Calendar Listings: The 2016 Big Broadcast

DATELINE: December 18, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CALENDAR LISTINGS

The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College

present

THE BIG BROADCAST !

The 11th Edition

Sunday, March 6, 2016

2PM and 7PM

Chapin Auditorium

Mount Holyoke College

South Hadley, MA 01075

The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College's 11th annual presentation

of a live 1940’s radio broadcast created by Mark Gionfriddo (onstage as 

“Matt Morgan”) with WWLP-TV meteorologist Brian Lapis as emcee

“Fred Kelley”. Under Gionfriddo’s direction, the Mount Holyoke Big Band, 

Vocal Jazz, and Chamber Jazz Ensembles perform well-known tunes

from the swing era, including music by the Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, 

Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Artie Shaw, among others.

Sponsors (to date) include Mount Holyoke College, 22News/WWLP.com, and Loomis Communities.

Tickets are general admission. $20.00 premium front and center seating. 

$15.00 regular seating. $10.00 seniors and students. Tickets are available 

(beginning January 15, 2016) at the UMASS Fine Arts Center Box-Office 

in Amherst; at the Odyssey Bookshop, Village Commons, South Hadley; 

and at the door (subject to availability).  For phone orders: 413-545-2511 

or 1-800-999-UMASS. Online ticket purchases will be available through the 

UMass Fine Arts Center.

For information on The Jazz Ensembles of Mount Holyoke College:https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/music/jazz-0

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