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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue Bands will push musical boundaries at the “Super Jazz Jam” on Friday, April 1st (April Fools Day) at 8:00p in Stewart Center’s Loeb Playhouse on the West Lafayette campus. Admission is free for the event featuring the Purdue Jazz Band, American Music Repertory Ensemble, Lab Jazz Band and Concert […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Dancing feet will fill Purdue Memorial Union’s South Ballroom on Friday (Feb. 4) when Purdue Bands stages its annual Jazz Swing Dance that’s open to the campus and the community. From 7:30 to 10 p.m., the American Music Repertory Ensemble, the Lab Jazz Band and Concert Jazz Band will provide music […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tickets are now on sale for the Purdue Jazz Band’s 11th annual “Evening of Romance,” which will celebrate Valentine’s Day on Feb. 12 at University Plaza in West Lafayette. The cabaret-style event, which recreates the atmosphere of big band dance clubs of the 1940s – where couples came to enjoy music, […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue’s Jazz Festival, featuring the premiere of a Brent Wallarab composition, will help highlight this year’s 125th anniversary of Purdue bands. Wallarab, a professional trombonist associated with the Indianapolis-based Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, will serve as a guest artist for the festival, which will be Jan. […]

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The annual 4th of July Stars & Stripes concert and fireworks display is moving to downtown Lafayette for the 2010 celebration. Due to many road construction projects at Purdue University, Slayter Center for the Performing Arts was not available for this year’s event, so the Stars and Stripes planning committee selected the […]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tickets are on sale for the Purdue Jazz Band’s 10th annual Valentine’s Day celebration “Evening of Romance,” scheduled for Feb. 13 at University Plaza in West Lafayette. The cabaret-style event, which recreates the atmosphere of big-band dance clubs of the 1940s — where couples came to enjoy music, dancing, food and […]