Oakland School for the Arts

Dear OSA Community, This Saturday, at 7:30 PDT I will be sharing the bill with some great musicians including Kev Choice and Howard Wiley to close out the San Jose Jazz New Works Festival (April 29th - May 8th) tickets to Stream are available at the link below!! 10 $for the individual night OR $20 for the entire festival! Each artist on this festival are unique in their own and well worth seeing and following. San Jose Jazz... #newworksfestival #sanjosemusic #bayarea #bayareamusicians #supportlocalartists See more

Heart of Oakland is TOMORROW! Heart of Oakland is an important fundraising event for our community to come together and support our creative youth. Our hard-working, amazingly talented students and faculty have put together some spectacular art and performances to share with YOU. This event is open to ALL, share and invite friends and family! Register to attend, it's free! https://paybee.io/@osa

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Here’s a fun interview I got to do with my friend MJ Call KXSF 102.5 FM I talked about teaching and creating music during the past 10 months. It features Oakland School for the Arts - Instrumental Music colleague Patrick Anseth and alum Hannah Mayer and Bassist Daniel Fabricant . You can also hear a sneak peek of another alum Ari Carpenter in he first hour featuring OSA colleague and talented cellist #crystalpascucci in the first hour

OSA Instrumental Music Winter Concert 2020 is Up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMhA_D9_ank&pbjreload=101

Today is #GivingTuesday! OSA is raising funds for our vital Diversity and Equity Program. Donate here or on our website, www.oakarts.org/donate. Thank you for your support!

I am honored that my Debut Album Episodes of An Aquarius, is officially on the ballot for the first round of nominations for the 63rd GRAMMY Awards. It is under... the categories of Best Jazz Instrumental Album & Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. Thank you team for all the hard work we put into this, from start to finish. Please Share | Spread the word | The love if you can. The more people that see this, the more chances it has to be voted on. Voting ends October 12th!! Thank you all https://www.justinouellet.com https://justinouellet1.bandcamp.com/releases https://open.spotify.com/album/1uYQ98YDiQn8woSDwsr04j https://www.youtube.com/playlist Cava Menzies Marlon Aldana bz lewis Margaret Schultz Joe Kyle Jr. Rob Reich Patrick Anseth Jeff Kolhede 25th Street Recording Oakland, California Bayarea bayarea.com Californication Jazz Jazz Violin _ouelletjust.in #bayareajazz #jazz #nonclassical #violinist #violin #violinmusic #grammys2020 #GRAMMYs #GrammyAwards #ForYourConsideration #payitforward #PassItOnChallenge

1/23 come on out to hear some of OSA Faculty tear it up at the UPTOWN Nightclub in Oakland. It’s a 21+ event so perfect night for date night and getting babysitter

Here’s a little sample of what we’ll be performing on Saturday 12/7 at The Soundroom in Oakland Show 8pm Doors 7:30pm Space is limited so get your tickets ahead of time. See the link below. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4438755

Hey FB Hive, Here’s one the songs off my debut album #episodesofanaquarius featuring this talented crew Cava Menzies Marlon Aldana Joe Kyle Jr.... Recorded/ engineered at 25th Street Recording by Jeff Kolhede Mixed/Edited by Jeff kolhede & bz lewis Mastered by bzlewis Also, To help support me and to own the album, it can be purchased directly @ https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/justinouellet2 https://youtu.be/WTWdDsP0O_A

Hey ya’ll! It’s been a fantastic week of music thus far with our first show of the season st the backroom. Next up, Patrick Anseth’s cd release at Yoshi’s Here...’s one of my favorites called changing rhythms by the Viking himself. Featured on this show are: Aaron Germain, Marlon Aldana, myself, and Patrick Anseth

Hey OSA, just a friend,y reminder voting closes tomorrow for San Francisco’s best of the bay. Please cast a vote for me, Justin Ouellet.

Come join us this Monday April 8th at Yoshi’s Oakland for our final hit of the year: OSA Big Band & OSA Messengers Combo! The Bay Area’s largest group of overachieving young jazz instrumentalists, and a bald guy. Let us share our chicken with you!! Doors at 7pm, show at 8. Tickets at www.yoshis.com

Friends, colleagues and Families of the OSA community. Do one on out and celebrate my birthday at the UPTOWN on 2/12. Event details in the link but we will be performing jazz standards from 7-9pm while the movie Brick is playing in the background. Should be a fun event.

Taking 1st place in the C division and defying the odds to compete in the finals with the AAAA bands at the Folsom Jazz Festival yesterday, these young players never cease to amaze me with what they are capable of doing!!! Proud doesn’t adequately express my feelings. Always share your chicken!

Check out the Music Video from OSA’s very own Cava Menzies. I’m A Woman is one of the tunes off of her new EP Balm Enjoy!!

Come on out to the mission to El Rio in SF and see the premiere of Cava Menzies music video of I’m A Woman a song off her recent EP BALM which features members of the OSA Community‘s Vocal, Instrumental and Audio Production & Engineering. here’s the need to know: El Rio ... 3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez), San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 282-3325 8pm doors 9pm show $10 rear room all proceeds go to access: Women’s Health Justice See more