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Alcorn State Jazz Festival
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008
Location: The Vicksburg Convention Center and ASU JazzFest@Riverfest, Washington and South Streets
For over a quarter of a century, the Department of Fine Arts at Alcorn State University, with funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Southern Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts, has sponsored a Jazz Festival each spring. The day-long festival features performances by some of most outstanding professional jazz musicians and university, college and high school jazz ensembles from throughout the mid-southern region of the United States. Highlights of the festivals are the afternoon workshops and evening concerts by some of the world’s greatest jazz artists. (See the list of past featured artists below.)
