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Jazz at the Library

Free live jazz every first Friday
2025-09-05 12:00:00 2025-09-05 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Jazz at the Library Join us at the Downtown Library and enjoy free jazz music by local musicians.  Downtown Branch - Community Room

Friday, September 05
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-09-05 12:00:00 2025-09-05 13:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Jazz at the Library Join us at the Downtown Library and enjoy free jazz music by local musicians.  Downtown Branch - Community Room

Downtown Branch

Community Room

Join us at the Downtown Library and enjoy free jazz music by local musicians. 

 In memory of her husband, bassist and jazz singer, Betty N. has created the William H. Nadeau Memorial Fund promoting and rewarding excellence in jazz performance. In partnering with the library, the memorial fund is able to bring the wonderful sounds of live jazz music to the community. This program will run on the first Friday of every month for the rest of the year.

On Friday, September 5, booked are Scotty Wright, Jazz Voice, Jon Dryden, piano, Dan Robbins, bass, Jason Lewis, drums,
and Matthew Simon playing two or three trumpet solos.  Once again, these are all highly professional
musicians who will adjust their playing to the library conference room.  Scotty Wright is currently residing in Florida and 
Matthew Simon is an award-winning professor from Barcelona, Spain.  Scotty and Matthew will be in Santa Cruz for
the Jazz Society benefit at Kuumbwa on Sunday, September 7th along with Jon Dryden.

Just booked for Friday, October 3rd Mads Tolling jazz violinist with piano and bass.

AGE GROUP: | Adults 18+ years |

EVENT TYPE: | Music |

Downtown Branch
Phone: 831-427-7707
Branch manager
James Lee

Today's hours

We're open 10:00AM to 6:00PM

Mon, Aug 25 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Tue, Aug 26 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Wed, Aug 27 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Aug 28 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Aug 29 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Aug 30 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Aug 31 1:00PM to 5:00PM
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