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CBJC Festival Magazine 2016

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium produces a Jazz Festival every year. 2016 brings our 17th Annual Festival. The Brooklyn grassRoots festival this year runs from April 15th until May 15. This years event was fantastic. View our magazine for a look inside.

Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium produces a Jazz Festival every year. 2016 brings our 17th Annual Festival. The Brooklyn grassRoots festival this year runs from April 15th until May 15. This years event was fantastic. View our magazine for a look inside.

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Communications<br />

The position of Communications Director was<br />

created by former Chairman Jitu Weusi in 2006<br />

in response to Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium<br />

partnership with a government agency of the Republic<br />

of South Africa. Bob Myers’ passion for the<br />

African inspired art form called Jazz; his training<br />

at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public<br />

Communications made him a good fit for the<br />

position. Myers was the owner of the Up Over Jazz<br />

Café and now heads Up Over Jazz Productions.<br />

This department is responsible for all internal and<br />

external correspondences from the company. Duties<br />

of this office have expanded into public relations,<br />

marketing, and contractual agreements.<br />

Those duties plus active support for the 16th Annual<br />

Central Brooklyn Jazz <strong>Festival</strong> ‘Where Jazz<br />

Lives’, April 17th thru May 17th, 2015, presented<br />

Bob Myers<br />

by the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium. This music<br />

series is New York City’s longest continuously<br />

running grassroots festival dedicated to the African<br />

inspired art form called Jazz. More than 500 artists<br />

will perform in 50 events at venues throughout<br />

Brooklyn and a few of the other boroughs.<br />

This celebration is accessible and open to all. This<br />

genre of music must be available to our community<br />

especially the youth so as not to relinquish their legacy<br />

and place in Jazz. International and regionally<br />

recognized artists performing at entertainment establishments,<br />

cultural, educational and faith based<br />

institutions during Jazz Appreciation Month. The<br />

backbone of our community based Jazz festival is<br />

the musicians and venues that keeps Brooklyn’s<br />

Jazz scene vibrate and fuels its nightlife economy.<br />

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