2024 Stony Run Friends Jazz Concert Program

Live & Livestreamed

The Quintet Delandria Mills

Featuring Janelle Gill, piano

Andrew Latona, guitar Chris Latona, drums Ameen Saleem, bass

With an opening set featuring

Friends School Jazz Ensemble

2024 Benefit Concert for Stony Run Friends Meeting & Baltimore Jazz Alliance Saturday, October 26 at 7 PM

About Stony Run Friends Meeting

Program

The Baltimore Monthly Meeting of Friends, Stony Run is a large, unprogrammed (without pastors or order of service) Quaker Meeting, with individuals and families of all ages, races, sexual orientations, and family makeup. Attendance at a Meeting for Worship can range from less than 10 people to more than 100. Visitors are warmly welcomed. Quakers have a long history of working for equality, social justice, and peace. Organizations and initiatives we support include: Stony Run Supports these Quaker Affiliates

Live performance at Stony Run Friends Meeting Livestream on YouTube Opening set: Friends School Jazz Ensemble Main act: The Delandria Mills Quintet

There will be one intermission

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC – National and South Region) Baltimore Yearly Meeting Camping Programs STRIDE Friends Church Baltimore Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) Friends Council on Education (FCE) Friends General Conference (FGC)

Friends Journal Friends Peace Teams

After the concert, meet the performers and enjoy refreshments downstairs l Event Planning Committee

Friends Wilderness Center Friends World Committee on Consultation (FWCC) Quaker Earthcare Witness Quaker United Nations Program

Quaker Voluntary Service Ramallah Friends Meeting

Stony Run’s Recent Work Includes Direct Support for these Organizations and Initiatives

Margaret Allen, Clerk Deborah Bedwell, Ann Marie Ketron, Hillary Kruh, Linda Loubert, Todd Marcus, Sandi Morton, Katherine Hancock Porter, Philip Porter, and Sara Workeneh With special help from: Alice Bedi, Gail Breyer, Nia Carvell-Allette, Becky Copeland, Julie Craft, Elizabeth Elliott, Ashley Gorby, Debbie Feldman Jones, Blaine Keener, Carter Lawson, Meg Boyd Meyer, Ziggy Moorehead, Leona Odour, Larry Reid, Meheret Workeneh, and Wade Zagurski

Baltimore Abortion Fund Children’s Peace Libraries, Rwanda Clay Pots / New Faith Ministry Franciscan Center Friends of Great Kids Farm Friends School Summer Outreach Program GEDCO • CARES Food Pantry Health Care for the Homeless Interfaith Action for Human Rights

Kaimosi Girls School, Kenya Loyola Clinic Marian House Maryland Ecumenical Council McKim Center Ntaseka Clinic in Burundi Right Sharing of World Resources UniFIED Efforts Woodberry Crossing

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The Performers

The Delandria Mills Quintet

Delandria Mills, a flutist, educator, and author, is a native of Houston, Texas. Mills is a graduate of Prairie View A&M University, and earned both her MM in Classical Flute and GPD in Jazz Studies from the Peabody Conservatory, where she now teaches. Mills is the founder of Kingdom Flute Works (KFW), her annual inten-

Festival. He has worked with artists including Jon Faddis, Paul Carr, Jazz- meia Horn, and The Julius Rodriguez Trio. He teaches jazz at The Cal- houn School (NYC), Jazz Academy of Music (MD), and Mid Atlantic Jazz Festival master classes. He earned his BFA from SUNY Purchase. Chris Latona , after starting with Paul Carr’s Jazz Academy of Music at 13, attended Oberlin College and Conservatory, earning two degrees in

history and jazz percussion, under instruction from NEA Jazz Master Billy Hart. As an Oberlin Sonny Rollins Scholar, he performed at SF Jazz in 2020 and in school and community venues in the Bay Area. He has per- formed in venues including Blues Alley and the Kennedy Center. He has performed with artists including Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Wayne Escoffery, Jon Faddis, Billy Childs, and Ed Cherry.

sive summer program. In addition to KFW and Peabody, she teaches for Baltimore City Schools and is the flute professor at Morgan State Univer- sity. Mills is a core member of the Maryland Winds and Robert Glasper’s Black Radio Orchestra. Mills has performed, recorded, and toured with artists including: Mary Mary, Tye Tribbett, Angelique Kidjo, Roy Har- grove, Billy Harper, and Hubert Laws. Mills has won national and interna- tional competitions and has seven recordings of her own. She is the author of a series of picture books for young children and a juvenile fiction novel series: Demi’s Flute: Discovering Notes and Sounds (picture books), and a young adult novel series entitled Demi’s Flute: Entering the Realm of Sound . Mills is a board member of the National Flute Association.

Music has taken the Latona brothers to the U.S. Embassy to the Vatican, where they organized concerts in celebration of the 35th anniversary of diplomacy between the U.S. and Vatican City. They are natives of Silver Spring and live in Brooklyn, NY.

Janelle Gill is a native Washingtonian and Howard University alum. Gill has worked with musicians such as Delfeyo Marsalis, Oliver Lake, David Murray, The Blackbyrds, Maurice Hines in his Tappin’ Through Life, Marshall Keys, Nasar Abadey, and Kris Funn. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, The Library of Congress, DC Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, and Baku Jazz Festival. She

Ameen Saleem incorporated jazz, blues, rock, R&B, punk, hip-hop and go-go into his studies at the Duke Ellington School of Arts and North Carolina Central University, where he molded his sound. He earned a Master of Jazz studies at Queens College but also learned on the streets of NY. Saleem has held the bass seat for the Winard Harper Sextet and has toured

served as musical director for the production of Toni Morrison’s Desdemona , which debuted at the Source Theater. Andrew Latona has played venues including Birdland, The Blue Note, and Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai, where his trio recently held a three-week residency; Blues Alley and Bohemian Cavern in Washington, DC; and the Mid Atlantic Jazz

the world with the Roy Hargrove Quintet and Big Band. His first album, Groove Lab Volume 1 , was released in 2015. In 2016, Ameen moved to Rome, Italy. He teaches bass and gives workshops around Europe. He has worked with artists including Jimmy Heath, Jimmy Cobb, Kenny Garrett, Andy Bey, Brian Horton, Eve Cornelius, Sullivan Fortner, Jon Baptiste, Keyon Harold, Victor Lewis, and Gerald Clayton. Recently he has collaborated with the Nicola Conte Spiritual Galaxy, Robin McKelle, Domenico Sanna, Jeff Ballard, and Joe Locke.

2024 Community Partner

Baltimore Jazz Alliance

The Baltimore Jazz Alliance promotes and supports jazz in the Baltimore region for the benefit of both artists and audiences by presenting, educating, collaborating, and informing, to foster the rich legacy of jazz in our community. Serving the Baltimore jazz community for over 20 years!

Visit baltimorejazz.com for everything you need to know about the Baltimore-area jazz scene!

* Find out where to hear live jazz on our calendar of events, or sign up to have a weekly events list delivered to your email * Read articles about the area's best jazz artists, venues, recordings, and personalities, by some of Baltimore's best writers * Learn about BJA's special programs like Jazz for Kids, the Baltimore Jazz Conference, and the Baltimore Jazz Fest

* Become a member to receive special benefits and support our work!

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Previous Community Partners

The Intercultural Counseling Connection connects mental health professionals (who provide culturally responsive counseling and therapeutic services) to asylum seekers, refugees, and other forced migrants, at no charge to the client. www.interculturalcounseling.org Interfaith Action for Human Rights (IAHR) represents people of faith in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland who advocate to end prison policies and practices that promote torture and solitary confinement, and to counter bigotry. www.interfaithactionhr.org Intersection of Change is dedicated to enriching the economic, social, and spiritual lives of those dealing with poverty-related issues in Sandtown-Winchester, Upton, and surrounding communities, by offering a recovery program for women, revitalizing the 1900 and 2000 blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue, and running an urban farm. www. intersectionofchange.org Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform (MAJR) is a bipartisan, statewide alli- ance seeking legislative changes in the state’s correctional poli- cies to support alternatives to incarceration, address inequities, and aid those returning from prison. www.ma4jr.org McKim Center in Baltimore’s Jonestown neighborhood creates a safe haven in a rocky world, connecting people throughout the city; empowering and motivating young people to work together and give their best; and developing new leaders and role models for upcoming generations. www.mckimcenter.org Pennsylvania Avenue Black Arts & Entertainment District seeks to empower Black creatives and stimulate the economy in West Baltimore with networking and resource sessions, paid internships, historical photographic and mural installations, marquee events, and a K -12 educational toolkit. www.blackartsdistrict.org Ramallah Friends School has been closely tied with the history of Pales- tine since the Ottoman Empire. Under the care of Friends United Meeting, RFS offers children an academically rigorous, balanced, and inclusive learning environment. www.rfs.edu.ps Unified Efforts is a community organization in West Baltimore with a focused goal: engage youth during their time outside of school, enhance learning, and avoid summer slide. www.unifiedefforts.org

In addition to the funds raised by this concert for the operation of Stony Run Friends Meeting, we have selected a nonprofit organization that our members support. Baltimore Jazz Alliance, featured in this program, will receive $2,000 and have the op - portunity to introduce their mission to the audience. The Stony Run community continues our relationships with these previous partners: Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE) assists asylum seekers and survivors of torture with services including emergency and transitional housing, case management, English instruction, and job readi- ness training. www.asyleewomen.org Baltimore Peace Movement is the new name for Baltimore Ceasefire 365. The organization creates opportunities for the community to notice, uplift, nurture, share, and bask in the peace that al- ready exists within each of us. www.baltimorepeacemovement.com Belize City Friends School ministers in Belize City while educating boys and girls. SRFM supports their Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) as well as a program to end human trafficking. www.friendsunitedmeeting.org/where-we-work/caribbean Episcopal Refugee and Immigrant Center Alliance (ERICA) provides direct assis- tance to refugees, asylum seekers, and “asylees” with no-interest loans, emergency financial assistance, education workshops, mentoring, and advocacy. www.erica-baltimore.org Esperanza Center is an immigrant resource center that assists peo- ple who are new to the U.S. Services. Programs include ESL education, citizenship classes, healthcare, and low-cost legal services. www.catholiccharities-md.org Friends Women’s’ Association Ntaseka Clinic in Bujumbura, Burundi provides health care to women and their families, improving reproduc- tive health, care for HIV-positive people, and support for rape victims. www.fwaburundi.com Great Kids Farm, a 33-acre urban farm, exposes City School students to a farm with a stream, woods, fields, and greenhouses; provides hands-on opportunities to connect farm and plate; reinforces curricular concepts; strengthens environmental literacy; and promotes healthy habits for the whole child. www.friendsgkf.org

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About Quakers

we have no set prayers, sermons, altars, scripture readings, or hymns. All who are present silently join in prayer and medi- tation and, if moved by the Divine Spirit, give expression to prayer or speak in the spirit of worship. It is through the weekly Meeting for Worship that we seek spiritual nourish- ment and inspiration to go back into, and provide service to,

The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are called Friends or Quakers, goes back to the 17 th Century. Today, there are approximately 400,000 Quakers worldwide, living and worshipping in 87 countries. Quakers are all ages, educational backgrounds, races, sexual orientations, gender identities, and abilities. Everyone is welcome among Friends.

the broader society. Commitment to Peace, Equality,

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serve society is to serve the Divine. Friends have engaged in social action including the abolitionist movement, World War II relief work, refugee work, and the civil rights movement. We strive to achieve peace, racial equality, gender equality, prison reform, the abolition of capital punishment, and a living wage for all. We condemn war, but not a specific group of people, as we seek to establish a framework for reconciliation.We believe that those who are called enemies are, in fact, friends separated by misunderstanding. The Religious Society of Friends historically belongs to a group of churches advocating for pacifism or nonresistance. Peace churches also include the Church of the Brethren, Mennonites, and the Amish. Join Us All are invited to join us for our Meeting for Worship, which is held twice on Sundays, at 9:30 and 11:00 AM. www.stonyrunfriends.org 443-703-2590

including respect for one another and all peoples; hope that the search for truth will lead to right action; and trust in the divine element in each person to resist evil and to do good. We un- derstand that one’s outward life needs to bear witness to truth discerned inwardly.We commit to live simply so that others can simply live. We believe the Inner Light is the manifestation of the Divine. The Inner Light is not one’s conscience but that which enlightens one’s conscience. We discern the Inner Light by silently and patiently waiting for the Divine to speak to us during what we call Meeting for Worship . Stony Run Friends Meeting belongs to a branch of Quakers that holds an unprogrammed Meeting for Worship, which means that

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