COTA Festival Orchestra

Cota Festival Orchestra Featuring Sax Legend Phil Woods to Perform on November 12th

Source: Michael Ricci
October 23, 2009

East Stroudsburg, PA--Imagine a place where youngsters learn to play jazz at the feet of world-class professionals; a camp where kids have fun with other kids while developing mentoring relationships with nurturing jazz elders. Now, add a library where these budding musicians can immerse themselves in recordings, photographs, books, videos, sheet music and oral history interviews of the legends of jazz.

Too good to be true? Well, this wonderful opportunity already exists, right here in the Poconos, in the forms ...
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Phil Woods and the Cota Festival Orchestra Premieres "Library Alive"

Source: All About Jazz
April 4, 2008

Phil Woods and the COTA Festival Orchestra to play premiere concert for “Library Alive" Series at Sherman Theater, April 13 Phil Woods and the Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts (COTA) Festival Orchestra will launch a new concert series, “Library Alive," on Sunday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. at the Sherman Theater in downtown Stroudsburg. Featuring NEA Jazz Master Woods, the Grammy-nominated orchestra will perform music selected from the Al Cohn Memorial Jazz Collection (ACMJC) of East Stroudsburg University ...
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