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Holyoke Community College, Jazz Festival
March 28 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EDT
The annual Holyoke Community College Jazz Festival returns for its 26th year on Friday, March 28, with pianist, composer, and educator Earl MacDonald joining the Amherst Jazz Orchestra and members of the HCC jazz faculty for a big-band concert.
The Friday show begins at 8 p.m. in HCC’s Leslie Phillips Theater in the Fine & Performing Arts building on the main HCC campus, 303 Homestead Ave.
The concert is free for HCC students, faculty, and staff, and $10 for the general public. Led by trombonist David Sporny, the Amherst Jazz Orchestra has been a mainstay of the HCC Jazz Festival since the first in 1998.
On Saturday, March 29, starting at 10 a.m. in the Fine & Performing Arts Building, MacDonald and members of the HCC Jazz Festival faculty will lead improvisation clinics, demonstrations, and jam sessions for area high-school and college musicians. Saturday events are free and open to the public.
