This events calendar includes Earl’s upcoming performances, compositional debuts, recordings and educational activities. On mobile devices this calendar is best viewed horizontally.
Upcoming Gigs
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Tue28Jan2025Wed29Jan2025
Myra Jazz Festival
Red River High School Performance Hall,
Grand Forks, North Dakota
The Myra Jazz Festival has been running continuously for over 30 years. It is a two-day festival for middle school and high school jazz bands in the upper Red River Valley. In addition to adjudicating and presenting clinic sessions, Earl will perform as a featured guest artist with the Myra Big Band. The festival is free and open to the public on both days. -
Sun02Feb2025
Chris Beaudry Quintet
3:00 PMHartford Public Library, 500 Main St, Hartford, CT 06103
Chris Beaudry – tenor sax,
Haneef Nelson – trumpet,
Earl MacDonald – piano,
Tyler Sherman – string bass,
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Fri07Feb2025
UConn High School Jazz Festival
9 AM - 6 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, 875 Coventry Rd, Storrs, CT
[directions and parking]
The annual UConn Jazz Festival is a non-competitive and educationally-rewarding experience that provides a forum for mutual support of each ensemble’s efforts while enhancing skills in the jazz idiom. Highlights of the festival include:
- a twenty-minute performance time for each ensemble,
- a twenty-minute personalized clinic by a UConn Jazz faculty member,
- beginning, intermediate, and advanced level improvisation master classes, and
- a mini-concert by the UConn Jazz Ensemble and UConn Jazz faculty.
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Sat15Mar2025
2025 Clark Terry UNH Jazz Festival - Adjudicator
7:30 AM - 5:30 PMUniversity of New Hampshire, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Music, Paul Creative Arts Center, 30 Academic Way Durham, NH 03824-2617
Earl will serve as an adjudicator at the 2025 Clark Terry UNH Jazz Festival on Saturday, March 15th, 2025. He will provide written and verbal comments and post performance clinics for participating ensembles. -
Sun30Mar2025
Steven Bulmer Trio - Jazz Brunch
11 AM - 2:30 PM
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103
Tickets include museum admission, brunch, and one complimentary bloody mary or mimosa.
There are two seatings, one at 10:30am & one at 12:30pm.
$39; $29 members. Tickets must be purchased online, in advance.Steven Bulmer - string bass, Scott Sasanecki - guitar, Earl MacDonald - piano
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Sun13Apr2025
UConn Jazz Lab Band
3:00 - 4:30 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT
General admission is $10.
Students, faculty, children and military members with ID are admitted free.Earl MacDonald, director
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Thu17Apr2025Fri18Apr2025
Michael Abene Residency at UConn
University of Connecticut Music Department
- 10:00–11:00 AM: Meeting with jazz arranging students
- 1:25–2:15 PM: Presentation at Music Convocation for music students
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Tue22Apr2025
UConn Jazz Combos
8 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT
General admission is $10.
Students, faculty, children and military members with ID are admitted free.Steven Bulmer, director
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Fri25Apr2025Sun27Apr2025
58th NAfME Eastern Division In-Service Conference
Hartford Convention Center
UConn Jazz Ensemble performance. Time TBA
April 26, 9 – 10AM: Jazz Pedagogy Round Table -
Sun27Apr2025
UConn Jazz Ensemble Concert, featuring arranger Michael Abene
6 PMvon der Mehden Recital Hall, Storrs, CT
General admission is $10.
Students, faculty, children and military members with ID are admitted free.John Mastroianni, director
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Mon14Jul2025Fri18Jul2025
Jazz In July Summer Music Program
Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jazz in July is a multi-generational jazz improvisation program with an impressive 40+ year history. It is a concentrated two-week program where both vocal and instrumental musicians study jazz improvisation with some of the nation’s best jazz educators and artists.The 2-week in-person program will run July 14-25, 2025. Earl will teach during the first week: July 14-18.
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Fri25Jul2025
Jazz in July All-Stars Concert
6 - 9PMAmherst Town Common, Amherst, Massachusetts
The Jazz-in-July All-Stars Concert is a round-robin style concert featuring collaborations between the nationally and internationally known Jazz in July faculty members.Although subject to change, the anticipated roster of performers includes:Vocals: Sheila Jordan, Dominique Eade
Brass: Jeff Holmes, Haneef Nelson
Saxophone: Bruce Diehl, Felipe Salles, Frank Newton
Piano: Earl MacDonald, Lee Tomboulian, Stephen Page
Bass: Fumi Tomita, Avery Sharpe, Genevieve Rose
Guitar: Bob Ferrier
Drums: Steve Johns, Winard Harper, Greg CaputoThis concert is presented in cooperation with the Amherst Business Improvement District as part of their summer concert series.
