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Jazz Power Initiative celebrates Women’s History Month throughout March 2023, featuring the extraordinary talents of two exceptional musicians. Jazz Power’s 2023 Community Artist-in-Residence, Annette A. Aguilar, Latin Jazz percussionist, bandleader, and educator, leads a series of Uptown community workshops and performances: March 24, as musical director of the musical “Why We Matter, A Rhythmic Story of Life, Relationships, and the Influential Women That Raise Us,” at PS4/Duke Ellington School in Washington Heights, written and directed by PS4 educator Jose Cantu based on a story developed with JPI, and performed by local Northern Manhattan elementary school students. For more information, visit jazzpower.org/march2023

Photos: Nikara Warren by Shervin Lainez, Annette A. Aguilar by Tony Graves