Puffin Cultural Forum

THIS SATURDAY, 6/27 AT 7:00PM at the Puffin Cultural Forum (20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ):

The Marel Hidalgo Organ Trio presents “A Celebration of Black Jazz Composers,” featuring seventeen-year-old Marel Hidalgo on guitar & banjo, Leonieke Scheuble on organ, and Winard Harper on drums!

They will be playing music from some of the most important African-American jazz composers of the swing, bebop, hard bop, and post-bop eras, including Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Horace Silver, Charles Mingus, Tadd Dameron, Woody Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Randy Weston, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Gigi Gryce, and more.

Marel Hidalgo is a young guitarist, banjoist, arranger, orchestrator, and bandleader hailing from Neptune, New Jersey, whose playing ranges from Straight-Ahead and Jamaican Jazz to Avant-garde. His playing quickly caught the attention of the jazz scene, and he has been highly active in jazz venues and festivals in the US and overseas ever since. He has performed at Exit Zero Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Count Basie’s Vogel Theater, The New York Guitar Festival at Bryant Park in NYC, The Elnora Guitar Festival at The Krannert Center in Illinois, Teatro Nacional and Festival Día Internacional del Jazz in San José, Costa Rica, and Sunset Sunside Jazz Club in Paris, France. He has also worked alongside many talented and renowned musicians, such as Billy Hart, Roger Humphries, Winard Harper, Johnathan Blake, Byron Landham, Carlomagno Araya, Adam Nussbaum and Tommy Campbell, Monty Alexander, Pat Bianchi, Radam Schwartz, Jared Gold, John Lee, Dwayne Dolphin, Gary Mazzaroppi, and Felipe Fournier.
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Suggested Donation: $10
BUY TICKETS: puffinculturalforum.org
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If you cannot pay the suggested donation, please email [email protected] to ask for free reservation(s). Thank you!

THIS SUNDAY, JUNE 14th, at the Puffin Cultural Forum:
Jim Wright, author of acclaimed new book “The Peregrine Falcon,” tells all about the incredible raptors in his lavishly illustrative talk: how they can travel at 200 mph, why they nearly went extinct, how they were saved in the unlikeliest way, and how they became internet superstars. Even if you think you know a lot about peregrines, prepare to be surprised! PLUS, as an added bonus, Jim will be displaying a racing-pigeon leg band that he retrieved from a peregrine pellet!

Booklist magazine raves: “Full of personal anecdotes from Wright’s many years as a nest monitor and hawk watcher and quotes from scientists and early naturalists and richly illustrated with beautiful color photos, this will be the peregrine primer for years to come.”

In addition to this go-to book on peregrine falcons, Jim Wright has written “The Screech Owl Companion,” “The Real James Bond,” “The Nature of the Meadowlands,” and several other books. He monitors nesting peregrines for the state of New Jersey in the spring, coordinates the State Line Hawk Watch in the fall, and writes a birding column for “The Record” in Northern New Jersey every two weeks. He is a deputy marsh warden at the Celery Farm Nature Preserve in Allendale.
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RSVP at puffinculturalforum.org



teaneck

The Forum invites YOU to take the stage!
We welcome performers from all disciplines—music, poetry, dance, theater, comedy, and more.

Join us for a FREE celebration of community, arts, and culture, hosted by Teaneck’s very own Poet Laureate, Scott Pleasants!

Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Stage time is limited to 8 minutes. If you’re interested in performing, please RSVP online AND submit a description of your act along with a demo (if available) to: [email protected]

To RSVP (as a performer or attendee) please go to puffinculturalforum.org
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