Featuring jazz talent of all ages, B-Town Jazz will be bringing back the Grant Street Jazz Festival for its third year. The festival features musicians from high school and college as well as professionals from the Bloomington area, according to a press release.
This year there will be two headliners, The IU Jazz Faculty Octet and Wayne Wallace and his Latin Jazz Octet with Michael Spiro.
The Faculty Octet includes members of the IU faculty such as Tom Walsh, Ly Wilder and Luke Gillespie among others.
The Latin Jazz Octet has been nominated for a Grammy four times and is a DownBeat jazz trombone poll award nominee.
Other performers include Atomic Dog Brass Band, Nate Johnson and the Keepers and Sarah’s Swing Set Quartet.
Food, beer and wine will be available for guests to purchase within the festival site at Kirkwood and Sixth Street. Free parking will be available at the Poplars parking garage and in the IU parking lots adjacent, east and west of Noodles and Company.
Festival guests are encouraged to bring portable lawn chairs since seating at the festival will be limited, according to the press release.
Apart from the Grant Street Jazz Festival, B-Town Jazz programs a variety of other events throughout the year such as the Future of Jazz Concert as well as having a stage at the Taste of Bloomington.
Anu Kumar
