Concerts scheduled for 2011 – 2012:

Nov. 20: HOCJO plays at the Broad Street Cafe in Durham from 7:30pm – 10pm

Jan. 7: HOCJO with guest Vocalist and Narrator Pam Saulsby at the Halle Cultural Center in Apex

feb. 4: HOCJO with guest Vocalist and Narrator Pam Saulsby at the Temple Theatre

Feb. 25: HOCJO annual 4th Annual Big Band Dinner/Dance at Carolina Trace Country Club in Sanford is being rescheduled. Please check back for more inormation.

past events:

Oct. 8th, 8pm at the Temple Theatre in Sanford – The Heart of Carolina Jazz Orchestra featuring Grammy Award Winner and Latin Jazz Flutist, Dave Valentin in concert accompanied by guest percussionist, Ramon Ortiz and guest pianist, Antonio Ossario

Excerpt from an interview int the New York Times, “The jazz flutist Dave Valentin has toured the world as a headliner, playing with everyone from Tito Puente to McCoy Tyner, but he always returns to the Bronx, where he was born 59 years ago. Home is a modest one-story bachelor pad in Harding Park, a hidden waterfront stretch of winding streets, close neighbors — and the occasional crowing rooster — better known as Little Puerto Rico. He won a Grammy in 2002 with Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project, and this month he will release his latest album, “Pure Imagination,” in which he overdubs himself playing five flutes. Not surprisingly, Sundays usually include at least one practice session…….” June 5, 2011

Oct. 15th – HOCJO plays at 3pm at Sertoma Ampitheatre in Cary

Jan. 7 – HOCJO plays at Halle Cultural Center in Apex. The program will feature Big Band Music by Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington.

Jan. 8 – HOCJO plays at Temple Theatre. The program will feature big band music by Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Benny Carter, Duke Ellington.

Winter: Singer/Songwriter competition

Mar 25, 2011 – 4th Annual Big Band Dance at Carolina Trace

The Heart of Carolina Jazz Society, Incorporated is a non-profit corporation whose purpose is to foster, promote and increase public knowledge of jazz through educational actvities, including the encouragement and sponsorship of performances and instruction in the field of jazz in central North Carolina. (Photo by Mollie Tobias for Outreach NC)