Dena DeRose

For 12 years (2004-2015), the Ritenuto Foundation presented the Wall Street Jazz Festival, in Kingston, NY, a free outdoor festival featuring women-led bands. Since relocating to Austin, the Foundation’s CArtistic Director, Peggy Stern, has become inspired to continue the festival here, possibly in an altered form, but keeping the founding principle intact. The bands are always led by women, free to make their own choices of personnel, free to present their own unique musical concept.