Columbus Jazz Orchestra pays tribute to Rosa Parks with “Suite Rosa.” Often regarded as the beginning of the modern civil rights movement, Parks’ famous refusal to give up her bus seat is commemorated in this world premiere of John Clayton’s piece “Suite Rosa.”

It’s time to introduce Ohio’s very own Superman of Art. Recent recipient of a Governor’s Award for the Arts is sculptor, Emmy-nominated musician, performer, arts educator, and all around interesting guy Michael Jerome Bashaw.

As summer festival season continues, here’s a sampling of what’s going on around Central Columbus through the rest of July.

This fall, after a two-year whirlwind tour performing at some of the world’s hottest jazz festivals, Monaco is launching an undergraduate major in Hammond B3 organ playing at Capital University’s Conservatory of Music.

Summer festival season is getting into full swing! Learn about upcoming arts and music festivals around Central Ohio.

Evil Dead: The Musical offers its audience squirts of fake blood that they might not have expected, but the musical’s audience has offered its producers something they didn’t expect: first-time theater goers.

Shadowbox Live opened the Columbus Commons downtown with the musical ‘Back to the Garden’ about Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

The Johnstone Fund for New Music and Columbus’s own dancers, musicians and speakers presented Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale at the Columbus Foundation on May 1st.

Watch a video about the making of ‘Columbus Neighborhoods: King Lincoln’ documentary. Saxophonist Michael Cox shares with us all about how to approach a movie score; and some very talented local jazz musicians do what they do best.