Hey Jazz and Blues Fans!

We hope you are able to go out and enjoy the spring weather and some great jazz during Jazz Appreciation Month! Here is what’s happening in the Sioux Falls community in the month of April.

Muldaur to Perform Soulful Finale for Jazz & Blues Series

WHO: Maria Muldaur
WHEN: Friday, April 13, 2007 at 8:00pm
WHERE: Sioux Falls Historical Orpheum Theater
TICKETS: $22-$35. Call the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society at 605-335-6101 or purchase tickets online at www.sfjb.org. Student rush tickets are available one half-hour before the show for $12 with a valid student ID.

The final show of the Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues Society’s concert series highlights the incomparable Maria Muldaur who is slated to perform at the Historic Orpheum Theater on April 13, 2007. Within one’s lifetime, there will only be a few rare vocalists who hit the peak of success, remain there for decades, and produce works that last eternally. Maria Muldaur is such an artist. Her work is not only eternal, but so are the classic forms she interprets, from folk to jug band, jazz to blues.

Muldaur’s newest release is entitled “Heart of Mine: The Love Songs of Bob Dylan.” Here is what the Philadelphia Daily News says of the album:

“M.M. wraps her languid, liquidy, sleepy-time-down-South pipes around Mr. D’s most quaint, countrified testimonials…The lady never pumps it up faster than the mid-tempo shuffles ‘To Be Alone With You’ and ‘Moonlight,’ but that just makes this a set that you can enjoy and exploit in all kinds of emotional weather.”

Single tickets for this concert are available for $35-$22 each. Student rush tickets are available one half-hour before show time with valid student I.D. for $12.

Call the Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues Society Box Office at 605.335.6101 or buy tickets online at www.sfjb.org.

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Society Hosts Special Events for Jazz Appreciation Month in April

The Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society announces that it will host five special events as part of a celebration of America’s indigenous art form, jazz music, this April.

“This is the third year our organization has planned special events for the national celebration,” says Katrina Lehr-McKinney, Executive Coordinator. “We are working with several local musicians and advocates to schedule events, and hope that the community will come out to enjoy the excitement that jazz music offers.”

Five special events are scheduled to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month 2007.

• 4/13/07: Maria Muldaur at the Sioux Falls Historic Orpheum Theater at 8pm. Tickets are $35 or $22. Call 605-335-6101 or go online at www.sfjb.org for tickets. This concert is the last performance of the Society’s 2006-2007 concert series.

• 4/19/07: Wine & Song at Touch of Europe from 7-9pm. Live music from pianist Tony Saia and wine tasting hosted by Famous Brands.

• 4/21/07: Poetry & Jazz Jam at Touch of Europe from 9pm to close. Live music by Kind of Blue accompanied by poet Charles Luden reading his original works.

• 4/27/07: The Art of Jazz at Touch of Europe from 9pm to close. 2nd Annual “The Art of Jazz” featuring local artists Jamie Scarbrough, Hope Happeny, and Scott Ehrisman as they paint to the live music of Dakota Jazz Collective. Open call to visual artists who wish to participate. Contact Scott Ehrisman if interested at fb.art@sio.midco.net.

• 4/28/07: Jazz Crawl in downtown Sioux Falls. The Take 2 Trio at Café 334 from 6-8pm; Michelle’s will host Tony Saia from 7-9pm; the Bielfeldt Jazz Duo at Minerva’s from 9-11pm; and Dakota Jazz Collective at Touch of Europe from 9pm to close. The evening will end with an open jazz jam at Touch of Europe. (All venues are within one block of each other on Phillips Avenue, between 11th and 12th Streets.)

More information about Jazz Appreciation Month can be found at http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/jam/jam_start.asp or www.sfjb.org.

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Other live jazz and blues events during the month of April:

Serenata
4.6.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

Jess Christen & Dave Wood (of Urban Blues)
4.6.2007
Touch of Europe

Serenata
4.7.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

Urban Blues
4.7.2007
Touch of Europe

The Apostles
4.12.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

Dakota Case
4.13.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

Jim McKinney & Dan Peterson
4.13.2007
Touch of Europe

Watermelon Slim and the Workers
4.14.2007
Nutty’s LIVE

North Main Blues
4.14.2007
Touch of Europe

Dakota Case
4.20.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

Bernard Allison
4.20.2007
Nutty’s LIVE

University of South Dakota Jazz Ensembles
4.20.2007
Colton Recital Hall, USD Campus

Dakota Case
4.21.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

Serenata
4.27.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

Serenata
4.28.2007
Carnaval Brazilian Grill

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It is the mission of the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society to increase the awareness of jazz and blues music
in the Sioux Falls community, through musical events and education.