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Jazz For Young People Family Concert: What Is New Orleans Jazz?

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JAZZ FOR YOUNG PEOPLE® FAMILY CONCERT EXPLORES “WHAT IS NEW ORLEANS JAZZ?" SATURDAY, APRIL 21ST AT 1 AND 3 PM

In this exciting interactive concert, jazz drummer and educator Alvin Atkinson and friends invite families to join the Second Line parade and express their own personal style through movement and song as they learn the language of New Orleans jazz. Together they'll explore collective improvisation, call and response, grooves and learn about the instruments in the band, all while enjoying New Orleans classics like “Audubon Zoo" and “When the Saints Go Marching In." For more information, visit jalc.org/jfyp.

Show are Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1pm & 3pm. Free pre-concert educational activities begin at 12:15 pm & 2:15 pm, respectively.

Shows presented at Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY.

Tickets for the Jazz for Young People concert are $12, $20, and $28 and can be purchased through jalc.org or CenterCharge at 212-721-6500, open daily from 9am to 9pm. Tickets can also be purchased at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office, located on Broadway at 60th Street, ground floor. Box office hours are Monday through Saturday from 10am - 6pm and Sunday from 12pm - 6pm.

Jazz for Young People is generously funded by Con Edison Community Partnership Fund, The Irene Diamond Fund, The Heckscher Foundation for Children, the Arthur Levine Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. The program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Mastercard is the preferred card of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly acknowledges its major corporate partners: Brooks Brothers, Bloomberg, Centric, The Coca-Cola Company, Con Edison, HSBC, MasterCard, Related, SiriusXM.

Time Out New York Kids is the official media partner of the 2011-12 Jazz for Young People concert series.

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