National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Fall Grant Announcement

artists from across the country. A one-day free festival in neighborhoods around the city will celebrate the
summer solstice. In addition to live audiences, listening audiences will be reached by WFMT-FM public radio
broadcasts.
Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (aka The Gilmore)
$20,000 Kalamazoo, MI
To support presentations of piano recitals with related educational activities. Plans include presentations in the
Piano Masters and Rising Stars recital series. Sir Andras Schiff will be featured in the Piano Masters series. Artists
in the Rising Stars series will include Seong-Jin Cho, Sara Daneshpour, Roman Rabinovich, and Llewellyn Sanchez-
Werner. Educational outreach activities will include pre-concert talks by a musicologist, a high school residency
conducted by the Gilmore education department, and discounted tickets to students. Selections from the
recitals may be live-streamed on the Gilmore website and aired later on American Public Media's Performance
Today radio program.
Jazz Foundation of America, Inc. (aka Jazz Foundation of America)
$15,000 New York, NY
To support the Gig Fund program. Free-of-charge blues and jazz performances in non-traditional performance
spaces in selected cities will be curated to connect underserved artists with underserved audiences. Each
engagement will be at least an hour-long and feature musicians aged 40 and older with demonstrated financial
need who reside in the participating cities. Intergenerational collaborations among artists are encouraged.
Confirmed participating artists include Najite Agindotan, Kim Clarke, Wayne Escoffery, and Ray Mantilla.
Performances will take place at various partner organizations' venues such as the Chicago Public Library, the
American Cancer Society Patrick F. Taylor Hope Lodge in New Orleans, ,Grow NYC, the Goddard Riverside
Community Center, and Riverbank State Park in Harlem (all in New York) as well as these Michigan partners: the
Hazel Park District Library in Hazel Park, the Adrian District Library in Adrian, and the Thomas Jefferson Branch
Library in Detroit.
Jazz Gallery
$20,000 New York, NY
To support The Shape of Jazz To Come. An expansion of the organization's longstanding Debut Series, this
program will offer as many as 60 Thursday evening performance opportunities within one year for emerging
artists at the Jazz Gallery and selected partner venues. Other project components include business and
marketing skills training for emerging artists; opening the venue to emerging artists for rehearsals and
workshops at no charge; and a mentorship program pairing young artists with seasoned jazz musicians such as
Orrin Evans, Steve Lehman, and Yosvany Terry. Free admission will be offered to some performances by newly
discovered artists. Organizational partners include the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, SEEDS and ShapeShifter
Lab in Brooklyn, as well as the SOUTH jazz venue in Philadelphia.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (aka JALC)
$50,000 New York, NY
To support two distinct Jazz at Lincoln Center performance series. The Jazz and Popular Song Series, curated by
pianist Michael Feinstein, will include concerts with themes such as The Unforgettable Nat King Cole; The Music
of Mel Torme; and Ella on My Mind, a celebration of Ella Fitzgerald. The Jazz Innovator Series will include The
Latin Side of Dizzy with Carlos Henriquez program dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie's Latin Jazz-inspired repertoire as
well as a Round Midnight: Monk's Legacy concert with two featured pianists, teenage prodigy Joey Alexander
from Indonesia and Sullivan Fortner from New Orleans. The series will be rounded out with a performance by
saxophonist Joshua Redman and his Still Dreaming Quartet interpreting repertoire from the Old and New
Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of
December 7, 2016.