One of our favorite bands, The New Standards, announced they were playing at the Lantern Festival Gala for Yinghua Academy.

Lantern Festival Gala and Silent Auction banner with illustrated red blue and green paper lanterns benefiting Yinghua Academy February 19 2011

Yinghua is a Chinese immersion school in Minneapolis and we have a few friends that send their kids to the school. We’ve heard nothing but good things. Tammy picked up tickets so we could support a good school and get to see a relatively small and intimate performance by The New Standards.

Jazz trio performing on a purple-lit stage decorated with red Chinese lanterns, playing upright bass, piano, and drums for a seated audience.

It was a really good show.

See list of The New Standards shows.