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“Jazz, Wine and Beer” Pub Crawl*
Thursday, October 2nd
6:30pm
Tickets are $36 and on sale now!
*Must be 21+ to participate.
Pub Crawl tickets can be be purchased at the Jazz Series Box Office and at select Ticketmaster outlets including Blue Note, Streetside Records, Schnucks and the Jazz Series Box Office. This year they are also available—as will call—online or by phone (800-646-8849).
Post Pub Crawl Party**
Doors: 8:30 p.m.
Tickets $10 Advance/$12 Door or FREE with Pub Crawl Ticket
**Post Party ALL AGES
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What began as a four-stop wine tasting benefit with a capacity for 150 people has evolved into one of the great showcases for local, area and regional musicians involving 20 bands, 20 venues and, this season, up to 1,000 attendees.
Venues either sit on the "East Side" or the "West Side" of the dividing line (roughly Ninth Street downtown, although in great American tradition there is a bit of gerrymandering involved). Participants may choose either of the simultaneously run crawls, which begin at 6:30 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. Participants may then enjoy complimentary entrée to the Post-Crawl concert at the Blue Note with this year's entertainment Son Venezuela from Kansas City.
The Jazz Series encourages those who feel that they may have enjoyed themselves too much to take advantage of our special arrangement with The Regency Downtown. They offer a special rate to participants if they would like to spend the night.
Sponsors for this year's Pub Crawl include: Glazer's Midwest, N.H. Scheppers Distributing Co., The District, The Regency, Mediacom and BXR Radio.
Jazz Series Launches Annual Fund as dollar-for-dollar match for major NEA Jazz Masters Live
This is a special year for us. As recipients of a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts – the Jazz Masters Live Initiative we are required to match the award dollar for dollar. The goal: $30,000 – and we need do reach it by February 18, 2008 – the day commissioned composer and Kansas City native Bob Brookmeyer returns to Missouri to conduct the world premier of his new work performed by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, at the Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts. This season your tax-deductible donation to the Jazz Series goes twice as far.
Jazz Series Receives NEA Grant
“We Always Swing” Jazz Series snags prestigious NEA Jazz Masters Live grants…
Organization, one of only 12 presenters in the United States selected to receive $30,000 award paves the way for Missouri native and NEA Jazz Master Bob Brookmeyer to compose new work for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. New York-based, 16-piece orchestra arrives in Columbia to perform world premiere February 18, 2009, at the Missouri Theatre with Brookmeyer as guest conductor. Also on hand: Dan Morgenstern, fellow NEA Jazz Master and Director of Rutgers Jazz Institute. The world renowned historian will serve as guest emcee and host a pair of forums: a one-on-one interview with Brookmeyer and an in-depth look into the chronology of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, which has been holding court at jazz’s most famous basement – The Village Vanguard – since 1965. Much-anticipated events serve as centerpiece for MU’s Arts & Science Week.
Are you ready to get your 2008/2009 “Swing” on?
The 2008/2009 “We Always Swing” Jazz Series has arrived and tickets are on sale NOW!
On tap: a sumptuous mix of modern jazz – small groups, large ensembles, varied instrumentation and instrumentalists, vocalists, male and female artists, special events and educational activities all rolled into our 14th season.
We think we have put together a great season, one filled with 10 regularly scheduled concerts and a trio of fun-filled special-event performances that take place in a venues small and large – from the intimacy of Murry’s and the new Ragtag Cinema to the full-size feel of the newly restored Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts and mid-sized houses such as The Blue Note and Stephens College’s Windsor Auditorium and Lela Rainey Wood Ballroom.
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