PERFORMERS OF NOTE SLATED FOR FESTIVAL WEEKEND FETE TO HOST JAZZ, COUNTRY, R&B.Byline: Daily News QUARTZ HILL - Country, jazz, rock, and rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. music are on tap Saturday and Sunday for the 2004 Quartz Hill Almond Blossom Festival The Almond Blossom Festival is an annual arts, social, and entertainment festival held every year on the first weekend of August at Willunga, South Australia, Australia. . Along with food, games, crafts sales and other activities, the 55th Almond Blossom Festival will feature a musical lineup that includes country group The Lost Canyon Rangers, rock and rhythm and blues group Cervantes, The Tony Capko Jazz Quartet and Tony Capko Bump City. ``This is probably one of the best musical lineups we have had in a few years,'' said Robert Plunkett, president of the Quartz Hill Chamber of Commerce, lead sponsors of the Almond Blossom Festival. This year's festival, with the theme ``Almonds, Crafts and More in 2004,'' kicks off Saturday morning with parades along 50th Street West north of Avenue M. The pet parade begins at 9:30 a.m., followed by the main parade at 10 a.m. Harry Brodock, a decorated retired Air Force pilot, teacher and community and business leader, is the grand marshal Grand Marshal is a ceremonial, military, or political office of very high rank. The term has its origins with the word "Marshal" with the first usage of the term "Grand Marshal" as a ceremonial title for certain religious orders. . The festival goes on at George Lane George Lane (born 1940 ) is a British "mental calculator" and author. He is a three-times world champion and one of only three Grandmasters of Mental Calculation, as recognised by the Mind Sports Organisation. Park, on Avenue L-8 at 55th Street West, starting at 10 a.m. both days. The festival closes at 6 p.m. Festival admission is free. Opening both Saturday and Sunday will be performances by Cervantes, featuring Elizabeth Cervantes on lead vocals and backed by a veteran group of musicians from the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . The band has performed at numerous fairs and events through the High Desert. The Lost Canyon Rangers, returning as a favorite of the festival for performances on both days, is a four-person group featuring vocal harmonies and instrumental country tunes in the style of Roy Rogers
Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. and Gene Autry. Tony Capko's Bump City features up to four lead vocalists performing jazz, rhythm and blues, and funk. Tony Capko will reconfigure his group for Sunday's jazz quartet performance featuring musicians who have played with the likes of Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards and jazz who is widely considered to be one of , Barbara Streisand, Tom Jones and others. Other entertainment will include the Desert Stars Dance Studio, Quartz Hill High School Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). Jazz Ensemble and the WAVE (West Antelope Valley Education Foundation) SoundFX Choir. EVENTS SCHEDULE 2004 Almond Blossom Festival Saturday 9:30 a.m. - Pet parade along 50th Street West 10 a.m. - Almond Blossom almond blossom of Israel. [Flower Symbolism: WB, 7: 264] See : Flower Or Plant, National Parade; festival opens 11 a.m. - Cervantes Noon - Quartz Hill High School Jazz Ensemble 1 p.m. - The Lost Canyon Rangers 2 p.m. - Desert Stars Dance Studio show 3 p.m - Tony Capko's Bump City with special guests -- Sunday 10 a.m. - Cervantes Noon - The Lost Canyon Rangers 2 p.m. - Desert Stars Dance Studio show 2:30 p.m. - WAVE choir 3 p.m. - The Tony Capko Jazz Quartet CAPTION(S): box Box: EVENTS SCHEDULE (see text) |
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