Preservation Hall Jazz Band to bring joyful sounds from New Orleans to Goshen

Concert: Performing Arts Series – Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Date: Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Location: Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College
Cost: $40, $35, $20 (regular seating) and $15 (choral terrace, which will be open when regular seating is sold out)
For more information: call (574) 535-7566 or e-mail welcomecenter@goshen.edu
Website: www.preservationhall.com

GOSHEN, Ind. – In its 50th year of entertaining and educating audiences around the world with New Orleans Jazz, Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform its exciting sounds to kick-off the 2010-11 Goshen College Performing Arts Series on Saturday, Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Center's Sauder Concert Hall.

Tickets are still available for the concert for $40, $35, $20 (regular seating) and $15 (choral terrace, which will be open when regular seating is sold out). For more information, contact the Goshen College Welcome Center by calling (574) 535-7566 or e-mailing welcomecenter@goshen.edu.

With a mission of perpetuating the New Orleans Jazz art form, the 2005 devastation of the city by Hurricane Katrina has made the band's efforts ever more significant. The Tucson Weekly writes "New Orleans' Preservation Hall Jazz Band keeps the joyousness alive."

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band derives its name from Preservation Hall, the venerable music venue located in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter, founded in 1961 by Allan and Sandra Jaffe. Whether performing at Carnegie Hall or Lincoln Center, for British Royalty or the King of Thailand, this music embodies a joyful, timeless spirit. Under the auspices of current director, Ben Jaffe, the son of founders Allan and Sandra, Preservation Hall continues with a deep reverence and consciousness of its greatest attributes in the modern day as a venue, band and record label.

The band began touring in 1963 and for many years there were several bands successfully touring under the name Preservation Hall. Many of the band's charter members performed with the pioneers who invented jazz in the early 20th century including Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Bunk Johnson. Band leaders over the band's history include the brothers Willie and Percy Humphrey, husband and wife Billie and De De Pierce, famed pianist Sweet Emma Barrett, and in the modern day Wendall and John Brunious. These founding artists and dozens of others passed on the lessons of their music to a younger generation who now follow in their footsteps like the current lineup.

Editors: For more information about this release, to arrange an interview or request a photo, contact Goshen College News Bureau Director Jodi H. Beyeler at (574) 535-7572 or jodihb@goshen.edu.

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