This events calendar includes Earl’s upcoming performances, compositional debuts, recordings and educational activities. On mobile devices this calendar is best viewed horizontally.
2025
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Thu09Jan2025
Joel Rosenblatt Trio
6 - 8 PMPrivate, Corporate Event. Westerly, RI
with Joel Rosenblatt – drums, Dave Edwards – bass
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Tue28Jan2025Wed29Jan2025
Myra Jazz Festival
Red River High School Performance Hall,
Grand Forks, North Dakota
The Myra Jazz Festival has been running continuously for over 30 years. It is a two-day festival for middle school and high school jazz bands in the upper Red River Valley. In addition to adjudicating and presenting clinic sessions, Earl will perform as a featured guest artist with the Myra Big Band. The festival is free and open to the public on both days. -
Sun02Feb2025
Chris Beaudry Quintet
3:00 PMHartford Public Library, 500 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103
Chris Beaudry – tenor sax,
Haneef Nelson – trumpet,
Earl MacDonald – piano,
Tyler Sherman – string bass,
Jesse Hameen II – drum set -
Fri07Feb2025
UConn High School Jazz Festival
8 AM - 7:30 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, CT
[directions and parking]
The annual UConn Jazz Festival is a non-competitive and educationally-rewarding experience that provides a forum for mutual support of each ensemble’s efforts while enhancing skills in the jazz idiom. Highlights of the festival include:
- a twenty-minute performance time for each ensemble,
- a twenty-minute personalized clinic by a UConn Jazz faculty member,
- beginning, intermediate, and advanced level improvisation master classes, and
- a mini-concert by the UConn Jazz Ensemble and UConn Jazz faculty.
