Did you know that the nation\u2019s very first jazz festival took place in Wilkes-Barre?<\/p>\n
In fact, a commemorative plaque on Wilkes-Barre’s Public Square reads: \u201cOn February 23, 1951, history was made in Wilkes-Barre. Eight jazz bands got together for \u2018The Cavalcade of Dixieland Jazz\u2019 which became the country’s first jazz festival.\u201d<\/p>\n
To help commemorate and celebrate this historic event \u2013 and to help carry on that legacy –\u00a0The Wilkes-Barre Cavalcade of Jazz\u00a0will be held on May 3, 4 and 5.<\/p>\n
The opening ceremony will be held at the F.M. Kirby Center on Friday night, followed by a Downtown Jazz Walk, with free musical performances at multiple downtown clubs and restaurants including Bank & Vine, Caf\u00e9 Toscana, The Vault, Senunas’ and more. On Saturday afternoon, there will be more great jazz at the Abide Coffeehouse, and on Saturday night, the event\u2019s headliner \u2013 10-time Grammy winner Arturo Sandoval – will perform at the F.M. Kirby Center. Sandoval will be accompanied by with the Cavalcade of Jazz Big Band, under the direction of Marko Marcinko. On Sunday, there will be a special jazz brunch at the beautiful and historic Stegmaier Mansion.<\/p>\n
Visit Luzerne County is a proud sponsor of The Wilkes-Barre Cavalcade of Jazz and we hope to see you there! The plan is for the Wilkes-Barre Cavalcade of Jazz to become an annual event! For more information on the event, visit: The Wilkes-Barre Cavalcade of Jazz \u2013 The website for Wilkes-Barre’s premier Jazz Festival (wilkesbarrecavalcadeofjazz.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Did you know that the nation\u2019s very first jazz festival took place in Wilkes-Barre? In fact, a commemorative plaque on Wilkes-Barre’s Public Square reads: \u201cOn February 23, 1951, history was made in Wilkes-Barre. Eight jazz bands got together for \u2018The Cavalcade of Dixieland Jazz\u2019 which became the country’s first jazz festival.\u201d To help commemorate and… Read More »May 3rd-5th: Join us for The Wilkes-Barre Cavalcade of Jazz!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16591,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16587\/revisions\/16591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}