This Saturday, July 16, Oaktown Jazz Workshops - OJW - will celebrate the grand opening of its new home at 55 Washington in Jack London Square. The community is invited to show their support and enjoy, live jazz.

All proceeds to benefit Oaktown Jazz Workshops youth programs.

Along with classes, workshops and private lessons being offered, the new facility also houses Nadine’s performance space.

Jazz greats Faye Carol, Kenny Washington, and Eddie Marshall, spoken word artist Ise Lyfe and many more will be in attendance and performing with the workshops’ youth ensemble to celebrate their new stage, lounge and practice space.

This event will raise funds to support the expansion of Oaktown Jazz Workshops' instructional programs and its new building costs.

OJW has taught and nurtured young jazz musicians in the Oakland community for 17 years, emphasizing the importance of jazz as an indigenous American art form and challenging students to improve their skills in a collaborative, creative and safe environment.

Based in Oakland and formed in 1994, Oaktown Jazz Workshops' purpose is to promote, preserve and present jazz so that all youth, and especially African American youth, develop a sense of ownership and pride in jazz music as a uniquely American cultural tradition.

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Oaktown Jazz Workshop Grand Opening
7 p.m. Saturday, July 16
Khalil Shaheed’s Oaktown Jazz Workshops - Nadine’s Jack London Square, 55 Washington in Oakland
$20