Pittsfield CityJazz Festival Tickets on Sale At Online Box Office and Local Venues.PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Tickets are now on sale for the third annual Pittsfield CityJazz Festival, which takes place throughout the city on Columbus Day Columbus Day, holiday commemorating Christopher Columbus's discovery of America. It has been traditionally celebrated on Oct. 12 throughout most of the United States, parts of Canada, and in several of the Latin American republics. weekend, Oct. 4-7. Tickets may be purchased online at www.PittsfieldCityJazz.org, as well as several local outlets. These include the Pittsfield Visitors Center, 109 South Street (Colonial Theatre This article is about the theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. For other uses, see Colonial Theatre (disambiguation). The Colonial Theatre is the oldest continually-operating theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Annex, 413-443-9186, ext. 321); and the Adams Visitors Center, 3 Hoosac Street, Adams, both of which accept cash, check, Master Card, Visa, Discover. The following Pittsfield venues will also be selling tickets during their normal operating hours (cash and check only): * Berkshire Music School, 30 Wendell Ave.; * Lichtenstein Center for the Performing Arts, 28 Renne Ave.; * Wood Brothers, Allendale Shopping Center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , * Miller Supply, 205 West St., * Berkshire Fine Handcrafts, 431 North Street, and * Taconic High School, 96 Valentine Rd. The Pittsfield CityJazz Festival includes something for everybody: a night of music featuring groups headed by women; a Latin Jazz Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and United States. The two main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian and Afro-Cuban. Dance Party; a special Jazz orchestra comprising Pittsfield high school students; documentary Jazz films; and the return of two remarkable performers from last year's event. Once again dozens of local restaurants will be featuring regionally-based artists in free performances before (and in some cases after) the concerts. Percussion master Winard Harper, who appeared last year with Billy Taylor Billy Taylor was born in Greenville, North Carolina on July 24, 1921. Dr. Taylor, one of jazz's most influential African-American pianists, composers, and educators, is currently the Robert L. , will open the festival on Oct. 4 with his own sextet, at Masonic Hall. Harper will also be featured with the Williams College Williams College, at Williamstown, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1785, opened as a free school 1791, became a college 1793, named for Ephraim Williams. The Williams campus, noted for its fine old buildings, includes West College (1790), the Van Rensselaer Manor Jazz Ensemble, one of the premier collegiate bands in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. , performing material adapted for big band by Andy Jaffe, director of the Ensemble. Harper's appearance is presented in conjunction with the Women of Color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color Giving Circle. Adults $25 (students with I.D., $10 at the door). Friday, Oct. 5 will feature a Latin Jazz Dance Party, with the big band of Alex Torres and his Latin Jazz Kings, at the Crowne Plaza hotel. Torres will also conduct a percussion clinic and master class at 5:30pm (no admission charge for the clinic). $10 general admission, a special price thanks to an anonymous underwriter. On Saturday afternoon, Oct. 6, two documentary Jazz films will be screened at the Berkshire Museum's Little Cinema. The double feature will include the northeast debut of "Electric Heart," chronicling the short life but remarkable career of trumpeter Don Ellis, and "Music Inn," documenting the legendary Jazz resort in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts. Tickets for this event at the Berkshire Museum only, 39 South Street, Pittsfield. Tickets are $7 ($5 for Berkshire Museum members). The Women In Jazz Women in Jazz is a lecture and concert presented by jazz singer and composer Joan Cartwright, that chronicles the lives of women who wrote and performed jazz music, including Lil Hardin Armstrong, Mary Lou Williams, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Marian McPartland, Carmen evening on Oct. 6 will include perennial poll-winner Claire Daly and her quartet; Seattle emigre and current mid-Hudson stalwart pianist Peggy Stern and her quartet; and guest soloist alto saxophonist Grace Kelly, who made a surprise appearance at least year's Festival, jamming with NEA NEA abbr. 1. National Education Association 2. National Endowment for the Arts NEA (US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband für das Erziehungswesen Jazz Master Phil Woods. "Women In Jazz" is being presented in collaboration with the Breast Cancer Awareness initiative, with the underwriting support of the Legacy Banks Foundation. It will take place at St. Stephen's Church St. Stephen's Church may refer to: in Austria
On Sunday, Oct. 7, the festival wraps up with a specially commissioned work featuring pianist John Medeski and an all-star Jazz orchestra comprising students from Pittsfield high schools, under the direction of Bill Chapman. It will take place at Taconic High School. Tickets are $10 ($5 for students). In addition, several restaurants and bars will be feature live Jazz before (and in some cases after) the headline performances. And, the Festival will again be bringing Jazz into the schools. The event is an activity of Cultural Pittsfield, the mayor's office of cultural development, and is co-sponsored by the Berkshire Music School. Among the underwriters for this year's events are: * The Legacy Banks Foundation; * Nickelodeon, which is sponsoring the youth Jazz orchestra with special guest composer and piano soloist John Medeski; * Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. ; * The Red Lion Inn; * Greylock Federal Credit Union and KB Toys (education sponsors), and * Lenox Softworks. Further ticket information is available at 413-443-9186, ext. 321. |
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