ADRIAN JAZZ FESTIVAL COMES TO DAWSON AUDITORIUM posted 3/18/03

The Adrian College Music Department will host the Adrian College Invitational Jazz Festival on Tuesday, Mar. 25 beginning at 4:30 p.m. in Dawson Auditorium. The festival will feature local jazz bands from Adrian and Tecumseh high schools, Adrian College and Siena Heights University and the Clinician All Stars.

The festival will include an improvisation clinic taught by Gene Parker, Mike Lorenz, Scott Kretzer and Brad Sharp at 4:30 p.m. The bands will perform beginning at 6 p.m., rounded out by a performance by the jazz clinicians to close the festival.

The concert and clinic are free and open to the public. Dawson Auditorium is located on the Adrian College campus. For more information, call the Adrian College Music Department at 517-264-3868, or email Tom Hodgman, Music Chair, at thodgman@adrian.edu.

Release by Bianca Mieth, class of 2005