Bird Boot Camp
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Folly Theater 300 W. 12th St., Kansas City, Missouri
It’s going to be another all-day educational immersion into learning about the music and life of Mr. Parker on Saturday, August 21, 2021. Our Bird Boot Camp 2021 “featured celebrity” artist is Ronald McFadden from the legendarily brilliant McFadden Brothers’ fame. Ronald will interact with the campers musically and lead the Musical Salute in the lobby of the Folly at the end of the event. Bird Boot Camp 2021 features three combination group ensembles in breakout sessions as they study a particular Charlie Parker composition in detail with some of the foremost educators teaching jazz anywhere today.
Featuring Ronald McFadden, Will Matthews, Gerald Spaits, Dr. Justin Binek, Doug Auwarter, Prof. Clarence Smith, Dr. Todd Wilkinson, Dr. Mike Parkinson, Greg Carroll, with Keynote address by Chuck Haddix
Bird Boot Camp is an all ages educational event. It’s set up for instrumental musicians and although anyone would have fun attending, there is an inherent baseline ability prerequisite beyond beginner players who would be out of their depth most of the day. We are all “students” of Charlie Parker’s music.