Donna McElroy

Community Artist

Residency at the Jazz

Cave February 10-13, 2006

Jazz vocalist and educator

Donna McElroy returned to

Nashville in February 2006

for a weekend residency

funded by a grant from the

Metro Arts Commission, Arts

Builds Communities. She

played two nights to packed

houses at the Jazz Cave

with a band consisting of

Lori Mechem, Roger

Spencer, Chris Brown,

Denis Solee, and George

Tidwell. She worked

intensively with a group of

vocal students at a Saturday

afternoon master class,

working with them on breath

control and using their

voices to maximum

potential. Sunday afternoon

was a Young People's

Concert attended by

children from all over the

city. Donna held them

spellbound, teaching about

the history and sounds of

jazz and helping them

connect jazz to the popular

music familiar to most of

them.

Photos 1-4 by Scott

Hammacher (official

photographer of the

Nashville Jazz Workshop!).

Other photos by Louise

Barnes