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Billie Holiday Tribute Concert

Arcata Playhouse

Jazz is Peace 2025 Series Opener: honoring Billie Holiday

In an encore concert, Creative Sanctuary celebrates Billie Holiday in a birthday tribute to Lady Day April 6th, featuring some of Humboldt’s finest local singers and jazz musicians. Creative Sanctuary cofounder and driving force Katie Belknap will cohost with her frequent co-conspirator James Zeller. The two will sing and also play, respectively, clarinet and bass clarinet, and trombone.

Zeller and Belknap are excited to present two wonderful local vocalists, Marina Benson and Sara Kei.

“Sara and Marina are fabulous, and their voices are really wonderful gifts to our community. It’s really going to be a thrill for me to listen to their versions of these great songs and support them musically. If you haven’t heard them, well, here’s your chance,” enthused Zeller on the topic of the show’s guests stars.

For this encore follow up to last year’s fabulous concert, performers will once again share history about Billie Holiday, historical context of chosen songs, and insight into how Holiday’s music continues to have meaning for them.

This incomparable cast of singers will be joined by an equally talented and tasteful rhythm section made up of some of Humboldt finest jazz players, Matthew Seno on piano, Ramsey Isaacs, drums, and Danny Gaon, upright bass.

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• Arcata Playhouse

PRICE

• $15
• $30 sliding scale
• $25 sliding scale
• $20 sliding scale