Press Release
December 28, 2007
“Kaukauna Jazz Strings Festival and Concert”

The second annual Kaukauna Jazz Strings Festival and Concert will take place on Sat. Feb. 9 at Kaukauna High School.
The festival will feature jazz clinics from 9am-4pm and will include middle school, high school and college tracks according to Kaukauna schools orchestra director Lori Lacey.
In addition a jazz guitar component has been added this year.
Clinicians for the daytime festival are violinist Randy Sabien, Yamaha artist/cellist Matt Turner, bassist Mark Urness and guitarist Jim Kanas.
The festival is open to visiting schools and universities and also is open to middle school, high school and college age individuals who may register on site for the daytime clinics for a fee of $10.

The festival will be capped off by an evening concert, which will feature the nationally known clinicians and Lawrence Conservatory Director of Percussion Studies Dane Richeson.
In addition the Kaukauna High School Orchestra will premier a jazz strings composition by University of Southern Carolina professor Bert Ligon commissioned to commemorate the festival. “ This will be a spectacular concert,” states Lacey. “Randy Sabien, Matt Turner and jazz guitarist Jim Kanas are among the top jazz string players in the nation, and the Fox Valley needs little introduction to Lawrence professors Mark Urness and Dane Richeson. Attendance at this concert will be a great way to break out of the mid-winter doldrums for anyone that attends.”

Tickets for the concert are $12 general admission and can be purchased at the door of the Bernie Hupperts Center for the Performing Arts at Kaukauna High School. The festival is sponsored by Yamaha, Heid Music, the International Association of Jazz Educators and the Kaukauna Orchestra Parents. Further information can be obtained by contacting Lacey at 766-6113, ext. 5016.