Jazz series announces artists, schedule

Callanwolde Fine Arts Center has announced the artists who perform in the 2022 Jazz on

Lawn Concert Series. The concerts will kick off Aug. 26 with Samara Joy and tickets went on sale Friday.

Joy is a New York City-basedjazz singer who won the 2019 Sarah

Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and is currently at work on her first album.

Smooth jazz icon Bob Baldwin, an Atlanta hometown favorite, returns to Callanwolde for a Sept. 9 concert.

On Sept. 23, the featured band will be Eddie Lopez Orquesta

Macuba.

Atlanta pianist Joe Alterman will perform Oct. 7 with vocalist Karla Harris.

The series closes Oct. 21 with another local favorite, Joe Gransden’s Big Band.

COURTESY OF SCAD Hasani Sahlehe’s “Pharoah,” (left) acrylic gel and airbrushed acrylic on raw canvas, and Marcus Kenney’s “Act of Reason,” mixed media, rope, wax and mist ties, were donated by the Savannah College of Art and Design to the Meals on Wheels headquarters in Atlanta.