The Summer Solstice Jazz Festival will be held June 22-23 in downtown East Lansing. The event will begin at 4:30p.m. and end at 10:30p.m. The afterglow will be located at Beggar’s Banquet, 21 Abbot Road, from 10:45p.m. – 12:30a.m. This free event features local and national jazz performers, produced by the City of East Lansing, Wharton Center for Performing Arts and the Michigan State University College of Music.
The lineup for the Friday show is as follows:
4:30p.m. Detroit Tenors
6:00p.m. Community Music School Jazz Orchestra
7:30p.m. Wycliffe Gordon & Niki Haris
9:15p.m. Ritmo
Interlude Peter Nelson Quartet
After Glow Diego Rivera Quartet
The lineup for the Saturday is as follows:
4:30p.m. Neil Gordon Trio
6:00p.m. Modern Jazz Messenger
7:30p.m. Alexis Cole
9:15p.m. East Lansing Summer Solstice Jazz Orchestra
Interlude Anthony Stanco Quartet
After Glow The LCC Faculty Quartet