Lunch & Learn

2026 Hudson Jazz Festival

Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 1pm

(Left to right): Chris Pattishall, photo by Ebru Yildiz; Keanna Faircloth, photo by David McIntyre; Vuyo Sotashe, photo by Yekaterina Gyadu

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A Conversation on Jazz, Collaboration, and Home
With Vuyo Sotashe & Chris Pattishall with Keanna Faircloth
Saturday October 3rd, 2026 at 1PM at The Spark of Hudson | 502 Union St, Hudson, NY
Free; registration required
Catered by Circles Bagels

Join media personality, writer, and Hudson Jazz Festival Host Keanna Faircloth for an intimate Lunch & Learn conversation with 2026 Hudson Jazz Festival main stage artists, vocalist Vuyo Sotashe and pianist Chris Pattishall. This is a unique chance to hear directly from the artists shaping this year’s festival theme: the many voices, histories, and traditions that continue to define jazz in America.

Sotashe and Pattishall will discuss their deeply expressive musical kinship and the wide-ranging influences behind their work, from Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, and Stevie Wonder to South African Xhosa hymns and their 2026 EP Invocation. They’ll also go behind the music of a new Hudson Hall commission premiering at this year’s festival, exploring how the piece came to life and what it means for a small Hudson Valley city to become a stage for a global musical dialogue.

Co-presented by The Spark of Hudson and The Open Gate Network™

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Thanks to our Festival Sponsors

Thank you to our local business leaders for their generous and enthusiastic support of the Hudson Jazz Festival, with special thanks to our friends at Rebus, The Secret Gardener Nursery, The Law Office of John K. Friedman, GOTHAM, and Pocketbook Hudson Hotel and Baths for their early pledges of support.

Support for the 2026 Hudson Jazz Festival has been provided by the City of Hudson.

Thanks to our Media Partners


Hudson Hall’s programs are made possible with support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

 

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts