12th Annual WBOI Jazz Festival

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Date(s): February 17, 2012
12th Annual WBOI Jazz Festival
Friday, February 17, 2012
7 - 11pm

Seasoned veterans and newcomers to the annual jazz festival will be thrilled with the spacious venues and exceptional line-up. Guests travel throughout the building enjoying different genres of jazz performing at the same time. Whatever it is you are looking for - straight ahead jazz, piano, blues, fusion or a sound yet to be realized - you can find it.  

Choose between fourteen different jazz bands and combos at five separate performance areas, culminating with a performance by Eric Alexander and the IPFW Jazz Ensemble in the Auer Performance Hall.  Food and drink by Club Soda will be available for purchase, one of Fort Wayne’s favorite establishments. Enjoy the jazz and meet the voices you hear on WBOI 89.1 FM.
 
Food and beverages will be sold in the Auer Lobby to be enjoyed in the lobby while different jazz combos entertain you from the moment you walk in the door.  
 
Pre-Sale Ticket Prices
$10 - 18 and younger
$15 NIPR members and IPFW students
$20 General Admission
All tickets at the door $25

Purchase tickets at the IPFW Larson Ticket Office in the Athletics Center Monday - Friday 12:30 – 6:30 p.m, order by phone 260-481-6555, email albaughr@ipfw.edu, or online at www.nipr.fm

Featured Performers:          
Eric Alexander, tenor saxophone         
IPFW Jazz Ensemble                 
IPFW Faculty Jazz Combo             
WT Feaster Blues Band             
Alicia Pyle Quartet                 
Continuum                         
Monika Herzig Acoustic Project             
Larry Ford Trio                     
Groove Caravan                     
Todd Harrold Band
Sweetwater Jazz Combo
Rhapsody In Wax
Brandon Drew Jazz Quintet
Janiece Jaffe and Peter Kienle  

Featured Venues throughout the beautiful IPFW Rhinehart Music Center:
Rhinehart Choral Studio
Rhinehart Instrumental Studio
250-seat Rhinehart Recital Hall
1500-seat Auer Performance Hall
Spacious Auer Lobby
 
Rhinehart Music Center
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Rhinehart Music Center
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2101 East Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Phone: (260) 481-3493
The IPFW John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center was designed to serve the university and the community. Visually exciting, the building was created with glass-prismed piano studios, a conference room and lobbies that provide exquisite space for learning and interaction, with panoramic views of the IPFW Arts Plaza and the heart of the campus. Inside and out, the Rhinehart Music Center sings.
 
A brick design surrounds the exterior of the building, creating an architectural “score” with a 2nd floor treble staff and a 1st floor bass staff. Windows represent notes and glass prisms add musical accents. Inside, each space has been fine tuned.
 
Teaching studios, rehearsal spaces, and practice rooms are acoustically isolated and calibrated. Multiple programs can occur at the same time without interfering with each other. Each building element was designed to enhance sound.

For acoustic balance, the Auer Performance Hall and Rhinehart Recital Hall feature wood and canvas reflector panels hanging from the superstructure to accommodate unamplified vocals and instrumentation as well as amplified spoken word.