The best in jazz since 1987.
Information
- Founded:
- 1987
MCG Jazz Upcoming Concerts
Beggar's Holiday
December 18 - 20, 2009
$42.50
Click here to buy tickets!
David Sanborn
January 29, 2010
SOLD OUT!
Bob James & Keiko Matsui
February 12 - 14, 2010
$42.50
Click here to buy tickets!
Ella Fitzgerald Tribute
February 27 & 28, 2010
$42.50
Click here to buy tickets!
McCoy Tyner Quartet
March 13, 2010
$42.50
Click here to buy tickets!
Lionel Loueke & Gretchen Parlato
March 26, 2010
$42.50
Click here to buy tickets!
Ahmad Jamal
April 9, 2010
$42.50
Click here to buy tickets!
Paquito D'Rivera
April 23 - 25, 2010
$42.50
Click here to buy tickets!
Favorite Pages
Photos
2 of 12 albumsSee All
Beggar's HolidayCreated about 3 weeks ago
Wall PhotosCreated about a month ago
Events
9 past eventsSee All
- Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday
MCG Jazz Hall, Manchester Craftsmen...
Friday, December 18 at 8:00pm - Bach, Beethoven & Brunch
Mellon Park, Fifth & Shady Avenues
Sunday, July 19 at 10:30am - Monterey Jazz Festival's Next ...
James Gallery
Monday, July 13 at 7:30pm - James Moody
James Gallery
Monday, June 22 at 7:30pm - The Tierney Sutton Band
Manchester Craftmen's Guild
Saturday, March 14 at 7:00pm - The Heath Brothers at MCG Jazz...
MCG Jazz
Saturday, March 7 at 7:00pm - Pittsburgh Young Professionals...
MCG Jazz
Friday, February 27 at 8:30pm - Kurt Elling
MCG Jazz
Friday, February 27 at 7:00pm - Take 6
MCG Jazz
Saturday, January 31 at 7:00pm
MCG Jazz It's your turn to let us know who you want to see at MCG Jazz. Comment below with a few of your faves that a) haven't been here in the last couple of years and b) are still alive (we get a lot of people requesting dead artists.... interesting...)
MCG Jazz Back to work today. Next big show: David Sanborn, SOLD OUT! Send me an email at akline@mcg-btc.org if you want to be put on the waiting list. Also, Bob James & Keiko Matsui, February 12 - 14. Not sold out.... yet!
MCG Jazz The show is definitely still on tonight! Come on out!
MCG Jazz
MCGJazz has been offered the chance to earn a little extra money this weekthrough igive.com, a special search engine that gives back tonon-profits for every search. By registering for igive.com using thelink below and performing just one search on igive.com, IgGve willdonate $1 per new member to MCG Jazz!Soregister tod...ay!
All searches must be completed by noon tomorrow (Thursday, December 17) so time is very limited!If
you search more (or buy something) you'll earn even more money for MCG
Jazz.Right now, IGive donating $.02 per search and a bonus $5 for that
first purchase plus the usual IGive percentage.
www.igive.com
iGive : Raise money for your favorite cause, every time you search the web. No hidden fees. No vague percentages. No limits. And, donation checks are sent promptly, every month. It's completely free for you and the cause you support. ...
MCG Jazz This guy takes his jazz very seriously...
www.guardian.co.uk
Festival-goer claims it was 'psychologically inadvisable' for him to hear Larry Ochs Sax and Drumming Core perform
MCG Jazz Very interesting article for jazz fans, musicians and music professionals.
www.newsweek.com
The music may never again be a popular force, but it is still swinging—if you know where to listen.
MCG Jazz
This just in: Save $10 per ticket for Beggar's Holiday! Just go to http://bit.ly/T4rfQ
and use the code holiday09 in the Holiday Promo box!
bit.ly
MCG Jazz Check it out fans... scroll down and look to the left.... direct links to buy tickets for everything in the season. It couldn't be any easier!
Paul Anderson
Marty and Jay Ashby Happy Holidays and thank you for all the outstanding productions you consistently bring to Jazz!
Best regards,
Paul Anderson KJZZ, Phoenix
http://icompositions.com/artists/pauland
MCG Jazz Coming to MCG Jazz: Paquito D'Rivera, who was just nominated for two Grammys! See him here April 23- 25, buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/T4rfQ
Official Fan Page of Paquito D'Rivera. A 9 times GRAMMY award winner, National Medal of the Arts recipient, 2005 NEA Jazz Master, and Living Jazz Legend Award honoree from the Kennedy Center, Paquito D'Rivera artistry with Clarinet and Saxophone defies boundaries spanning jazz and classical genres.
Musician:2,837 fans
MCG Jazz
Mac is back – and he’s Happy! Duke Ellington's only Broadway show - an updated and totally Americanized version by Dale Wasserman of the Threepenny Opera starring the lovable rogue Happy Mac. Romance, thievery, corruption, passion – Mac is back in town! And he is accompanied by the incomparable sound of MCG Jazz.
Beggar...'s Holiday exploded onto Broadway in 1947, when it was Broadway's first racially-integrated musical. Ellington’s retelling of the Threepenny Opera features text by John La Touche and Dale Wasserman, who went on to write the hit stage shows Man of La Mancha and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Its wickedly funny commentary on greed and corruption sounds positively present-day!
DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Eaton
MUSIC DIRECTORS: Marty Ashby and Mike Tomaro
SET DESIGN: Marlene Miller
LIGHTING DESIGN: Chris Popowich
COSTUME DESIGN: Kenneth Chu
CHOREOGRAPHY: Greer Reed and Kaylin Horgan
CAST:
Happy Mac: Tim Robert Blevins
Polly Peachum: Roberta Burke
Miss Jenny: Denise Sheffey-Powell
Sneaky Pete: Eric LaJuan Summers
Mr. Peachum: Kevin Brown
Cap'n Lockit: Martin Giles
Cozy Cool: Maureen Budway
Lucy Lockit: Jara Dorsey
Mrs. Peachum: Anna Singer
Gunsel: Roland Burks
Fingersmith: Jason Shavers
Wireboy: Elias Hendricks
Highbinder: Monte J. Howell
Dolly Diddle: Cristina Calise
Betty Doxie: Ernesta Pollard
Flora Fourways: Liz Benvin
SHOWS:
Friday, Dec. 18 @ 8
Saturday, Dec. 19 @ 8
Sunday, Dec. 20 @ 2:30
Time:8:00PM Friday, December 18th
Location:MCG Jazz Hall, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
RECENT ACTIVITY
MCG Jazz wrote on Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday's Wall.
MCG Jazz wrote on Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday's Wall.
