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Arts to Zion Tour

PERFORMING ARTS SCHEDULE

FRIDAY Jan. 18th, 2019

10:30a to 12:30p -Sears Gallery

Piano Jazz by Jay Christiansen

As the only child of musical parents, Jay started

learning piano from his mother about the time he

started walking and was playing in public by the time

he was 12. Beginning his professional career at 16,

he started playing with local big bands and jazz combos.

Before graduating from the U of U (Music Education),

he played piano in a combo with local guitarist Dale Wagstaff

six nights a week at various nightclubs and dance halls

in Northern Utah. Jay continued to take music courses,

workshops, and seminars over the next several years.

He worked with George Shearing and many other prominent

university professors. During his teaching career he taught

at several Utah and Nevada High Schools, where he was

in charge of all music programs. He also taught at Snow College

and directed the band program and show choir, as well as teaching courses for music educators; he has always taught jazz piano lessons. Since retiring from teaching in the public schools, Jay has recorded several jazz CDs and continues to play with jazz musicians in the St. George, Utah area. Jay .can be reached for piano jazz lessons and performance by calling him at (435) 669-6574

12:30p to 3:30p- Sears Gallery

Dave Stevens Band plays

DAVE BRUBECK (beat poet era)

Dave Stevens was trained in classical piano at

Brigham Young University, where he earned a

Bachelor’s, and then a Master’s at the University of Utah. He joined the Air Force Band as a keyboardist, percussionist, and a vocalist, performing jazz, classical, and popular music all over the world. He currently teaches at Cinnamon Hills Youth Crisis Center in St. George and performs in various ensembles in Southwestern Utah.

FRIDAY --- Affogato LOVE Coffee Shop

4:00p to 5:30p

Nick Adams sings Nat King Cole

jazz standards with back-up band.

Nick started as a kid playing guitar in local rock

and alternative bands in Las Vegas, where he grew up.

In 1980 he was invited to join a punk band called MIA — he remembers being intrigued by the energy and the styles of the music. Now living and working in St. George, Utah Nick runs his own photography business and continues to play and sing in MIA. Nick has also started doing solo shows as a way to keep up his chops for MIA, but he also found that it gave him some great opportunities to grow musically. Solo shows allow him to display some of his musical tastes by playing songs from a wide variety of musical styles, both covers and original tunes. For the Arts to Zion Tour, Nick will be singing songs made famous by one of his favorite jazz singers – Nat King Cole.

Nick can be reached via his website at http://www.nickadams.net/

Note: Nick’s photography will be the feature artist at Affogato LOVE for the month of January.