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EVENT DETAILS

Time:
Thursday, December 9th at 6:30pm
Performance Begins Promptly at 7:30pm

Location
Halcyon House
3400 Prospect Street, NW
Washington, DC  20007
(Entrance on 34th Street)
 
RSVP Info
Tickets: $250 (Sponsor) $100 (Friend) $50 (Under 35)
Purchase here: http://bit.ly/bJc4My
reservations will be on a list at the door
About Sasha Bruce Youthwork
 
Sasha Bruce Youthwork (SBY) is a non-profit agency whose mission is to improve the lives of runaway, homeless, neglected and at-risk youth and their families in the Washington metropolitan area.  Founded in l974, the agency provides shelter, counseling, crisis intervention and support services through sixteen community based programs, each designed specifically for these vulnerable populations.  This year, over 1,500 of Washington, D.C.’s most troubled children and teenagers will be engaged in SBY’s wide array of family-focused activities.  Sasha Bruce House remains the only emergency shelter for young people in the nation’s capital.  For  thirty-six years, SBY has continued to be at the forefront of developing and executing integrated services to stabilize disenfranchised youth and families and to empower them towards healthy and productive lives.

About ELEW
 
A modern day pop artist and musical revolutionary, piano iconoclast ELEW is making a substantial impression on the music world with a thunderous new style of playing: an inspired melding of ragtime, rock and pop that he calls Rockjazz. ELEW has toured the world, recorded, and performed continuously with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Elvin Jones, Roy Hargrove, and Cassandra Wilson, among others. He won the 1999 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition, his mesmerizing piano theatrics even then hinting at the new musical paradigm he would one day create. Now, in the jazz tradition of interpreting popular tunes of the day, much like Art Tatum and John Coltrane, ELEW has turned to rock, combining a guitarist’s approach to the piano with an explosively physical style of playing that would be at home in any arena. An imposing force even before he stands (not sits) behind the piano, ELEW is known for playing his instrument like an athlete plays a sport—going inside the instrument, testing the limits of his body, pushing through the pain and exhaustion….but never stopping. As he continues to gain notoriety with his blistering renditions of infectious rock and pop anthems by Coldplay, The Killers, Nirvana, and more, he has broken free of the rigidly defined boundaries of the traditional jazz world and ultimately given birth to something wholly original. His relentless innovation and disregard for the musical status quo has shocked and angered the jazz world even as it has attracted the rapt attention and following of mainstream political, artistic, and cultural leaders from across the globe—including Donna Karan, Forest Whitaker and Eric Schmidt of Google, among others—as well as netting the musician a historic performance at the White House itself. ELEW’s debut album—ELEW Rockjazz Volume 1—is now available for digital purchase on iTunes and on CD Baby. Learn more at www.ELEWROCKJAZZ.com <http://www.elewrockjazz.com/> .