Mark your calendars now! The 6th Annual All-Star Jazz & Blues Blowout is just around the corner. Sunday, March 16 from 1:30-9:00pm at the new Holiday Inn Hotel & Conference Center, 1001 Killarney St., Urbana (near the corner of I-74 and Lincoln). Our special headliner for this year is Champaign native and Hammond B-3 maestro, Jack McDuff. The tentative line-up is:
· The Blues Deacons · H, the 8th Letter
· Candy Foster & Shades of Blue · Confluence
· Eddie Snow & the Snowflakes · Jack McDuff
Tickets will be available at local record stores in early March, so keep your eyes peeled for that and get out to hear one of C-U's true jazz legends...and several future legends. For more info about the Blowout call 344-8209 or 359-6334
CUJBA, with the help of Prairienet, has set up an e-mail list, CUJBA-L.
The purpose of CUJBA-L is to:
To get on this list, e-mail cujba@prairienet.org
And don't forget, for the latest info on what's happening in the C-U Jazz & Blues scene call the Jazz & Blues Hotline @ FLY-LIVE (359-5483). If you want to get information on the Hotline, leave a message at 359-5483 or e-mail cujba@prairienet.org at least one and a half weeks prior to the gig.
Also, check out our web-site at www.shout.net/cujba/ for weekly listings of the Jazz & Blues Hotline, membership info and past and present issues of the Jazz & Blues News.
As always, we welcome (and need) your energy. So join today and bring your skills to CUJBA to help us meet our goals.
Remember to support local jazz & blues.