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"Jazz enables us to understand and enjoy the individuality of
each person. It encourages us to listen to one another with empathy.
Jazz music teaches the respect, patience, and attentiveness required to
participate in today's worldwide conversation." |
-Wynton Marsalis, World Renown Jazz Musician |
Programs | Yazzy (Youth Celebrating Jazz Concert)
Yazzy Summer Morning Mix | Yazzy Workshops
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One of Shreveport’s most collaborative and professionally oriented creative arts programs involving youth, Yazzy showcases talented students in concert with internationally recognized artists who primarily represent the field of jazz. The Theatre of the Performing Arts of Shreveport directs this program and works closely with music and choral departments in Caddo Parish public schools. Yazzy is a collaborative effort of TPA of Shreveport and the Caddo Parish Public Schools System. Through 12 workshops each year, the program encourages talented young people to explore educational and vocational avenues to productive and profitable creative careers, allowing local youth an opportunity to talk with renowned professional artists and to practice and perform on stage with them. As many as 200 students have performed in a single year with recording artists such as Michael Ward, who has worked with children in New Orleans schools, and Brady Blade Jr., Shreveport’s own internationally renowned percussionist.
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