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Summer Solstice Jazz Festival
Friday, June 20 and Saturday, June 21
4:30-10:30 p.m.
Downtown East Lansing
Sizzling Sounds at the East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Festival
WKAR Radio hosted stages at the 12th annual Summer Solstice Jazz Festival over two extraordinary evenings in downtown East Lansing on Friday, June 20, and Saturday, June 21.
Dan Bayer was joined by WKAR Radio personalities Doug Collar, Brad Walker and Mark Bashore to host the ongoing music., staged in the heart of the city. The festival salutes American’s own unique music genre – jazz – while celebrating the summer solstice.
This year’s high wattage line-up ubckyded the Detroit Tenors, the Hot Club of Detroit, Straight Ahead, and the Community Music School Jazz Orchestra. The following day attendees will be treated to music by the Sunny Wilkinson Quartet, Colton Weatherston, Fusion Band, the MSU Professors of Jazz with Sophie Milman, and Tumbao Bravo.
The festival will also featured performances featuring Joshua E. Davis & Friends and the Rockelle Whitaker Project.
The event was co-produced by the City of East Lansing, Wharton for Performing Arts, and the MSU College of Music Jazz Studies Center for Performing Arts. WKAR Radio & TV were a Gold Note Sponsor of this year’s East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Festival.
And, if you love jazz – be sure to tune on Saturday evenings for 90.5 FM’s own Jazz ‘til Midnight program with host Doug Collar, from 8 p.m. to midnight.
published: June 10, 2008
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