NORTH BEND THEATRE will show the LIVESTREAM
of the performance for free! Thank you!
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Missed the performance? Watch these videos.
Original high quality video from KING 5 of whole set: click here Video taken at the North Bend Theatre showing. (thank you KG!) Introduction, Mr. Wenman’s remarks, and the first song - So Easy: https://youtu.be/1_ytqrzIwpk 2nd song - Rocks in My Bed: https://youtu.be/NuLnd1u56z8 3rd song - Symphony in Riffs: https://youtu.be/I5OpIF6emVw Post performance interview: https://youtu.be/fgShal2CwMQ All 4 segments playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_lQhGgQhr-A8N5B4joqCyphGxcm2ZuVS The rest of the EE festival will be streamed at livestream.com\jazz. |
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Photos of the performance taken at North Bend Theatre. We are looking for more good photos! If you have good photos, please email them to us here! |
Mount Si goes to Essentially Ellington!
Only 3 weeks left!
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Donate today!This button will take you to the Paypal page,
PLEASE enter "EE" in the input box provided on that page, and enter "yes" if we can list your last name.
Donations made here will go to the Mount Si Band Boosters Ellington fund. Donations are tax deductible; please check if your employer provides matching funds. Go to our Donate page for more information on taxes and Microsoft matching.
Bringing the jazz band to New York City costs $38,000 and requires many financial supporters. Thank you for your donation! Individual donors: with your permission we will list you as a supporter. Otherwise we will say "anonymous". Business supporters: Please email us here. To donate by check, please make it payable to MSHS Band Boosters and send to MSHS Band Boosters, PO box 92, North Bend, WA 98045. Please write "EE" on the memo line. 
2016-2017 Mount Si High School Jazz 1
(photo courtesy Calder Productions)
The Essentially Ellington festival runs May 11-13, 2017, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.
The performances are usually live streamed at livestream.com/jazz. Mount Si performs Friday May 12 at 11:30 am PDT (2:30 pm in NYC) The complete performance schedule is below. Three bands will be selected to play in the final concert on Saturday night. |
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Previous EE perfomances:
Click here to see Mount Si Jazz I's performance of St. Louis Blues on stage at Essentially Ellington 2016 Click here to see Mount Si Jazz I's performance of Brasilliance onstage at Essentially Ellington 2015. Follow these links to see pictures of Mount Si from previous years, EE2016, EE2015 and EE2014 |
Mount Si Jazz I performs in NYC at Essentially Ellington 2016
Mount Si at Essentially Ellington 2015
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What is Essentially Ellington?
The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Program (EE) is unique among educational resources for high school jazz bands. Each year Jazz at Lincoln Center transcribes, publishes, and distributes the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers along with additional educational materials to more than 3,300 high school bands in the U.S. and Canada and American schools abroad. All bands who receive the music are encouraged to submit a recording for the Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival held annually in New York City at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Fifteen finalist bands are selected and during the three-day festival in May, they participate in workshops, rehearsals, and competition, performing in Rose Theater before a panel of judges.
Click here to go to the official Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington website
The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Program (EE) is unique among educational resources for high school jazz bands. Each year Jazz at Lincoln Center transcribes, publishes, and distributes the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers along with additional educational materials to more than 3,300 high school bands in the U.S. and Canada and American schools abroad. All bands who receive the music are encouraged to submit a recording for the Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival held annually in New York City at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Fifteen finalist bands are selected and during the three-day festival in May, they participate in workshops, rehearsals, and competition, performing in Rose Theater before a panel of judges.
Click here to go to the official Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington website
WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR WONDERFUL COMMUNITY
FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!
FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!