The Glyn Dryhurst Dixieland Band- South Beach Jazz Festival at South Beach Jazz Festival at Euclid Circle -- Main Stage

The Second South Beach Jazz Festival will begin on Friday, January 5 for a weekend of classic, Latin, and New Orleans-style acts that will attract jazz fans to South Beach hotels, theaters, and restaurant seats. Over that weekend, open-air performances by local ensembles will draw Lincoln Road promenaders to linger, listen and groove. And even more significantly, the festival musicians will raise public awareness of persons who have disabilities.

Dixieland is the name given to the style of jazz performed by early New Orleans jazz musicians. Not often heard today, a handful of dedicated bands keep the music alive...

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The Second South Beach Jazz Festival will begin on Friday, January 5 for a weekend of classic, Latin, and New Orleans-style acts that will attract jazz fans to South Beach hotels, theaters, and restaurant seats. Over that weekend, open-air performances by local ensembles will draw Lincoln Road promenaders to linger, listen and groove. And even more significantly, the festival musicians will raise public awareness of persons who have disabilities.

Dixieland is the name given to the style of jazz performed by early New Orleans jazz musicians. Not often heard today, a handful of dedicated bands keep the music alive. The Glyn Dryhurst Dixieland Band is South Florida’s leading band dedicated to this genre of music. This is one of the earliest styles of jazz music, an intricate jazz sound of music The style combines earlier brass band marches, French Quadrilles, beguine, ragtime, and similar styles to achieve its unique sound. While instrumentation and the size of the bands may vary, the “standard” band comprises a front line of trumpet, trombone, and clarinet; and a rhythm section of either guitar or banjo, string bass or tuba, or piano and drums.

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