Arkansas Jazz Festival 2015 at Dardanelle Gazebo on Front Street

Free and open to the public, the 2015 Arkansas Jazz Festival will take place on two days (Friday, 24 April and Saturday, 25 April) at two sites (the gazebo on Front Street in Dardanelle and the east lawn of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock). This fifth annual festival features performances (at one-hour intervals) by jazz bands from colleges, high schools, and junior high/middle schools throughout Arkansas as well as two from Texas. Also performing (with the University of Arkansas at Monticello's award-winning jazz band) is internationally renowned saxophonist Lou Marini (blueloumarini.com)....

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Free and open to the public, the 2015 Arkansas Jazz Festival will take place on two days (Friday, 24 April and Saturday, 25 April) at two sites (the gazebo on Front Street in Dardanelle and the east lawn of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock). This fifth annual festival features performances (at one-hour intervals) by jazz bands from colleges, high schools, and junior high/middle schools throughout Arkansas as well as two from Texas. Also performing (with the University of Arkansas at Monticello's award-winning jazz band) is internationally renowned saxophonist Lou Marini (blueloumarini.com).

DARDANELLE PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE FOR FRIDAY, 24 APRIL 2015: Dardanelle MS (3:30 pm), Prairie Grove HS (4:30 pm), University of Arkansas Jazz Combo (5:30 pm), Pea Ridge HS (6:30 pm), Dardanelle HS (7:30 pm)

REFER TO SEPARATE JAZZ NEAR YOU ENTRIES FOR PERFORMANCES IN LITTLE ROCK 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 (ARJE, 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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