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June 26, 2017

Midsummer brings the Skidmore Jazz Institute to campus, where budding musicians spend two intensive weeks learning from jazz greats young and old. As part of this year's institute, six public concerts will take place in the Zankel Music Center: 

June 27, 8 p.m.: Terell Stafford Quintet [tickets here]

David Wong at jazz institute
Institute faculty member David Wong
coaching a participant

June 29, 8 p.m.: Skidmore Jazz All-Stars, featuring institute faculty [tickets here]

June 30, 1 p.m.: Skidmore Jazz Institute participants, free of charge [livestream here

July 5, 8 p.m.: Skidmore Jazz All-Stars, featuring institute faculty [tickets here

July 6, 8 p.m.: Jon Batiste and Stay Human, a Stewart’s Signature event to benefit the institute’s McCormack Scholarship Fund [tickets here]

July 7, 1 p.m.: Skidmore Jazz Institute participants, free of charge [livestream here

For more about these concerts, click here

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