2024-2025 AGAR AMHERST JAVA & JAZZ SERIES ARCHIEVES

​AGAR AMHERST JAVA & JAZZ
2024-2025 Series
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Second Stage | Amherst
 194 2nd Street, Amherst VA 24521 434-941-0997
AUGUST 2024 ​JAVA & JAZZ

​2024-2025 Amherst Java & Jazz

Season Premier Concert
6-8 pm
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

Keyboardist and vocalist Lew Taylor

Veteran drummer
Larry Scott 
​
Bassist Bob Bowen
SEPTEMBER 2024 ​JAVA & JAZZ
6-8 pm
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

Isaac Williams, piano

Charles Bailey,
electric bass

Brian Cox, drums

Including songs in memory  of Isaac’s mentor & friend Jane Baber White.
OCTOBER 2024 ​JAVA & JAZZ
6-8 pm
Sat., October 26, 2024

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

Al Mallet, alto & tenor sax

Ernest Deane, trumpet & flugelhorn

Ed Mikenas, bass

Glenn Buck, woodwinds

Gary Meisner, piano
​
Worth Proffitt, drums
NOVEMBER 2024 ​JAVA & JAZZ

​6-8 pm
Sat., November 23, 2024

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

Ken Matthews and his Jazz Quartet
bring you an Evening of Ballads, Basso Nova, and Blues favorites from the 1960s.

Amherst Glebe Arts Response (AGAR) and Second Stage I Amherst
invite you to put on your autumn sweater and enjoy these fall favorites
of Amherst Java and Jazz. Lynchburg's Ken Matthews leaves his "Laissez Foure" Louisiana sound quartet tunes behind to concentrate with a new quartet on standards of Jazz.

TICKETS:
(Ticket price includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee.) To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 5:15 pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.
DECEMBER 2024 JAVA & JAZZ

​6-8 pm
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

Glenn Buck, piano; Ernest Deane, trumpet;
Ed Mikenas, bass; and Worth Proffitt, drums.

The Bethlehem Boys will bring you an evening of tuneful stocking stuffers and jazzy seasonal and original tunes to make your season bright! Enjoy your holidays with this evening of Amherst Java & Jazz at Second Stage | Amherst.

TICKETS:
(Ticket price includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee.) To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 5:30pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.
JANUARY 2025 ​JAVA & JAZZ

​6-8 pm
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

Joseph Henson, saxophone
Jon Werking, piano
Jonah Horton, bass
Jay Ware, drums

The quartet will play lesser known standards including “For Regulars Only,” “Society Red,” and “Chromazone;”as well as new originals by Henson including “Superhero,” “Resonance,” and “As Long As You're Here.”.

TICKETS:
(Ticket price includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee.) To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 5:30pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.
MARCH 2025 ​JAVA & JAZZ

​6-8 pm
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

Patti Finn, vocalist
Russ Pawlas drums
Glenn Buck piano
Ed Mikenas, bass


Lynchburg’s favorite chanteuse, Patti Finn, in an evening of songscapes, a unique mix of popular and unexpected jazz charts & torch songs. 
TICKETS:
(Ticket price includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee.) To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 5:30pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.
APRIL 2025
​JAVA & JAZZ
6-8 pm
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Live at
​Second Stage | Amherst
​194 2nd Street
Amherst, VA 24521

The group explores ‘Celestial Improvisation’
and the Inner Spaces of their Musical Universe:
Rhythm and Blues, Western Swing, Jazz,
and a big serving of Original Tunes.

Ed Mikenas
console steel guitar

Worth Proffitt
drums & percussion

Andy Aeschbacher
bass
TICKETS:
(Ticket price includes one free cup of coffee, water, or soda, with food for purchase from Baine’s Books & Coffee.)
To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 5:30pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.
MAY 2025
​JAVA & JAZZ
6-8 pm
Saturday, May 24, 2025

Amherst County Museum and Historical Society Hamble Center*
(Located in back of main museum building, 154 South Main Street, Amherst, VA 24521)

*Due to a scheduling conflict the
May Java & Jazz was moved from Second Stage | Amherst.

Presenting  the music of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Wayne Shorter & TSB originals.


Bob Bowen
Contrabass

Lew Taylor
keyboards and vocals

Larry Scott
percussion


​TICKETS:
(Free coffee, soda or water will  be available with ticket but there will be no food for purchase.) To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 5:30pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.
JUNE  2025 ​JAVA & JAZZ
6-8 pm
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Second Stage | Amherst
194 2nd Street, Amherst, VA 24521


Gary Meisner
Piano

Ernest Deane
Trumpet and Flugelhorn

Andy Aeschbacher
Bass


​TICKETS:
(Free coffee, soda or water will  be available with ticket but there will be no food for purchase.) To Purchase:
  • Pay at door: cash or checks only; doors open at 5:30pm.​
  • Pay Online: Reserve a ticket with credit card via Eventbrite by using the button below.