This holiday season comes with its full compliment of Christmas parties, weddings, and celebrations ranging in instrumentation from solo piano to sax quartet + vocalist. Need music for your holiday party? Visit calebneijazz.com/booking or contact me here. I do have a few openings including Friday, December 8th and Saturday, December 16th. Have another date you’d
My gigging life documented in images. Follow me on Instagram at instagram.com/calebneijazz. Waiting for tonight's trio concert at The Woodlands Retirement Community. A photo posted by Caleb, a DC Area Jazz Pianist (@calebneijazz) on Nov 1, 2016 at 4:23pm PDT A photo posted by Caleb, a DC Area Jazz Pianist (@calebneijazz) on Nov 14, 2016
What a December! In fact, it’s been quite a year. From the usual gigs at V2 and Lightfoot, to a big band gig for elementary school students, to being part of a trio providing live background music for the silent film Speedy, to the Ritz-Carleton Tysons Corner, to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Last weekend I got to play for a birthday party in one of the conference rooms in the Supreme Court building. I’ve played in a lot of really great venues in Washington, DC, but so far this was the most august. They have a perfect Steinway B that made the entire evening a joy. (The
OCT 1 Solo Piano | Jazz Standards Sat 5 PM Lord & Taylor Fairfax, VA OCT 7 Solo Piano | Private Event Fri 5 PM Historic Rosemont Manor Berryville, VA OCT 7 Solo Piano | Jazz Standards Fri 8 PM Village Square Restaurant and V2 Piano Bar & Lounge Winchester, VA OCT 8 Trio |
On Tuesday I played for a dinner at the Freer Gallery of Art in DC. Piano, upright bass and sax. What a great venue! We played right outside the Peacock room. For a fascinating history of the Peacock Room check out this presentation by the Google Cultural Institute. Here are of artwork at the gallery:
Last Wednesday I played for an event at the National Portrait Gallery for Andy Kushner Entertainment. Here are a few photos from that event: Photos courtesy of Kaveh Sardari.
Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of playing more in the Washington, DC area. I live about an hour to the west of DC and had been focusing my marketing on Loudoun County. Thanks to Google, I’ve been getting more calls from within the district. In fact, I’ve played in DC area three times this week.
Here are all of the jazz dates I’m playing in September. Hope to see you at one of them. I’ve got some solo, some trio, some with a vocalist, and more! To be sure you have the latest information, double-check my Facebook events page facebook.com/calebneijazz/events. If you’re finding this page and it’s no longer September,
On Saturday I played for a wedding at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Here are a few photos from the event. For this event the piano was placed in the center of the dinner tables. One of the pictures in the gallery. Sorry I didn’t make notes about the details. Always love