Special Holiday Gift Card Certificates

November 08, 2007

The Jazz Series and Murry’s announced today that beginning immediately they are making available a special “Flexible $100.00 Holiday Gift Certificates.” The unique Gift Card Certificate - available exclusively through the Jazz Series at its downtown office on Eighth Street – covers cost toward both a pair of tickets to ANY Jazz Series concert AND makes the remaining funds available for dining at Murry’s. The “Flexibility” of the Gift Card means people can request that a Certificate’s value be increased to any amount desired above the $100 minimum. If recipients prefer they can redeem the Jazz Series and the Murry’s parts simultaneously but use them separately…

Further, purchasers of the Special Gift Card Certificate can either purchase tickets to a specific concert OR they can simply set a value and leave it up to recipients to choose among remaining concerts when they redeem their gift. The Special Gift Certificate Cards are valid through April 27, 2008, the date of the final concert of the 2007/2008 season.

There is additional flexibility built into the Gift Card Certificate. If someone were to purchase a pair of tickets as a gift that cost more than $50, then they could request that an equal or greater value be added to the Murry’s portion to cover what they might anticipate to be additional cost toward a food bill. “The minimum value of the Gift Card Certificate is $100,” reiterated a Jazz Series spokesperson. “Some Jazz Series tickets run more than $25 each; for example, tickets to Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis cost $32-$42 each including in-house handling fees.

“People don’t like to feel as if they are not giving a whole gift. So that’s we built flexibility into the certificate. People can select whatever denomination they feel comfortable giving.”

People must stop by the Jazz Series box office located at 218 N. Eighth St., to either purchase or redeem the special certificates. At that time, the Jazz Series says, people can to order and pick up their tickets and certificates and can request whatever additional amount they might want to put toward the Murry’s portion of their gift. “They can make sure their gift covers tickets plus whatever they feel is an appropriate amount of a Murry’s ‘tab.’”

The Jazz Series also says if people prefer, they can use their tickets and apply the food portion of a certificate at any “Sundays @ Murry’s concert simultaneously or if they prefer they can split the Gift Card Certificate and separate the Jazz Series ticket piece from the Murry’s dining piece thereby expending them at different times. “In essence,” says the Jazz Series, “People can use one part of the Special Gift Card Certificate at one time for tickets and the remainder at another time at Murry’s totally unrelated to the timing of their concert tickets “ The Jazz Series said it wanted to make the Special Gift Card Certificate as flexible and attractive for people as possible. If this works out and there is a good response,” said a Jazz Series spokesperson, “then we would like to develop a similar arrangement with any number of the restaurants that support us and consider us an ally.”