Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour 55th Anniversary
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE
BENNY GREEN
LEWIS NASH
CHRIS POTTER
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at 7:30pm | Tryon Festival Theatre

In 1958, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Sonny Rollins were among the headliners at the Monterey County Fairgrounds as San Francisco-based radioman Jimmy Lyons inaugurated what is now one of the longest consecutively running jazz celebrations in the world: the Monterey Jazz Festival. In its 55th year, the festival arrives on tour direct to the people of Champaign-Urbana with our own beloved Tony and Grammy Award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater at the mic making harmony with an all-star lineup including young trumpet phenom Ambrose Akinmusire, who dazzled Krannert Center audiences in The Miles Davis Experience during the 2011-12 season. Together they represent the lineage of American jazz and reflect the “traditional-untraditionalist” attitude, jazz-with-a-purpose exuberance, and joyful fun that continue to be hallmarks of the festival to this day.

This performance will last approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Corporate Platinum Sponsor
Mervis Industries

Patron Co-sponsors
Mary & George Perlstein
Peggy Madden & Richard Phillips
LaVerne & Joseph Smith
Anonymous

Corporate Silver Sponsor
NewsTalk 1400-WDWS

Corporate Bronze Sponsor
Centrec Consulting Group, LLC