New Mexico Jazz Festival
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6TH ANNUAL NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL, JULY 19-31, 2011
The New Mexico Jazz Festival is a collaborative project of the Outpost Performance Space, the Lensic, Santa Fe’s Performing Arts Center, and the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation, all 501(c)3 non profit organizations. The two week Festival takes place each year in the latter part of July (this year it was July 19-31, 2011). The New Mexico Jazz Festival is exciting in that it features local as well as world renowned artists and jazz masters and brings together the two major New Mexico cities— Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The 2011 line-up included NEA Jazz Master, Randy Weston & His African Rhythms Quintet; Dee Dee Bridgewater; Christian McBride & Inside Straight; John Pizzarelli Quartet with Jessica Molaskey; Maceo Parker; The Preservation Hall Jazz Band; Mose Allison, and more! For more information visit: newmexicojazzfestival.org Note: SPECIAL HOTEL BENEFIT: If you will be traveling to Santa Fe or Albuquerque to see a show and plan on staying in a hotel please check out the links on the jazz festival website home page (see lefthand sidebar). The rates are guaranteed to be the lowest available and a portion of each reservation will go to the New Mexico Jazz Festival! HISTORY: Founded in 2006, the New Mexico Jazz Festival followed on the work of the Open Arts Foundation’s Santa Fe Jazz and International Music Festival (2000-2005) which produced hundreds of concerts and brought an unprecedented wealth of high quality jazz to Santa Fe. In 2006, our inaugural effort presented McCoy Tyner, Branford Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Newport Jazz Allstars, and more. In 2007 we expanded our efforts and presented more concerts in both cities including performances by the legendary Sonny Rollins in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. We also inaugurated a partnership with the City of Albuquerque’s Summerfest by offering 5 hours of music on Civic Plaza— an evening which was free and open to the public and which was capped by a performance by Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra. 2008 saw the performances of Cassandra Wilson, Pharoah Sanders, Kenny Garrett, Habib Koite, Allen Toussaint and more; and in 2009 we featured Jimmy Heath, the Mingus Dynasty, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dave & Don Grusin, Kurt Elling and more (see past year's line-ups below) FESTIVAL SUPPORT: The New Mexico Jazz Festival is supported by ticket sales as well as by many generous funders and sponsors. 2011 NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL MAJOR FUNDERS & SPONSORS: 2011 NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL SUPPORTERS: 2011 NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL FRIENDS & INKIND CONTRIBUTORS: 2011 NEW MEXICO JAZZ FESTIVAL PRESENTING PARTNERS 2011 NOB HILL SUMMERFEST SPONSORS Call Outpost Executive Director, Tom Guralnick at 505-268-0044 or Lensic General Manager, Bob Martin at 505-988-7050 for details on 2008 New Mexico Jazz Festival Sponsorship Opportunities. Stay tuned to this website as well as www.ticketssantafe.org and www.newmexicojazzfestival.org.
PAST FESTIVAL LINE UPS
Inaugural New Mexico Jazz Festival — July 20-29, 2006
2nd Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival — July 19-29, 2007
3rd Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival — July 17-28, 2008
4rd Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival — July 15-26, 2009
5th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival — July 13-25, 2010
6th Annual New Mexico Jazz Festival — July 19-31, 2011 |
