Come Sunday Jazz with Al Strong

Name: Come Sunday Jazz with Al Strong
Start: 2025-05-18T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-18T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 555 E Connecticut Avenue, PO Box 939, Southern Pines, NC, United States, North Carolina 28388

Schedule

Sun May 18 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

555 E Connecticut Avenue, PO Box 939, Southern Pines, NC, United States, North Carolina 28388 | Southern Pines, NC

Coined for Duke Ellington’s classic “Come Sunday,” each jazz event features internationally renowned jazz artists who will perform their own rendition of Ellington’s masterpiece. Join us outdoors on Weymouth Center’s beautiful grounds for live music on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Bring your own blanket, chairs, and a picnic, and enjoy our cash bar with mimosas, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages available.
More about Al Strong:
An award-winning trumpet player, composer, recording artist, and educator. A cultural innovator, he is the co-founder of the non-profit the Art of Cool Project, which spawned the internationally recognized Art of Cool Music Festival.
Strong is lauded for his distinctively unique sound. Whether melting hearts at a whisper volume or delivering piercing musical intensity while being gracefully dynamic, his natural ability to strike listeners at their core is unmatched.
A native of Washington, D.C., Strong is a graduate of the renowned Duke Ellington School for the Performing Arts and a passionate advocate for young people in music education. His experiences studying music at renowned Jazz Studies programs North Carolina Central University and Northern Illinois University, afforded him invaluable opportunities to perform at premiere jazz festivals; Montreal Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and The Peru Jazz Festival, to name a few.