Workshops run from 1pm-2:15pm. Free BONUS lecture to follow the workshops from 3pm-5pm!

Dr. Jolie Rocke Workshop: The Four V’s: Voice, Vision, Variety, & Value - Explore critical assets for a professional voice user. Understand these essential tools and learn how to utilize them to build a successful career.

Vincent Gardner: The origins of Jazz and how this African-American art form shaped popular music: This discussion illuminates the manner in which Jazz, America’s original art form was formed from hybrid African-American/European origins in New Orleans. Additionally, how those African-American traditions became the dominant and most recognized elements of the music, and through Louis Armstrong, virtuoso Jazz musician and America’s first crossover artist, those elements defined the way that all subsequents genres of music in America would be developed

Fade to Black Music Workshop

Dr. Jolie Rocke (Workshop) / Vincent Gardner (Lecture)