Elevation at The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival

Elevate Vocal Arts' flagship, all-professional performing ensemble, Elevation, is Delaware’s only professional vocal ensemble. Elevation performances fuse traditional, classical choral music with jazz, hip-hop, R&B, storytelling, and spoken word. Unique to our model and our repertoire, we consider the vocal arts to be more than just singing and are inclusive of the many ways the human voice is used in creative and artistic expressions.

// The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is a week-long celebration of music, culture, and community honoring Wilmington’s own Clifford Brown, one of the most influential trumpet players in jazz history. Since its founding in 1989, the festival has grown into the largest free jazz festival on the East Coast, attracting thousands of music lovers from across the region and around the world.

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