RSSJazz of all types, art for all tastes can be found at downtown Art and Jazz Festival
Headliner Hazel Miler leads her band during the 2010 Downtown Art & Jazz Festival.
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Gifts for the Goddess with art, poetry and performance will open with a Costume Ball at 6 p.m. Friday, May 6, at Planet Earth & the 4 Directions Gallery, 524 Colorado Ave.
Goddess and god attire is requested at the Costume Ball and there will be an $8 donation at the door.
Performance and entertainment for the evening will be offered by Women’s Tribal Fusion, Kiera and Melissa piano and singing duet, Suzanne Bronson poetry, the Night Bird, Eldreth, One Tribe, and DJ Jett and Friends. Illumicirque also will give the premiere performance of “The Life of a Plastic Bag.”
How do you like your jazz — funky, jazzy or swinging?
Or, all of the above?
Head to the 23rd annual Downtown Grand Junction Art and Jazz Festival from Friday through Sunday, May 6–8, in the 200–300 blocks of Main Street.
More than 50 artist booths will line Main Street, from Second Street to Fourth Street. There will be food vendors, beer from Rockslide Brew Pub and wine from Talon Wine Brands.
The festival also is a good opportunity to look over the 12 new sculpture additions to the Art on the Corner Exhibit. Knit on the Corner also will return to the festival for a second year, featuring knitted material on street fixtures.
The music stage will be set up at Fourth and Main streets. Here is the lineup and festival hours:
Funky Friday, May 6, will go from 4–10 p.m.: Central High School Jazz Band, 4 p.m.; Miss Emily and Project Groove, 6 p.m.; and Buckner Funken Jazz, 8 p.m.
Jazzy Saturday, May 7, will go from noon to 10 p.m.: Fruita Monument High School Jazz Band, noon; Bill Richardson Trio, 2 p.m.; Frank Bregar Orchestra, 4 p.m.; Max Wagner Quartet, 6 p.m.; and Hazel Miller Band, 8 p.m.
Swingin’ Sunday, May 8, will go from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Western Colorado Jazz Orchestra, 10 a.m.; Jeff Solon Swing’n Big Band, noon; and Walt Smith and Friends, 2 p.m.
All floors of the Rood Avenue parking garage will be open for free parking. Festival organizers ask that pets be left at home.
Go to downtowngj.org or call 245-9697 for information.
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