Two Hot Days of Cool Quintessential Jazz, 7th Annual Jazz Festival - Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center

Two Hot Days of Cool Quintessential Jazz - 7th Annual Jazz Festival, Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center

Saturday 12th Performances Postponed To Saturday September 26

Due To Rain

Sunday 13th Performances are still on. It looks to be a beautiful day!

The Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center (OSPAC) announces that the Seventh Annual Jazz Festival will be held on September 12 & 13 at the spectacular OSPAC Amphitheater at Crystal Lake, 4 Boland Drive, West Orange. This event is $10 for adults and $5 for seniors. Children are free. Admission is taken at the entrance.

For the seventh consecutive year, the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center will present an entire weekend of world-class jazz entertainment emceed by WBGO’s Gary Walker, in an open-air setting, complete with international food vendors, artisans and crafts, health spa center, and entertainment and activities for children. This weekend will also include “Paint the Music” led by Nitza Horner, teaching artist and freelance educator affiliated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where patrons will paint what they hear.

"The OSPAC Jazz Festival has grown in seven years to be the most talked about jazz event in the area,” said internationally renowned jazz singer and OSPAC’s Executive Director, Kate Baker. “And this year’s event will be more spectacular than ever. Our lineup of artists is an international mix of quintessential jazz stylists and modern and cultural jazz interpreters.”

“What makes this venue special is not only the beautiful surroundings where you can stroll around the lake, but the superb sound that you can hear from every location,” said guitarist Vic Juris.

This year’s stellar lineup includes: GRAMMY® Award-winning New York Voices, Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars featuring John Lee and special guests; A Tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim with Vic Juris, Kate Baker, Nilson Matta, Zé Mauricio, featuring Claudio Roditi; Dave Stryker and the West Orange All-Stars featuring Billy Hart and Steve Slagle, OSPAC Jazz Workshop Big Band, Cecil Brooks III and Hot D.O.G. featuring Matt Chertkoff, Ali Jackson Trio with Aaron Goldberg and Carlos Henriquez, Nat Adderley, Jr. Trio, Mayra Casales Latin Band with Cuban drummer Francois Zayas, Enrico Granafei, Pam Purvis and the Bob Ackerman Quartet, vocalist Steve Lovell, Bob Devos Organ Trio featuring vocalist Kevin Burke, and Oscar Perez Nuevo Comienzo.

“OSPAC is considered New Jersey’s premier outdoor theater and we are proud of the great performances, like the Jazz Festival, that take place here,” says Mayor John F. McKeon, “I encourage everyone to come out to OSPAC and enjoy the beautiful surroundings at Crystal Lake and experience the season’s signature event.”

http://www.ospac.org/Events/JazzFestival2009/tabid/131/Default.aspx