Ninth Annual North Texas Jazz Festival
April 18
, 2009
The ninth annual North Texas Jazz Festival presented by the Town of Addison and the University of North Texas promises great jazz entertainment including fantastic concerts, rare jazz films, jazz seminars and master classes with jazz greats. The three-day invitational features almost 50 outstanding big bands, combos, and vocal jazz groups representing universities, community colleges, high schools and middle schools from across the United States and Canada.
The event kicks off with a bang Thursday night with an Intimate Evening with two-time GRAMMY nominated Tierney Sutton Band at Greenhill School. After the concert, concert-goers are invited to an informal reception with the band.
Friday’s concert includes a special performance from the One O’Clock Lab Band, the North Texas Jazz Singers and the North Texas Jazz Faculty Combo. Students from the nearly 50 bands performing over the three-day festival will have the opportunity to be selected as “outstanding” by the events adjudicators. Those selected will appear on stage in concert Saturday night along side the Tierney Sutton Band for the event finale.
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Places to eat:
Drink Specials:
- Truluck's: 4:30 pm - 7 pm: half-price cocktails and 25% off all bottles of wine / 4:30 pm - 7 pm: half-price food from the lounge menu
- May Dragon Chinese Restaurant: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm: $1 off everything
- Buffalo Wild Wings: 4 pm - 7 pm: $3.25 domestic drafts (23 oz), $2 Anheiser bottles, $3 Long Islands
- Duke's Original Roadhouse: 11 am - 2 am: $5 pitchers
- Genghis Grill: 11 am - 7 pm: $2 wells, $2 drafts, $2 domestics
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Alex Bentley says:
Donna Bearden sent us a couple of pictures from the first night of the North Texas Jazz Festival:
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Tierney Sutton with Addison Mayor Joe Chow
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Left to right: Steve Wiest, Director of the 1 o'clock Lab at the University of North Texas, Craig Marshall, Manager of the Jazz Studio at the University of North Texas, Barbara Kovacevich, Special Events Administrator for Town of Addison, Neil Slater, Corporate Director of the 1'o'clock Lab at the University of North Texas and founder of the North Texas Jazz Festival
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