DON'T MISS MARYLAND'S NEW OUTDOOR JAZZ AND ART FESTIVAL

Catch the new jazz festival in Severna Park Sunday, September 19 from 1-5 PM. The event features top shelf jazz groups and fine art in the courtyard and interior of Cafe Mezzanotte at 760 Ritchie Highway (Route 2). Parking is free and plentiful. View art from from Benfield Gallery, Gallery 564, McBride Gallery and Side Street Framers. Festival food and wine tasting stations will be available and the restaurant will offer its full Mediterranean menu. Opening act is the global jazz trio Amoroso, featuring Annie Award winning multi- instrumentalist and vocalist Elizabeth Melvin (Wooden Hands, Mama Jama, Caribbean Art Jazz Ensemble), guitarist and vocalist Richard Rausch and Dick Glass.

Headliners, The JoGo Project, deliver some of the most innovative sounds to come out of the nation’s capital in decades. Led by international saxophonist and former Chuck Brown protégé Elijah Jamal Balbed, the band combines jazz and Go-Go music with vocalist Paul Spires, trumpeter Brad Clements, guitarist Zachary Cutler, bassist Delorean Fullington, drummer Willie Howell and percussionist Lewis Mike Burney. Balbed also appears in a soothing set of jazz and Brazilian music with the Balbed/Arnold/Berkowitz Trio. His bandmates are two of the busiest musicians in the region: bassist Steve Arnold and drummer Julian Berkowitz.

Admission of $35 online or $40 at the door. Tickets from instant seats, short link: https://instnt.us/aitp.

Jazz Beyond Borders presents the event with the Severna Park Voice and Cafe Mezzanotte. Proceeds will partially benefit The Food Project. Visit http://www.jazzbeyondborders.com.