On Sunday April 7, 2019, the Vermont Jazz Center will host a Benefit Dance Party for the Brattleboro Women’s Chorus, featuring three of Brattleboro’s signature southern roots music ensembles, Bayou X, SOVESA (the VJC Samba Ensemble), and the Celebration Brass Band of VT. The Party will take place from 5 - 8 pm. Light refreshments and snacks, sweet and savory, will be provided. This will be a non-alcoholic event. Suggested donation, $10 - $50. The VT Jazz Center is located on the 2nd Floor of the Cotton Mill Building, 72 Cotton Mill Hill, Brattleboro VT.

Bayou X is the local region’s unique high energy Cajun/Creole dance band, performing both original and traditional Cajun & Zydeco dance music of southwest Louisiana, as well as original and traditional music derived from the global Creole diaspora, including New Orleans R&B, popular and folkloric tunes from Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe & St Lucia, Trinidadian calypso, West African Hi-Life, Congolese Rhumba, and an ever evolving variety of Southern roots music genres. Their recent CD, Your Mother Must Be Something Special, was released in the Spring of 2018. More info to be found at their website, www.bayouxband.com .

SOVESA is the Brazilian Samba Ensemble of the Vermont Jazz Center. If SOVESA doesn’t get you moving your feet, you may have a mobility problem, but the music and the rhythms will still move your soul!

Celebration Brass Band of VT, is northern New England’s signature New Orleans brass band ensemble. Since 2009, the band has been the sounds and traditions that gave birth to Jazz in the place of it’s birth. As of 2019, the CBB has begun to augment it’s deep book of traditional tunes with the more contemporary sounds of brass band funk, modern jazz, and global Afro-Creole musical traditions. Featuring a lineup of a lot of Brattleboro’s leading musicians, the Celebration Brass Band will lift you up and keep you dancing ‘til the cows come home… annually, at the Strolling of the Heifers!