Four Singers from Roosevelt Vocal Jazz Honored

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Roosevelt Vocal Jazz is shining bright this week: Four of our top singers have been honored as semi-finalists in the Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition.

The competition is sponsored by the Seattle-Kobe Sister City Association, which will select one high school and one adult female jazz vocalist from the greater Seattle area to travel to Kobe, Japan to perform at the Kobe Jazz Queen Vocalist Contest on May 9th, 2015.

Celeste Yglesias, Alex Mountsier, Eliana Colachis and Maya Hunter grabbed four of the six semi-finalist spots, and will all be performing at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley on Monday, March 9.

More info is available on the Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley website!

Roosevelt Vocal Jazz Shines Brightly

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Alex Mountsier took the top prize, and Maya Hunter received special mention as four of our top singers were honored as semi-finalists in the Seattle-Kobe Female Jazz Vocalist Audition.

Along with Alex and Maya, Celeste Yglesias and Eliana Colachis rounded out the quartet who grabbed four of the six finalist spots, performing at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley on Monday, March 9.

The competition is sponsored by the Seattle-Kobe Sister City Association, which selected Alex and one adult female jazz vocalist (Taylor Zickefoose) from the greater Seattle area to travel to Kobe, Japan to perform at the Kobe Jazz Queen Vocalist Contest on May 9th, 2015.

More info on the contest here.

Roosevelt Jazz Band Returns to Essentially Ellington!

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The Roosevelt Jazz Band was named as one of the finalists in the prestigious Essentially Ellington Festival, held May 7-8 in New York. This will be the 16th time in 17 years that Roosevelt has received this honor.

Two other schools from our region, Mount Si and Garfield will also be competing this year (the same lineup as last year).

Essentially Ellington is presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center, the jazz nonprofit headed by Wynton Marsalis.

Check out the Seattle Times coverage of the news!

More information about Essentially Ellington

Support Roosevelt Jazz by Buying Groceries : eScrip!

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We have a new and incredibly simple opportunity to raise ongoing money for the Booster program: The “Safeway eScrip” is a great fundraiser for Roosevelt Jazz primarily because  – for those of you who already shop at Safeway – it’s not asking you to do anything different than you already.

Here’s how it works-Simply register your existing Safeway card with eScrip. Then shop as you normally would at Safeway. That’s it! CLICK HERE to download an info sheet 

Find out more about ways eScrip can help RHS Jazz:

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Support Roosevelt Jazz by Buying Groceries: Try eScrip!

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We have a new and incredibly simple opportunity to raise ongoing money for the Booster program: The “Safeway eScrip” is a great fundraiser for Roosevelt Jazz primarily because  – for those of you who already shop at Safeway – it’s not asking you to do anything different than you already.

Here’s how it works-

Simply register your existing Safeway card with eScrip. Then shop as you normally would at Safeway. That’s it!

CLICK HERE to download an info sheet 

Find out more about ways eScrip can help RHS Jazz: