FREE ENTERTAINMENT AT THE EMERSON CARNIVAL!

LOCATION: Cannery Park, Covell and J Street, Davis

DATES: Saturday, April 12 and Sunday, April 13

All acts will perform on the stage at the south end of the carnival site, closest to Covell Blvd.

Saturday April 12

1:00 PM Willett Elementary Chorus
Over 50 third through sixth graders from Willett Elementary School meet to rehearse once or twice per week before school under director Claudia Krich, second grade teacher. The performance will include songs from stage shows, movies and folk tunes.

2:00 PM Pallen's Martial Arts Extreme Demo Team
An elite team of students from Pallen's Martial Arts of Davis, ranging in age from elementary students through adults, will present a dazzling display of karate moves, stunt fighting, and self defense.

2:30 PM Davis Fencing Academy
French-trained fencing master Simon Petfield along with students from the Davis Fencing Academy will give an informative demonstration of the Olympic sport of fencing. En Garde! You can also try it out yourselves at their demo booth.

3:00 PM The Vintage Jazz Players (VJP)
This group came together over a year ago in Davis to perform jazz, latin, and funk standards using their unique arrangements and an energetic but 'laid-back' attitude in their music. The group was founded by Calvin Handy (tenor), and Robert (Dr. Bob) Blake (guitar) with key players like Jeff Minnieweather (drums), Erik Larson (bass), and Shannon Ko (vocalist). The VJP performs locally for a variety of events including concerts, conventions, festivals, and
receptions and ceremonies, large and small. In 2007, VJP performed at the UC Davis Chancellor's residence on Picnic Day. Drummer Jeff Minnieweather anchors the VJP with his dynamic, diverse, and highly stylized play. Jeff has performed with many top professional musicians in a variety of musical venues. Jeff is the VJP's link to Emerson through Marilyn who is a member of the staff at Emerson. Calvin Handy is retired chief of police, UC Davis, Bob Blake is a language professor at UC Davis, Erik Larson is a UCD graduate student, and Shannon Ko is a UCD undergraduate math major. The VJP will feature Terry Tippie on keyboard for this benefit event. Terry is an accomplished player and a Davis resident. VJP's musical repertoire includes songs by great performers such as Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Mile Davis, Paul Desmond, Sergio Mendes, the Meters, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, and many others.

5:00 Emerson student Rowan McGuire (drums) and Holmes student Noah Wolfe (guitar) will perform original and classic rock numbers.

5:20 Doodle - former Emerson junior highers Will Raybould (bass, vocals), Erol Kavvas (drums), and Harry Greer (guitar, keys, vocals) play energetic rock music for driftwood, arctic surfers and imperial scum.

6:00 PM Butterscotch
Emerson alum Antoinette "Butterscotch" Clinton is a 21-year-old internationally recognized beatbox artist seen on NBC's number one hit show of the summer "America's Got Talent" as one of the finalists. Before her claim to fame, in September of 2005 she battled for the First International World Female Beatbox Champion title in Leipzig, Germany competing with beatboxers from all over the world. She also is the newly crowned West Coast Beatbox Champion beating 18 men to get to the top. Butterscotch is also a singer/songwriter/musician who incorporates beatboxing into her compositions along with instruments she plays such as the piano, flute, saxophone, bass, guitar and performs regularly at shows all over the country. She is heavily influenced by jazz, classical, hip hop and R&B artists ranging from Frederick Chopin to John Coltrane to Stevie Wonder. After high school she was accepted into the music program at California State University Sacramento as a Classical Piano Major but now is solely focusing on her music career outside of school. She hopes to return and create a Beatbox or Vocal Percussion Major and believes the art of beatboxing needs to be recognized as its own entity, instrument, even genre. On the side she loves photography and has her works featured at local galleries and up for sale. Sports have always impacted her life being a basketball and soccer player on competitive leagues giving her that combative edge to succeed in battles and competitions.

7:00 Speakeasy
A rock/blues band of three Emerson alums, Garrett Bevins on guitar, Erol Kavvas on drums & Richie Rehal on bass, will play original & cover rock & blues material.


Sunday April 13

12:15 Davis Klezmer Orchestra
Members of the Davis Klezmer Orchestra include Emerson parents and friends Moreen Libet on viola, Ralph Libet on fiddle, Julie Partansky on cornet, marimba and ukelele, and Elaine Fingerett on accordion. They will perform klezmer music, which is a traditional style of Eastern European party music with a Mediterranean flavor.

1:00 PM Rita Hosking and Cousin Jack
Rita Hosking (Emerson Social Studies teacher) and her band, Cousin Jack, deliver original mountain-roots music, from soulful ballads to bluegrass drive. "Her voice has that lonely, experienced voice of the mountain people, though her mountains were in Northern California." -the California Bluegrass Association. Cousin Jack will be Sean Feder on banjo and dobro, Bill Dakin on bass and guitar, and Andy Lentz on fiddle. Come enjoy local, acoustic Americana at its best!

2:00 PM Affection
Talented singers Amelia Wagner and Jen Palmer, ninth graders at Emerson, will perform cover songs and some original material.

2:20 El Trio is comprised of an Emerson parent and César Chávez Elementary School staff (Ana María Currea, Mariluz Holguin, Ximena Jackson), singing and playing guitars and tiple. They will perform traditional Latin American songs including Colombian, Chilean, Peruvian, Argentinean, and Mexican music.

3:00 PM Sax by Popular Demand a group of predominantly high school age saxophonists, with rhythm section and occasionally a trumpet on some tunes to add a little spice, will perform traditional Jazz as well as light rock and swing tunes like "Singing in the Rain", "Don't Know Why" and "Blues in the Night". Under the direction of Celia Cottle, this band will once more perform at the International Jazz Jubilee in Sacramento over Memorial Day weekend as it has the past 8 years.

4:00 The J Street Jazz Cats - An advanced jazz band of Davis junior and senior high players, under the direction of Celia Cottle, will perform big band swing tunes and famous Traditional Jazz songs such as "Stormy Weather","Night Train" and "Ain't Misbehavin' . This band will also be performing at the Jazz Jubilee in Sacramento again this year.

5:00 - Jazzamatazz - A band of Davis junior high musicians, under the direction of Celia Cottle, will perform jazz, latin, and light rock favorites including the Peter Gunn theme, the James Bond theme, El Gato Gordo, and Chattanooga Choo Choo.

6:00 You will feel like you are in India when you hear Aditya Sundaresan, Emerson student, on sitar, and his father Ven Sundaresan on tabla, who will perform Evening Raga.

6:20 Frances McChesney, Emerson PTA president and parent, will take us to the Highlands of Scotland with her performance on bagpipes.