Wynton Marsalis Performs at 2012 Savannah Music Festival


Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis

The greatest big band in the land returns to Savannah for an evening of full-tilt swing. T h e Savannah Music Festival will hosts Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, March 1, 2012 at 6:00 PM in the Trustees Theater. Celebrating the 50th birthday of bandleader Wynton Marsalis, the orchestra will perform a retrospective of his own compositories and arrangements of big band classics – from the music’s New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz.

SMF has added five more acts in nine individual productions to its 2012 festival, which begins March 22nd and runs through April 7th.

Country artist Justin Townes Earle and The Head , the Heart, Lyle Lovett, and Oregon’s famous band Pink Martini will be performing.

Tickets to these additional productions are on sale at the Trustees theater located at 216 E. Broughton Street, 912-525-5050 and online at www.savannahmusicfestival.org.


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