arts community and is former Chairman of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Dawkins has worked with a myriad of music greats including: Ramsey Lewis, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Willie Pickens, Malachi Favors, Henry Threadgill, Amina Claudine Myers, Anthony Braxton, Jack McDuff, Don Moye, Jerry Butler, and The Dells.
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This event is FREE.
This event is wheelchair accessible. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in these events should contact Arts + Public Life for assistance at 773.702.9724 or artsandpubliclife@uchicago.edu.
Questions? Contact Nikki Patin at npatin@uchicago.edu or 773.263.7003.
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