MORRISTOWN
JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL
RETURNS SATURDAY, AUGUST 15th
Free Concert
Celebrates 100th Birthdays for
Muddy Waters, Les Paul
& Frank Sinatra
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MORRISTOWN -- The Fifth Annual Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival returns on Saturday, August 15,
with a celebration of the centennial birthdays of jazz artists Frank
Sinatra and Les Paul plus bluesman Muddy Waters on the Morristown Green
from noon until 10:00 p.m.
The free festival begins at noon with three popular jazz ensembles. The hard driving “little big band” Swingadelic opens at noon followed by the legendary guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and his friends Frank Vignola, Vinny Raniolo and Ed Laub at two. The extraordinary young trumpet player Bria Skonberg then takes the stage with her group at four.
As the afternoon draws to a close, the music turns to the blues with the award-winning Roomful of Blues,
a rocking, swinging horn-driven ensemble that has been a crowd pleaser
since their start in the sixties. The festival concludes with the
legendary blues harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite
and his band. The winner of 27 Blues Music Awards, Musselwhite is in the
Blues Hall of Fame, has been nominated for ten Grammy Awards and is one
of the most popular blues artists in the world.
Major sponsors for this summer’s Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival
include Bijou Properties, Inglesino Webster, JCP&L, Normandy Real
Estate Partners, PSEG and Sherman Wells.
Additional sponsors include ConnectOne Bank, Delaware Raritan
Engineering, Grasshopper, Headquarters Plaza, Investors Bank, O’Donnell
McCord PC, Riker Danzig, Alaimo Associates, Atlantic Health, DiFrancesco
Bateman, Greenbaum Rowe, Hampshire Properties, Herrick Group, Ironbar,
Lakeside Consulting, Lindabury McCormick, Marchetto Higgins Stieve,
McEnerny Brady and Company, MPAC, Morristown Municipal Airport, Porzio
Bromberg & Newman, Jeff Rawding AIA, Richards and Robbins Group,
SILVERMAN, Sona Thirteen, Toll Brothers, New Jersey Jazz Society, Hot
House Jazz Magazine, NJ Arts Daily, NJ.com and The Star-Ledger.
The
Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival takes place on the Morristown
Green rain or shine and admission is free. Bring your lawn chairs and
blankets.
For more information, visit www.MorristownJazzandBlues.org.
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PHOTO: The
legendary Bucky Pizzarelli will appear with his friends Vinny Raniolo,
Frank Vignola and Ed Laub at the Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival on
Saturday, August 15.
Photo Courtesy of Kevin Coughlin.
PHOTO: The
young trumpet sensation Bria Skonberg will take the stage with her band
at four at the Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday, August 15.
Photo courtesy of Tom Concordia
PHOTO: The legendary Charlie Musselwhite will appear with his band at the Morristown Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday, August 15.
Photo Courtesy of Richard Lam.
NOTE: For additional information, photos or interviews, contact Don Jay Smith at 908-832-1020 or don@lksassociates.com
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