Returning to the Skaneateles Festival for the first time since 2019, nine-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and jazz ambassador Wynton Marsalis will lead the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Robinson Pavilion at Anyela’s Vineyards! Wynton Marsalis has solidified himself as an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and advocate of American culture. He is also a globally respected teacher and spokesman for music education.
Wynton led the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home — Frederick P. Rose Hall, the first education, performance and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. He currently serves as the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Tickets for this performance on Aug. 24 are now sold out. In the event of inclement weather, the rain location will be del Lago Resort & Casino in Waterloo.
On Thursday, Aug. 22, at First Presbyterian Church in Skaneateles, the festival welcomes brass quartet The Westerlies, joined by violinist-fiddler George Meyer, to present "Songbook," a program of music by John Prine, Randy Newman and Woody Guthrie, spirituals by the famous Golden Gate Quartet and more. The New York-based Westerlies are “an arty quartet” of two trumpets and two trombones, who “mix ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk," according to The New York Times.
From Carnegie Hall to Coachella, The Westerlies navigate a wide array of venues and projects with the pre.