{"id":88850,"date":"2022-07-19T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/school-church-and-saloon-fall-together-at-jjc\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T06:30:00","slug":"school-church-and-saloon-fall-together-at-jjc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/school-church-and-saloon-fall-together-at-jjc\/","title":{"rendered":"School, church and saloon fall together at JJC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showcasing the variety of this year&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jazzandclassics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juneau Jazz &#038; Classics<\/a> fall music festival is as simple as noting one of the featured artists is equally in harmony with an opera glass in a prison or a Fireball shot in a saloon.<\/p>\n<p>Shelly Watson, scheduled to perform everything from opera to family-friendly variety to barroom burlesque, is among the five bands and individual musicians scheduled to perform at the festival between Sept. 19-24. Sandy Fortier, the festival&rsquo;s director, said Watson and multi-genre pianist Matt Herskowitz both proved popular when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pRLCx7X64LM&#038;list=PLNtmSy8Yfnrh70K5X9wXKQ2dSVK0tTjZB&#038;index=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">they participated virtually<\/a> in the event in 2020 due to restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everybody loved them so we wanted to bring them up here in person,&rdquo; Fortier said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pRLCx7X64LM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fall event will also revisit a much-favored venue for what Fortier called &ldquo;our big, big, big concert,&rdquo; with <a href=\"https:\/\/simplythreemusic.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the rock string trio (yes, you read that correctly) Simply Three<\/a> performing works ranging from Adele to Gershwin to Coldplay to Michael Jackson at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kal&#233;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We haven&rsquo;t been there in a long time so we&rsquo;re hoping to fill it up,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>A &ldquo;new&rdquo; venue also on the highlight list is Crystal Saloon, which hosted some of its first performances since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/whats-old-is-new-again-a-crystal-saloon-returns-to-juneau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the historic establishment reopened in a new location<\/a> during the spring JJ&#038;C. Watson is scheduled to perform cabaret and burlesque shows there, and Fortier said festival organizers are also considering scheduling free happy hour performances by various musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Watson will also perform a free family concert at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library &mdash; &ldquo;she&rsquo;ll probably do a little bit of everything she knows,&rdquo; Fortier said &mdash; and for inmates at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She told me she has a personal connection with her family with incarceration,&rdquo; Fortier said.<\/p>\n<p>The prison performance will be among the many community appearances and workshops by festival artists at schools and with community groups that are a regular part of the festival, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the musicians are being brought to the festival by Zuill Bailey, a Grammy-winning cellist who is the festival&rsquo;s artistic director.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s played with a lot of these musicians before,&rdquo; Fortier said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the collaborations Bailey is planning during the festival is a concert with Herskowitz at Chapel By The Lake.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We wanted a classical concert there because it has that beautiful background,&rdquo; Fortier said.<\/p>\n<p>The other featured musician is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larastjohn.com\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lara St. John, a Canadian violinist<\/a> whose Mozart recording won a Juno Award (essentially a Canadian Grammy) in 2011 and whose 2016 album of reimagined folk music earned a five-star review from All About Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the just-announced lineup, which is still being finalized with the concert schedule still pending, are scheduled to go on sale at the end of July. Under a new ticketing system donors to JJ&#038;C will get the first opportunity to buy tickets, with the general public able to buy them about a week later.<\/p>\n<p>Fortier said while shows at smaller venues may sell out quickly, she doesn&rsquo;t expect any to do so during the donor-only sales. She estimates tickets to most shows will be about $40, with a &ldquo;Puttin&rsquo; On The Ritz&rdquo; event costing more because it&rsquo;s catered and the Crystal Saloon shows costing less due to a cover charge to get into the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are again being sought for both the festival and advance work such as putting up posters around town, she said.<\/p>\n<p>While the COVID-19 pandemic caused chaos the past couple of years, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/all-that-jazz-returns-to-juneau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a number of on-the-fly arrangements were necessary this spring<\/a> due to travel and other snafus, Fortier said &ldquo;I would say we&rsquo;re about 95% set&rdquo; in terms of planning the fall festival. The primary remaining task is determining who&rsquo;s performing on what days.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It seems like everyone&rsquo;s out enjoying their summer so it&rsquo;s taking longer to get everything set,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; <em>Contact Mark Sabbatini at mark.sabbatini@juneauempire.com. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorful autumn lineup features a rock string trio and an opera\/burlesque mastro <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":868,"featured_media":88851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[322],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-88850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88850"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=88850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}