Soapbox Gallery

The Greenhouse Creators Consortium will present an innovative festival featuring workshops and performances in association with One Breath Rising, the Festival of New Trumpet Music, and Continuum Culture and Arts, Inc. The event features jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin & her Trio and poet Nancy Mercado, alongside various artists focused on the art of improvised music.

The Greenhouse Creators Consortium will present an innovative festival featuring workshops and performances in association with One Breath Rising, the Festival of New Trumpet Music, and Continuum Culture and Arts, Inc. The event features jazz vocalist Vanessa Rubin & her Trio and poet Nancy Mercado, alongside various artists focused on the art of improvised music.

Billy Lester, from Yonkers, NY, began playing piano at age 41/2 and studied with the great Jazz master improviser Sal Mosca for 15 years. His music is a high-wire act of improvisation that plunges into the American songbook to interrogate, dismantle, and rebuild it on his own terms.