Date and Time: Saturday, August 17, 2024; 7 PM to ~9 PM, with an intermission.
Location: Island Arts Center, 1127 US Rt 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Concert tickets: $25.
Table Reservation: $14 / $20

Reserve a table for seating at $14 for a 2-top, $20 for a 4-top, and BYOB. Table tickets are available online or at the door, first come-first served, and subject to availability. Tables tickets are not available from local ticket outlets.

Enjoy an informal cabaret-style evening featuring a fine jazz quartet of clarinet, concert grand piano, double bass, and drums! Relax at your own table while the quartet performs all-time favorite music from the Great American Songbook.

Neal Haiduck on clarinet and David Heckendorn on piano are joined by two of Burlington’s finest musicians: J.D. Haenni, accomplished bassist from New Orleans, and Dan Ryan on drums. A special guest is to be announced. (It’s a surprise—you’ll like it!)

The quartet will play—and sing—songs by composers they didn’t get around to last summer. This year you will hear music by George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Rodgers & Hart, Lerner & Loewe, and Matt Dennis. And music by Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Mercer, and others––some well-known, some not-so-well-known.

Haiduck and Heckendorn have performed and recorded together for many years in the New York City area. Clarinetist Neal Haiduck has played jazz and classical music in New York City, Montréal, London, Europe, South America, and Japan. He now makes his home in Burlington, where he makes the lively jazz scene.

Pianist David Heckendorn was the orchestrator for “Mr. Holland’s Opus.” His compositions have been performed in various American venues, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Birdland in New York City, and in Europe and East Europe. He lives in Ulster County, New York.