Jay Senter
Jay Senter
Jazz Festival
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Prairie Village Jazz Festival unveils 2014 schedule, world renowned KC natives to headline

Shay Estes and Trio ALL at Prairie Village Jazz Festival
Shay Estes returns to the Prairie Village Jazz Festival this September. She also performed at the event in 2011.
Shay Estes and Trio ALL at Prairie Village Jazz Festival
Shay Estes returns to the Prairie Village Jazz Festival this September. She also performed at the event in 2011.

Organizers of the Prairie Village Jazz Festival have released the lineup for this year’s event, set for Saturday, September 6.

This year’s headliners will be Kevin Mahogany with the Joe Cartwright Trio, and Deborah Brown with Joe Lovano and Terell Stafford. Both Mahogany and Brown are Kansas City natives, but are renowned throughout the world for their jazz vocals. The event will also feature SM East’s award-winning jazz band as the opening act.

The full schedule will be as follows:

2:00 – 2:10 Welcome
2:10 – 2:40 Shawnee Mission East High School Jazz Band
3:00 – 3:50 Project H
4:10 – 5:00 Shay Estes with Rod Fleeman and Matt Otto
5:20 – 6:10 The Jazz Disciples
6:30 – 7:20 Bram Wijnands Swingtet
7:40 – 8:40 Kevin Mahogany with the Joe Cartwright Trio
9:00 – 10:30 Deborah Brown with Joe Lovano and Terell Stafford

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About the author

Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Johnson County Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

His reporting has appeared in the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and The New York Times, among other publications.

Senter was the recipient of the Johnson County Community College Headliner Award in 2023.

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