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The 2nd Annual Jazz Run – Supporting Scholarships for Kids In-Need!
All proceeds support Litchfield Jazz Camp scholarships for students in financial need. Flat course - USTAF Certified (#CT14024JHP). Saturday, September 13th Camp Cochipianee 291 Beach Street, Goshen, CT 06756 $22 in advance, $27 on race day. Strollers welcome! (BOXED LUNCH PRE-ORDER NOW CLOSED. PLEASE BRING A PICNIC) PRE-ORDER A BOXED LUNCH WHEN YOU REGISTER $12 per person / a vegetarian and non-vegetarian option available. Cash prizes for top male and female runners!! Post-Race Picnic New this year, you may pre-order a tasty boxed lunch. Bring blankets or chairs for the lawn. Beverages and some snacks will be provided thanks to…
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The Jazz Run – Supporting Scholarships for Kids In-Need!
All proceeds will support Litchfield Jazz Camp scholarships for in-need students. Five Mile Run / Two Mile Fun Walk Sunday, September 29th Camp Cochipianee 291 Beach Street, Goshen, CT 06756 Registration - 9:00 am - 9:45 am 5 Mile Run - Start Time at 10:00 a.m. Pre-registration $22. 2 Mile Fun Walk - Start Time at 10:00 am -strollers welcome! Pre-registration $10. Cash prizes for top three male and female runners!! For more information visit Post-Race Picnic at 11 am. Bring blankets, chairs and picnic munchies. Beverages will be provided. It wouldn't be a JAZZ run without music by Litchfield Jazz Camp's…
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4th Annual “Afternoon of Jazz & Friends”
Join us for our 4th Annual fundraiser for in-need students to attend Litchfield Jazz Camp. Enjoy a lovely reception, great music by Litchfield Jazz Campers AND a showcase of young star and LJC alumnus, Emmet Cohen and his Trio, who will be making their Festival debut on Friday, August 9th. Get in on the chance to purchase small-group experiences, including cheese-making with Kim Thorne at Thornecrest Farm, a cooking class and tasting with noted chef Chris Prosperi (Metro Bis, Simsbury), and a private jazz concert and wine tasting at Miranda Vineyard. Tickets to the event start at $100. Please call…
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4th Annual Jazz and Friends Concert
Litchfield Jazz Festival presents "Jazz & Friends," its fourth in a series of annual afternoons of music and fundraising fun for the benefit of Litchfield Jazz Camp Scholarships. Over the last 17 years Litchfield Jazz Camp has granted over 20% of its students need-based scholarships annually. Granted funds are vulnerable, and ours are no exception with significant cuts in available funding in recent years. As a result we endeavor to raise support for our most in-need students at events like Jazz & Friends. Our goal for this event is to raise $18,000-$20,000 for scholarships. A special thanks to our hosts,…
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3rd Annual Jazz and Friends Concert
Litchfield Jazz Festival is presenting Jazz & Friends, its third in a series of annual afternoons of music and fundraising fun for the benefit of Litchfield Jazz Camp Scholarships. Over the last 16 years Litchfield Jazz Camp has granted over 20% of its students need-based scholarships annually. A portion of these funds in recent years have been made available by a State of Connecticut Department of Education program. However, as we all know, all granted funds are vulnerable, and ours is no exception. Our’s was cut by 46% last year. So we continue to endeavor to raise support for our…
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Christmas Tree-O: A Holiday Concert with Matt Wilson
The Litchfield Jazz Festival is pleased to announce “Christmas Tree-O: A Holiday Concert” featuring Artist-in-Residence, drummer, Matt Wilson. Join us at St. Andrew's Church in Kent on Saturday, December 11th at 3:00 PM. The concert will feature festive jazzy tunes from his latest release, “Christmas Tree-O,” out now on Palmetto Records. Matt Wilson kicked-off his stint as the Festival’s first Artist-in-Residence last August, when he taught at Litchfield Jazz Camp, led Artist Talks with Dave Brubeck and Mario Pavone, and performed twice at the 15th Anniversary of the Litchfield Jazz Festival held at Kent School. Wilson has performed on the…
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Project Poetry Live! Performance 2010
Project Poetry Live! (PPL!), is about to celebrate its 18th year. The Litchfield Performing Arts founded program, was established in the ‘90s by Executive & Artistic Director, Vita West Muir, with the vision of giving children the opportunity to interact with peers of different cultural backgrounds in a professional arts environment. Each year PPL! brings professional artists, poets, dancers and musicians together with some 1,200 middle and high school students from five Connecticut school districts (Litchfield, Plymouth, Thomaston, Waterbury and Watertown) at no cost to the students. The program is funded through a grant from the Connecticut State Department of…
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Project Poetry Live! Final Performance
Project Poetry Live! has now affected a generation of students. Founded in 1995, PPL brings professional poets, artists, musicians, and dancers into five Connecticut school districts to work with 1,100 middle and high school students every year. See the culmination of this year-round project on Friday, June 4th where students will dance, play in the jazz band, display their murals, have their poetry read and their art displayed. Then enjoy a professional performance by the Matthew Westerby Company, who has been teaching our students for weeks prior to this performance. PPL receives support from the Connecticut State Department of Education Interdistrict Cooperative Grants Program, Connecticut Commission…
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Litchfield Jazz Festival and Kent Lion’s Club present “An Afternoon of Jazz – Celebrating the Music of Ellington & Porter”
The Litchfield Jazz Festival and Kent Lions Club present the second annual “Afternoon of Music.” This year’s concert, “An Afternoon of Classics & Jazz,” celebrates the music of Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and others. Held at Kent School’s Mattison Auditorium on Saturday, February 6th from 4-6 PM, it features Kent’s own celebrated pianist Dolph Traymon, and professionals and outstanding young talents from Litchfield Jazz Camp. Organized as the Kent Lions Club’s winter fundraiser, the proceeds from the concert will benefit the Kent Lions charitable giving and support scholarships to one or more Kent students to attend Litchfield Jazz Camp this…
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