Enjoy a festive evening full of lively music as we toast Vaclav Havel’s dedication to freedom and culture on what would be his 89th birthday, all while benefitting the Czech Center Museum Houston’s cultural events and educational programming! We will have our Fall Fundraiser in the Prague Hall on Saturday, October 4, 2025, featuring the Silk Road Jazz Quartet.
Join our community of Czech culture lovers for a unique evening inspired by the timeless allure and intimate charm of Prague jazz clubs, while we celebrate the universally respected Vaclav Havel!
tickets
Reserved Seating: $100 (Members $75)
Open Seating: $60
Complimentary valet parking
Additional street parking is available on Wichita and Rosedale
Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets include lite bites and a welcome drink.
If you are not yet a CCMH member, join now to get free and reduced tickets along with other great benefits!
Meet the Artists
Silk Road is an instrumental jazz band performing primarily straight-ahead jazz largely from the '50s and 60s.
The band features guitarist Clayton Dyess, a native Houstonian who has recorded and performed internationally with such jazz legends as Arnett Cobb, Dizzy Gillespie, David "Fathead" Newman, Jewel Brown, and the Modern Jazz Quartet. He was Music Director of Cobb's Mob and fills that role for Silk Road as well.
Vlad Morakhovsky, Silk Road's pianist, was born in St. Petersburg, where he studied classical music with a focus on cello performance. He played with various classical ensembles and toured throughout Russia and Europe. In 1994, he moved to the US, where he has appeared with the Idaho-Washington Symphony, the Walla Walla Symphony, and various local groups in Colorado, Oklahoma, Alaska and Texas on cello, piano and upright bass in jazz, classical and popular genres.
Our bassist, Victor Delagarza, has performed in Houston since 1977. He plays acoustic and electric bass as well as electric guitar. He is a recording engineer, having produced 10 albums and played on eight. Victor is the bandleader of "Fahrenheit" and "The Megatones."
In high school, drummer Bob Antonoff studied with Joe Morello (of the Dave Brubeck Quartet), but then decided not to go to music school. He attended Yale where he played numerous musicals, backing such actors as Mark Linn-Baker, Bronson Pinchot, Polly Draper and Meryl Streep. After a 20-year hiatus, he started playing the drums again after his wife gave him drum lessons to assuage his first mid-life crisis. Bob manages money in the stock market to keep food on the table.