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The non-profit music organization San Jose Jazz, which is responsible for 30 years of the San Jose Jazz Festival, launched its “Live from Home” livestream concert series in June 2020. On July 16, Nicole performed songs from her seven-CD repertoire plus a few surprises, including a Nina Simone Civil Rights Movement anthem “I Wish I Knew How It Feels to Be Free,” a Bill Withers fave and a 1991 Mariah Carey tune, “Vanishing.” This bi-monthly series also serves as a fundraising

The South Florida non-profit arts presenter Global Arts Project created their Safe & Sound series to continue serving their community with live music, and now in fact, the global community as well. To launch this new livestream series, Global Arts Project brought out some heavy hitting entertainers from the South Florida jazz world. Keeping safety standards, the City of Miami Beach and the South Beach Design Group helped present this 7-piece band in a virtual full length con

The pandemic has hit everyone hard, including the non-profits that often help serve our most vulnerable neighbors... The Miami Music Project is one of those who serves 600+ Miami-Dade county school children during the school year with free music lessons and tutoring daily, after-school. The organization quickly responded and moved all lessons to virtual experiences and they managed to maintain the full teaching staff, the majority of whom are ‘gigging’ music professionals as