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Jazz Fest Pompano Beach Welcomes Grammy® Award-Winning Lineup – Two-Day Festival Features Arturo Sandoval, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Nestor Torres & More!

November 24, 2021 Carma Henry 0

Pompano Beach Arts is proud to announce the City’s inaugural Jazz Fest, featuring a dynamic lineup of music icons. The star-studded festival kicks off at The Great Lawn along the beach for an evening concert with ten-time Grammy® Award-winner Arturo Sandoval on Friday, January 28, 2022 at 8 pm. Day two is an immersive musical extravaganza at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center. During the afternoon, the center’s ArtsPlaza will be filled with the sounds of legendary artists including Sammy Figueroa, Bryan Lynch, Magela Herrera, Ashley Pezzotti, in addition to emerging and student artists under the direction of Grammy Award-winning professor Dr. Ed Calle. In the evening, Grammy® and Tony® Award-winner, singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, takes the stage inside the center’s theater. Jazz Fest Pompano Beach is a partnership with KCC Productions, a well-known concert and festival production company. Ticket information at www.pompanobeacharts.org/jazzfest […]

Olympian Allyson Felix Receives NNPA National Leadership Award

October 6, 2021 Carma Henry 0

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Felix had joined the Hear Her campaign to share her story and raise awareness about urgent warning signs that could indicate life-threatening complications during and in the year after pregnancy. Because of her bold and tireless work, Felix received the 2021 National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) National Leadership Award for excellence and innovative leadership in Black America. […]

Malcolm-Jamal Warner Joins Exit 36 Slam Poetry Festival as Celebrity Judge

September 16, 2021 Carma Henry 0

Pompano Beach Arts is proud to announce that television icon Malcolm-Jamal Warner is joining the fourth annual Exit 36 Slam Poetry Festival as a celebrity judge. The famed star of The Cosby Show and current hit The Resident will also be performing his poetry at the festival and sharing thoughts about his career during an Artist Talk. The three-day event attracts the premier spoken word artists in the country and will take place December 9-11, 2021, at the City’s cultural venues. Event details and in-person and virtual tickets are available at www.pompanobeacharts.org/exit-36. […]

Miami-Dade County’s Kathleen Woods-Richardson to chair United Way Women’s Leadership Council

July 19, 2012 Carma Henry 0

The council is an executive committee of women who guide and shape United Way’s Women’s Leadership program which promotes service and philanthropy among its 1,700 members.
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