This year to kick off the 35th Annual Clifford Brown Jazz Festival join us for the best of Duke Ellington’s legendary Sacred Music Concert, with Derrick Thompson, Choral Director and Gerald Chavis, Big Band Director

In the last years of Duke Ellington's life, the jazz maestro explored the spiritual side of his extraordinary musical gifts. Between 1965 and 1973, Ellington wrote three massive works that combined elements of jazz, classical music, choral music, spirituals, gospel, blues and dance.

He called them his "sacred concerts," and they were performed in churches and cathedrals around the world. He said it was the most important music he'd ever written.

Ticket Prices: Pay What You Wish.

Livestream tickets available, pay-what-you-wish

View the entire festival line up at www.cliffordbrownjazzfest.org

Proceeds support programs likes and other produced by Cityfest, Inc. including the Urban Artist Exchange and the Arts Work Summer Youth Program.