Summer Swing ’23

The Eric Richards Jazztet presents Summer Swing ’23 Friday, July 28 at 7pm in Kinnison Hall at the Whitney Center for the Arts at Sheridan College, and Saturday, July 29 at 11am on the porch of the historic Sheridan Inn in downtown Sheridan.

Both concerts are free and open to the public.

The group will be performing a wide-ranging program of jazz to include original compositions, swing, funk, Brazilian music, standards from the Great American Songbook, summer pop, and Dixieland. Friday evening’s concert is the Finale of Sheridan College’s 2023 Music Tech Camp. The program will feature Sheridan College’s newly acquired Hammond B-3 organ, a classic keyboard sound heard on many of the jazz, pop, and soul tracks of the 1960’s through today.

We are very grateful to the Witzel Foundation for supporting the purchase of this important recording and performance instrument for our students. Trombonist/composer/arranger Eric Richards (Director of Bands & Jazz Studies at Sheridan College) leads this ensemble, which is comprised of some of the finest jazz musician-educators in the region: Elana Hayden, vocals (Billings, MT) Erik Olson, keyboards (Billings MT) Mark Dorn, trumpet (Colorado Christian University) Scott Jeppesen, saxophone (Montana State University Billings) Alex Naumann, guitar (Billings MT) Mike Leslie, bass (Billings MT) Zach Paris, drums (Northwest College, Powell WY) For more information, contact erichards@sheridan.edu/(307) 675-0733