Jazz In the City

POMCO Group Presents Jazz in the City 2011 Thanks to POMCO Group for its commitment to Syracuse's near neighborhoods.

The Jazz in the City Neighborhood Outreach Concert Series--presented by POMCO Group--returns in 2011, featuring national and local jazz artists, plus talented students recruited from the Syracuse City Schools are given the opportunity to perform onstage with professional musicians.

POMCO Group Presents Jazz in the City once again will have four concerts in each quadrant of Syracuse, bringing not only music, fun, and community spirit to our city's near neighborhoods, but an economic boost as well!

Thursday, August 4 Dunk & Bright, 2648 S. Salina St. 7 p.m.

  • Rev. Blessed Sikhosana and the Voices of Africa
  • Gospel Music Workshop of America
  • The BlackLites

Thursday, August 11POMCO Group Parking Lot, Grant Boulevard and James Street 7 p.m.

Marion Meadows

Thursday, August 18 “Near West Side Multi-Cultural Block Party," Skiddy Park Noon to 7 p.m.

Salsa Son Timba

Wednesday, August 24 Little Italy, North Salina Street 400 block 7 p.m.

Four80East with special guest Marcus Anderson

Thank You to Our JITC 2011 Sponsors

Sponsorship opportunities are still available, for the whole concert series or individual neighborhood concerts! Call (315) 479-JAZZ (5299) or e-mail Larry Luttinger.

JITC's Positive Outcomes

Aside from its goals to reconnect urban residents to America's art form of jazz, to bring diverse groups from the suburbs and the neighborhoods together, and to provide educational and cultural benefits to youth and residents, CNY Jazz’s successful summer program POMCO Group Presents Jazz in the City has a proven history of achieving the following positive outcomes:

  • INNER CITY SYRACUSE C.S.D. STUDENT MUSICIANS are featured in concert with adult mentoring professionals of color, performing to an audience that includes their neighbors—where no such artistic opportunity existed before.
  • SIX THOUSAND DIVERSE AUDIENCE MEMBERS from surrounding neighborhoods, the city, and the suburbs witness these performances, increasing the vitality of our urban areas and the unity of its residents—where no such performance opportunity existed before.
  • FOUR UNDERUTILIZED CITY PARKS, neighborhood centers, and commercial corridors gain meaningful use, and surrounding neighborhoods may see their very first public event, presented in some cases to residents physically or economically unable to travel to any exhibitions of African-American, Latin-American, or other multi-cultural performing art—where no such cultural opportunity existed before.
  • TWENTY-FOUR URBAN ARTISTS gain meaningful employment in a chronically depressed job market.
  • EIGHT MINORITY OR NEIGHBORHOOD OWNED BUSINESSES are present (COST-FREE) as vendors at concerts, to their benefit and the benefit of the local economy.
  • MANY OTHER SURROUNDING BUSINESSES benefit economically from the influx of concert patrons—where no such economic/marketing vehicle existed before.
  • AN ANTI-VIOLENCE PROGRAM is given a public forum and vendor platform from which to disseminate information—where no such outreach vehicle existed before.
  • HOME HEADQUARTERS, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, THE NEAR WEST SIDE INITIATIVE, and other agencies that support our neighborhoods are encouraged to be present at the concerts.