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Proclamation declaring Friday, June 26, 2015 to be “Jazz on the Hillside Day” in Allegheny County.
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WHEREAS, the 11th Annual Jazz on the Hillside concert, a fundraiser event for the Schenley Heights Community Development Program, will take place on Friday, June 26, 2015 in the historic Schenley Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh’s Hill District, featuring music from local and nationally renowned Jazz Artists: 41Tuned, Hill Jordan and Slide Worldwide, Howie Alexander, The COL Jazz Band and the Tubby Daniels Quartet; and
WHEREAS, the mission of Schenley Heights Community Development Program is to nurture, support and develop our community through wholesome programs that address the academic, moral, cultural, health, and recreational needs of our children, youth and their families in the Hill District and Allegheny County; and
WHEREAS, since 1990, the Schenley Heights Community Development Program has provided alternatives to socially destructive activities that too often plague inner city, low-income communities; and
WHEREAS, the Annual Jazz on the Hillside event is a local staple of the Hill District, Pittsburgh and Allegheny County that has provided the best in jazz entertainment every year since its inception, as proceeds assist in maintaining the SHCDP programs; and
WHEREAS, the 11th Annual Jazz on the Hillside is made possible by the support of local organizations such as is made possible in part through support from the Donald Hamm Insurance Agency, Dollar Bank, McAuley Ministries, James and Ruth Thomas, Dr. Carolyn Davis, Pittsburgh Green Innovators, Joseph Carroll, Johnnie and Geraldine Monroe and Wayne and Sabrina Richards; and
WHEREAS, Jazz on the Hillside continues to acknowledge the musical legacy of Hill District and Pittsburgh Jazz musicians of the past and present; and
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Allegheny County Council does hereby declare Friday, June 26, 2015 to be “Jazz on the Hillside Day” in Allegheny County.