Arkansas Jazz Festival 2015 at William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum

SINCE NO PROVISION WAS MADE FOR MOVING THE FESTIVAL INDOORS IF INCLEMENT WEATHER MADE USE OF THE EAST LAWN IMPOSSIBLE, FRIDAY'S PERFORMANCES AT LITTLE ROCK'S CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER WERE CANCELLED.

Free and open to the public, the 2015 Arkansas Jazz Festival is scheduled to take place on two days (Friday, 24 April and Saturday, 25 April) at two sites (the gazebo on Dardanelle's Front Street and the east lawn of Little Rock's Clinton Presidential Center). This fifth annual festival (presented by the Arkansas Jazz Educators Association) features performances (at one-hour intervals) by jazz bands from colleges, high schools, and junior high/middle schools (26 in Arkansas, 2 in Texas). The festival also includes two Saturday concerts (12 p.m. in Dardanelle, 6 p.m. in Little Rock) by internationally renowned saxophonist Lou Marini (blueloumarini.com) with the University of Arkansas at Monticello's award-winning jazz band....

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SINCE NO PROVISION WAS MADE FOR MOVING THE FESTIVAL INDOORS IF INCLEMENT WEATHER MADE USE OF THE EAST LAWN IMPOSSIBLE, FRIDAY'S PERFORMANCES AT LITTLE ROCK'S CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER WERE CANCELLED.

Free and open to the public, the 2015 Arkansas Jazz Festival is scheduled to take place on two days (Friday, 24 April and Saturday, 25 April) at two sites (the gazebo on Dardanelle's Front Street and the east lawn of Little Rock's Clinton Presidential Center). This fifth annual festival (presented by the Arkansas Jazz Educators Association) features performances (at one-hour intervals) by jazz bands from colleges, high schools, and junior high/middle schools (26 in Arkansas, 2 in Texas). The festival also includes two Saturday concerts (12 p.m. in Dardanelle, 6 p.m. in Little Rock) by internationally renowned saxophonist Lou Marini (blueloumarini.com) with the University of Arkansas at Monticello's award-winning jazz band.

LITTLE ROCK PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE (east lawn of Clinton Presidential Center, clintonpresidentialcenter.org) FOR FRIDAY, 24 APRIL 2015: Little Rock Central HS Jazz Band II (3:30 pm), West Memphis HS (4:30 pm), Benton JHS (5:30 pm), Harding University (6:30 pm), Bryant HS (7:30 pm)

REFER TO SEPARATE JAZZ NEAR YOU ENTRIES FOR PERFORMANCES IN DARDANELLE AND ON SATURDAY, 25 APRIL 2015.

Questions should be directed to Clay Hooten ([email protected] / 479.229.4655, Ext. 54), who serves as president for the Arkansas Jazz Educators Association (arjazzed.org), an affiliate of the Jazz Education Network (jazzednet.org), one of the Smithsonian's collaborators on Jazz Appreciation Month (April), for which resources are provided at smithsonianjazz.org.

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