Bands from Freedom High School and Lehigh Valley Performing Arts High to participate for a chance to open for legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band during RiverJazz festival.
The jazz bands from Freedom High School and the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts are two of six finalists picked to participate in the SteelStacks High School Jazz Band Showcase. The winner of the competition will be the opening act for the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which will perform on May 9 at the Musikfest Café for the RiverJazz Festival. The final competition has been scheduled for 4 p.m., Sunday, March 17, also at the Musikfest Café. Each band will perform a 20-minute set before a live audience and the judges. The event will also include performances by the Moravian College Jazz Faculty Band and SteelStacks Jazz All-Star Big Band, as well as the official awards presentation for the competition’…
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18-time Grammy winner Chick Corea and the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band are the first two acts announced for RiverJazz festival at SteelStacks.
Eighteen-time Grammy Award winner Chick Corea and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are the first two acts announced for the 2013 RiverJazz presented by Concannon Miller, May 9-24 at SteelStacks in Bethlehem. Tickets for the concerts, which will take place at the ArtsQuest Center’s Musikfest Café, will go on sale starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday to ArtsQuest members and 10 a.m. Friday to the public. They will be available at artsquest.org or by calling 610-332-3378. On May 9, 7:30 p.m., it’s an evening of New Orleans-style jazz when the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the stage. A touring act for half a century, the band derives its name from Preservation Hall, the venerable music venue in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter that was …
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