Lil’ Maceo, FREE SummerSounds Concert

August 7, 6:30 pm- 8 pm – Lil’ Maceo
All concerts at the Harris Pavilion – Rain or Shine!

Each year, the ARTfactory, in partnership with Micron, the City of Manassas and the Harris Pavilion offers a series of free concerts. The popular concerts are scheduled on Saturday evenings throughout the summer. Bring your chairs, blankets, and picnics to enjoy these concerts with your friends and neighbors!

SummerSounds is partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

International Saxophonist Kareem Walkes, is quickly becoming one of contemporary jazz’s most thrilling and emotive performers, and continues to stand out and push boundaries as a composer, performer, and recording artist. He’s becoming the go-to sax-man for artists like Cyril Neville, Li’nard’s Many Moods, and Blues Hall Of Famer Slam Allen. Kareem’s playing, though inspired by Maceo Parker and Candy Dulfer, among others, displays his own fresh ideas and distinctive tone. Born and raised in Queens New York, home to many Jazz legends like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie to name a few, Kareem has been breathing powerful, soulful, raw energy into his saxophone since the age of 18.  Kareem’s musical journey began as a star tenor saxophonist with his high school band and then quickly sky-rocketed.  Soon thereafter, Kareem shared a televised musical stage with a tremendous gathering of jazz legends, including Harold Ousley, Sonny Rollins, Benny Waters, Lionel Hampton, and G. Earl Grice to name a few on the cable program “Harold Ousley & His Circle of Friends”.

Kareem’s mastery of the soprano saxophone earned him the laudable nickname “the Black Kenny G” and as a smooth jazz soprano saxophonist, Kareem has recorded 2 albums entitled “Passion” and “Sax and the City.”  Kareem’s 3rd album “Grown & Saxy” a “Pop” jazz album, is slated for a Fall release.
https://www.kareemwalkes.com/index.html