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Join us for a Sunday of jazz music and dance as we celebrate Richland One's Jazz Festival at Finlay Park on April 26, 2009. The festival runs from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. A variety of Jazz Choral groups, middle and high school jazz bands, jazz dance ensembles and the faculty jazz ensemble will be performing. Bring a picnic dinner, your lawn chairs and enjoy the music and dance! Celebrating Jazz The Richland One Jazz Festival is designed to: Culminate studies about the glories of jazz as both an historical and a living treasure. Study the music, attend concerts, listen to jazz on radio and recordings, read books about jazz, and support institutional jazz programs. April Is National Jazz Appreciation Month Smithsonian operates the world’s most comprehensive set of jazz programs and the National Museum of American History is home to jazz collections that include 100,000 pages of Duke Ellington’s unpublished music and such objects as Ella Fitzgerald’s famous red dress, Dizzy Gillespie’s angled trumpet, John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme manuscript and Goodman’s clarinet. The museum launched JAM in 2001 as an annual event that pays tribute to jazz both as a historic and living American art form. It has since grown to include celebrations in all 50 states and 40 countries. The Jazz Festival at Finlay Park will include: Elementary Festival Choir Interested in learning more about jazz? View the Jazz-An African-American Art Form Presentation!!
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April Is Jazz Appreciation Month: JAM!!!