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Drawn To Jazz Program At The New Lebanon Library

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Visual artist and guitarist/vocalist Jacqueline Rogers and jazz saxophonist/drummer Allen Livermore will join forces in a fascinating program of live jazz performance and live drawing and painting on Friday, January 22, at 6:30 pm at the New Lebanon Library. The program, Drawn to Jazz, is free and open to art & music lovers of all ages.
Rogers and Livermore, joined by Berkshire County bassist Peter Borgnis, will engage in a free-wheeling conversation between music and visual expression. As with all good conversations, this will be a give and take between music, drawing and painting. Audience members will see and hear how the music influences the art and vice versa and will have the opportunity to draw and paint, provided they bring their own art supplies.
Jacqueline Rogers was the youngest of six children in a family of artists. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied illustration with David Macaulay and Chris Van Allsburg. She has illustrated dozens of children’s books for various publishers over her twenty year career. Most recently, she is writing more of her own stories.
Allen Livermore has studied with some of the all-time greats at the Hartt School of Music and Wesleyan University, including Jackie McLean, Rick Rozie, Anthony Braxton and Jay Hoggard. Since 1995, he has co-led a trio (ALMS) that performs mostly original, post-bop compositions and has led various groups in the Eastern New York-Western Massachusetts area. An accomplished educator, Livermore has taught secondary school music in Columbia, Rensselaer and Albany county schools and directs the jazz ensemble at Berkshire Community College. Additionally, he serves as Councilman for the Town of New Lebanon and is a member of the Columbia County Youth Bureau Advisory Board.
Twenty-one year old electric bassist Peter Borgnis has performed all over Berkshire County as a member of the Berkshire Community College Jazz Ensemble and with Allen Livermore at the Pittsfield Brew Works. He also composes music and writes poetry.
For further information on this event, call the New Lebanon Library at 518-794-8844.  The Library is located at 550 State Route 20, ¼ mile north of the yellow blinking light at the intersection of Routes 20 and 22.