The Dellview Concert:A Journey through Time explores
the mid century neighborhood of Dellview in San Antonio Texas. The
concert will be performed by Bett Butler and Joel Dilley and feature
images and artwork along with story telling to create a fabric of
experience that Dellview has produced to honor this area in the heart of
San Antonio.
Bett Butler and Joel Dilley are fantastic jazz performers and
songwriters (Bett plays the piano and does vocals; Joel is plays
acoustic bass). They recently received an Artist Foundation Grant and
are always in their studio producing theirs or others music for all to
enjoy. (see below for info on them)
I am honored to know them and when DANA (Dellview Area Neighborhood
Association) needed to jump start their efforts for arts in the
community we applied for a CAAP Grant from the City of San Antonio to
match our funds-I knew Bett Butler and Joel Dilley were the ticket! I
love working with them and they are a professional and generous artistic
team, making everyone feel part of the big picture with their music and
song. My artwork will also be featured in the display of images during
the concert because I am a Dellview resident, living there since 1998,
five years after I moved to San Antonio from Chicago.
The concert will be performed at the St.Mark's United Methodist Church, 1902 Vance Jackson, San Antonio TX 78213 at 7pm. If you need
further information please contact me at dellviewdelly@hotmail.com. If
you have any Dellview memories or photos send them my way too.
Thanks to all you generous folks that have already sent me your images from the past and/or present. Our visuals are looking very good! Best of all, the concert will be free and open to the public to experience!!!!
More info at:
http://artistdata.sonicbids.com/bett-butler--jol-dilley/blogs/the-dellview-concert-a-journey-through-time/134747/
Dellview area is inside 410 Vance Jackson from I-10 to West Avenue.
*WINNER, 1ST PLACE, JAZZ CATEGORY, 2006 INTERNATIONAL SONG COMPETITION
*WINNER, PERFORMING ARTS CATEGORY, 2006 ARTIST FOUNDATION GRANT
*ORIGINAL SONGS LICENSED BY HBO, FOOD NETWORK, TRAVEL CHANNEL, 2008-2010
Their
backgrounds couldn't have been more different. Bett Butler grew up in
relative ease, her early musical experiences confined to church,
school, and talent shows; while by age fourteen, Joël Dilley had
endured great loss and was already touring to support his family as a
professional musician. They met in San Antonio, when the fledgling jazz
singer finally got up the courage to contact the first-call bassist
for a gig. Their shared passion for music spilled over into the
personal realm, and they married and built a recording studio and indie
co-op record label, Dragon Lady Records. Along the way, Dilley toured
internationally and played with Willie Nelson, Eddie “Cleanhead”
Vinson, Herb Ellis, Tal Farlow, Arturo Sandoval, Richie Cole, Russian
classical/jazz pianist Valery Grokhovsky, and regional symphony
orchestras. He was a featured guest bassist on Public Radio
International's "Whad'Ya Know," a featured composer on Texas Public
Radio's "Classical Spotlight," and a featured soloist on Gemini Ink's
"Writers Respond to Art" series at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Compositions from his three critically-acclaimed CDs have been licensed
for broadcast and commercial use worldwide, including tracks on HBO,
the Food Network, and the Travel Channel. He produced Butler's first
album of original music, which won a "recommended" rating from All
Music Guide; and her second, which won a performance grant from the San
Antonio Artist Foundation and included “When Love Has Left the Room,"
first place winner in the Jazz category of the 2006 International
Songwriting Competition out of over 10,000 entries worldwide. Butler
has also been included in the San Antonio Business Journal's annual
list of "Women of Influence in the Arts," chosen by the City of San
Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs for artist development training by
the Creative Capital Foundation, and featured as the OCA's artist of
the month. Earlier this year, she was the inaugural recipient of the
Texas Music Coalition's Fred Weiss Memorial Grant for professional
development.
Bett Butler and Joël Dilley are the core of a variety of successful shows and ensembles:
THE
ART OF THE DUET, with Butler on piano/vocals and Dilley on acoustic
bass, performs rhythmic original world music and standards in intimate
settings, often with surprising bass/vocal duets.
THE CHAMBER JAZZ TRIO adds another contrapuntal voice with flugelhorn player Cecil R. Carter or violinist Jonathan Raveneau.
TRIO
AZUL pairs the duo with opera-trained Mexico City-born vocalist Azul
Barrientos, giving fresh voice to traditional Latin, folk, and gypsy
music.
THE NEW WORLD ENSEMBLE ranges from four to eight players
and features original world fusion with vocalist Azul on guitar and
jarana, violinist Raveneau, drums, horns, and percussion.
GENIUSES
OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE features Butler in a series of
hour-long performance/lectures with author Dr. Herb Keyser on the lives
and music of the composers and lyricists who authored the Great
American Songbook.
