Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Brews & Blues

Starting Wednesday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m., the Idlewild Foundation will be hosting a jazz lab at the Saugatuck Brewing Company. A new topic will be discussed every second Wednesday of the month, beginning with “No Blues” next week and “Alter Egos, or the Exploration of the Humanization of the Application of the Chicken and Egg Theory in Relation to Music” in November. Kerry O’Donohue, the bar manager at the Brewing Company, laughed and said in order to understand that title, “you’ll have to come to the show to find out.” These sessions will feature a movie or documentary focused on jazz and then a group listening to recorded jazz music. The direction the meetings take resides with the participants who can select the musicians, eras, instruments etc. that will be focused on. O’Donohue explained that this series was inspired by the jazz fest in Saugatuck this summer and “the jazz lab concept is an extension of that…there has not been a lot of hype or promotion...[but] it is a very new concept.” The sessions are free.

To learn more about the Saugatuck Brewing Company, check out its Facebook.

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