International Jazz Day In Collins Park April 30 at Collins Park

April 30: The City of Miami Beach and KCC Productions present International Jazz Day from 2-5:30 in Collins Park. The FREE concert opens with the Glyn Dryhurst Dixieland Jazz Band, followed by the FIU Big Band under the direction of Jim Hacker, with guest vocalist Lisanne Lyons. ‪#‎jazzday‬ is a world-wide event hosted by Herbie Hancock in Washington, DC, sponsored by UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

The FIU Big Band is the most visible artistic group at FIU. With over 25 major performances yearly it has become internationally recognized as one of the premier college jazz ensembles in the world. Invitations to the International Association for Jazz Education Convention, the Mid-West Band & Orchestra Clinic, the Wigan Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Quito Jazz Festival, and the Maceo Jazz Festival have taken this world-class group of graduate & undergraduate students beyond the realm of the ‘typical’ college band....

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April 30: The City of Miami Beach and KCC Productions present International Jazz Day from 2-5:30 in Collins Park. The FREE concert opens with the Glyn Dryhurst Dixieland Jazz Band, followed by the FIU Big Band under the direction of Jim Hacker, with guest vocalist Lisanne Lyons. ‪#‎jazzday‬ is a world-wide event hosted by Herbie Hancock in Washington, DC, sponsored by UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

The FIU Big Band is the most visible artistic group at FIU. With over 25 major performances yearly it has become internationally recognized as one of the premier college jazz ensembles in the world. Invitations to the International Association for Jazz Education Convention, the Mid-West Band & Orchestra Clinic, the Wigan Jazz Festival, the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Quito Jazz Festival, and the Maceo Jazz Festival have taken this world-class group of graduate & undergraduate students beyond the realm of the ‘typical’ college band.

Lisanne Lyons is the recipient of several DownBeat awards as a jazz vocal soloist, jazz vocal choir director, and most recently as a jazz arranger. She is in demand as a performer, arranger, adjudicator and clinician. Lisanne has headlined at the Ottawa, Detroit, and Clearwater Jazz Festivals, and La Nuit du Jazz (France). She was the first to perform live the Nelson Riddle arrangements of the George Gershwin Songbook that he wrote for Ella Fitzgerald, who only recorded them.

Dixieland is the name given to the style of jazz performed by early New Orleans jazz musicians. Not often heard today, a handful of dedicated bands keep the music alive. The Glyn Dryhurst Dixieland Band is South Florida’s leading band dedicated to this genre of music.

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