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January Thaw Music Festival at CSC: 3hree for Louis: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong

Sunday, January 22, 2017 - 2:00pm

Centenary Stage Company plans to heat things up this winter with its annual January Thaw Music Festival.  This year’s features three exciting performances during the month of January in the Sitnik Theater of the Lackland Performing Arts Center.  The festival includes; The HooDoo Loungers on Saturday, January 14 at 8pm; Sweet Plantain Quartet on Saturday, January 28 at 8pm and 3hree for Louis: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong on Sunday, January 22 at 2pm.             

One of New York’s most versatile musicians, Eddie Allen, brings three trumpeters and an all – star ensemble to pay tribute to the great Louis Armstrong with 3hree for Louis: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong. Trumpeter, composer, arranger, author Eddie Allen is one of the  more versatile musicians on the New York scene. He’s called upon to play everything from jazz to R&B/Pop to Latin to symphonic to Broadway, and everything in between.  Allen has worked with such jazz greats as; Art Blakey, Billy Harper, Randy Weston, Dizzy Gillespie, Henry Threadgill, Bobby Watson, Jon Faddis, Benny Carter, Panama Francis, Joe Henderson and Steve Turre.  He has recorded and performed with, as well as composed for: Louis Hayes, Lester Bowie, Jack McDuff, Etta Jones & Houston Person, Mongo Santamaria, Chico Freeman, Charli Persip, Vanessa Rubin and Muhal Richard Abrams.  Allen has performed in Broadway orchestras and authored an instructional method book while continuing to work as a freelance musician and clinician

Tickets for 3hree for Louis: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong are $25 for adults and $17.50 for children under 12 in advance.  As with all concerts, jazz and special events ticket prices increase $5 on the day of the performance.

For more information or to purchase tickets visit centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company box office at 908-979-0900.  The box office is located in the Lackland Center on the campus of Centenary University; 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown and is open Monday through Friday from 1 to 5pm and two hours prior to every performance.  Centenary Stage Company can also be found across social media platforms; Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.  Like and follow to receive the latest CSC news and updates.

Centenary Stage Company

Centenary Stage Company is a performing arts center located on the campus of Centenary University. Year-round events include Professinal Theater Series, music events, dance events, a Women Playwrights Series, Young Performers Workshop, an annual holiday spectatular, and more!

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