WBGO Children’s Jazz Series Features Antoinette Montague

New Orleans and Newark are nearly 1300 miles apart, but that distance disappears when The Antoinette Montague Experience swings into the TD James Moody Jazz Festival to perform “From New Orleans to Newark,” at the WBGO Children’s Concert Series, presented by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, at Newark Symphony Hall, 1020 Broad Street, on November 16, 2024, at 1:00 pm. The free concert features music and stories by and about Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Mahalia Jackson, James Moody, Sarah Vaughan and other great entertainers from New Orleans and Newark.

Antoinette Montague is an incredible Blues and Jazz singer and entertainer. She consistently delivers an amazing experience for audiences to enjoy. Her recent 2024 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Heroes Award is a testament to the many assets she possesses. Antoinette is a proud daughter of the Great City of Newark. Known as Jazz Woman to the Rescue for her stage persona and her humanitarian work with the foundation of the same name, Antoinette lives her big life with jazz in her heart and the blues in her soul. The multi-talented entertainer sings and teaches and has performed for Jazzmobile, Jazz Power Initiative, Blue Note, Birdland, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and in countries around the world including Israel, Russia and South Korea. She has instructed at The New School, Marymount College, Jazz at Lincoln Center and serves as a mentor and advocate, and even has a radio show. Her dazzling smile, her way with a kazoo, and her deep understanding and love of the music we call the Blues and Jazz is unmatched. AntoinetteMontague.com

ABOUT WBGO CHILDREN’S CONCERT SERIES/NEWARK PUBLIC RADIO
The WBGO Children’s Concert Series brings world-renowned jazz musicians to concert halls and venues throughout New York and New Jersey. These free concerts give young listeners the chance to discover the enjoyment of jazz, improvisation and musical collaboration. WBGO-FM/Newark Public Radio is a non-profit, publicly funded arts and cultural institution, dedicated to the curation, presentation, and preservation of music created out of the African American experience. The station is committed to providing its world-wide jazz community with independently produced music programming and journalism for the purpose of public enrichment, entertainment, and insight. https://www.wbgo.org

ABOUT THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG EDUCATION FOUNDATION (LAEF)
The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF) was founded and funded by Louis and Lucille Armstrong in 1969 to give back to the world “some of the goodness he received.” The mission of the organization is to preserve and promote the cultural legacy of Louis Armstrong by fostering programs, lectures, and other educational events to assist those interested, gifted and talented in the field of music, primarily jazz. Today the Foundation is a major source of funding for programs to expose and educate adults and children in the history of American jazz and has provided solid financial support to institutions across the nation. In October 2021 in celebration of the 50th anniversary of LAEF, Verve Records, in conjunction with LAEF, released A Gift to Pops, a CD by The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong All-Stars with special guests Wynton Marsalis and Common. https://louisarmstrongfoundation.org

ABOUT THE TD JAMES MOODY FESTIVAL and NJPAC
Named for Newark’s great saxophonist/flutist James Moody, The TD James Moody Jazz Festival presents dozens of free and ticketed events, including Dorthaan’s Place, Jazz Vespers and the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. NJPAC is a nonprofit arts organization that is the cultural institution for the city of Newark that presents audiences with world-class performances, and nurtures students through a comprehensive arts education, and engages the community with free cultural events across the city. https://www.njpac.org/
https://www.njpac.org/series/james-moody-jazz-festival/

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