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3 Mo’ Tenors’ Shubert show benefits Christian Community Action

3 MO’ TENORS WILL DO BROADWAY, JAZZ, SOUL, R&B, GOSPEL AND MORE AT THE SHUBERT

By Joe Amarante, New Haven Register

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Three Mo’ Tenors founder Marion J. Caffey (in hat) leads members of New Haven’s ACES Educational Center for the Arts Voices student choir in preparation for a number they’ll perform at Thursday’s concert.

3 Mo’ Tenors’ Shubert show benefits Christian Community Action

MERIDEN — Megan O’Neill spent the first nine years of her teaching career at a New Haven elementary school and while she enjoyed it, the position she was recently offered in Meriden was an opportunity she could not pass up.

Photo courtesy of ACES Village School. Anshul Pidikiti and his parents Gagandeep Kaur and Ram Pidikiti took part in Amtryke Bike Day at ACES Village School.

BY Julia Zorthian | AUG 1, 2014 2:51 PM, The New Haven INdependent

Each time bassist Jeff Fuller listed a name of a New Haven jazz icon, the roughly 70 people gathered around him broke into applause.

The crowd gathered on the roof of the downtown Briq restaurant Thursday to celebrate Fuller, a star of New Haven’s jazz scene for decades, just as a revival of the scene appears to be in the works.

The names Fuller listed included pianist Eddie Cercone, saxophonist Tommy Brasile, The Buster Brothers and drummer Jesse Hameen, who had just honored Fuller as an “unsung hero.”

The New Haven Jazz Festival kicks off Thursday evening with an event honoring Connecticut musician/composer Jeff Fuller. 

Fuller is a versatile and eclectic bassist who performed for over 15 years with jazz greatLou Donaldson, six years with Cuban jazz artist Paquito D’Rivera, and over the years, with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan and Randy Brecker. He’s also an educator who has taught jazz for nearly two decades at an arts magnet school in New Haven.WNPR’s Diane Orson spoke with Jeff Fuller earlier this week. To hear the broacast, go to: http://wnpr.org/post/jazz-bass-player-who-can-call-pitches.

ACES Educational Center for the Arts (ECA) was selected as a "Best Magnet School" in New Haven Living Magazine's "Best of 2014" issue. To read more go to: http://www.courant.com/new-haven-living/best-of/services/nhl-best-magnet-school-2014-20140715,0,1682737.story

By Michael C. Bingham

Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES) is pleased to announce Carissa Lockett as its 2014-2015 Teacher of the Year. Ms. Lockett is a teacher at ACES Whitney High School North in Hamden.

by Staff ◊June 17, 2014 Edition

ACES will be celebrating the reopening of the Little Theatre on Lincoln Street with a ribbon cutting ceremony June 6 at 11 a.m.

Built in 1924, New Haven’s Little Theatre (formerly known as Little Theatre on Lincoln) has seen several incarnations, including a period as a beloved art-film cinematheque. After months of construction, the latest transformation will be unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to be held June 6. Designed by local architecture firm Svigals + Partners, the renovation for Area Cooperative Educational Services (ACES) preserves the structure’s unique historic qualities while delivering dual functions: a cutting-edge theater venue and performing arts teaching facility.