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$55 Newport Jazz Festival® Discount Tickets End July 12; Festival Office Opens

6/29/2015

 

$55 Newport Jazz Festival® 
Discount Tickets End July 12

Newport Festivals Foundation’s 

Middletown Office Is Now Open

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NEWPORT, RI, June 30, 2015 – There’s still time to take advantage of the great local discount for Newport Jazz Festival® tickets. Head to the Newport Visitors Information Center, 23 America’s Cup Avenue, or the Newport Festivals Foundation™ office at 770 Aquidneck Avenue in Middletown by July 12 to take advantage of $55 General Admission tickets for concerts at Fort Adams State Park on Saturday, August 1, and Sunday, August 2.  Beginning Monday, July 13, single-day tickets for Saturday and Sunday will be $74 in advance and then $84 on festival days.  This special discount for local residents and visitors to Newport is not available on-line.

General Admission tickets to Friday at Fort Adams (July 31) are $40 and also available at the Visitors Information Center and Festival office.


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Newport Jazz Festival Celebrates 60 Years of Miles Davis

6/25/2015

 

Newport Jazz Festival Celebrates 
60 Years of Miles Davis
on New "Storyville" Stage, August 1-2

Award-winning Author Ashley Kahn Curates
Four Panel Discussions and Presents Music
from the 

New Columbia/Legacy Recordings Box Set 

Miles Davis at Newport 1955-1975: 

The Bootleg Series Vol.4
To Be Available Everywhere on July 17 


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NEWPORT, RI, June 24, 2015 – When a teenage George Wein regularly left his parents’ home in Newton, MA, to sneak down to the Big Apple to catch concerts on legendary 52nd Street, he had no idea that his love for jazz would lead to a life-long music career, including owning Storyville, a world-class jazz club in Boston that was home to every major jazz star, and creating the iconic Newport Jazz Festival.

Wein also built enduring friendships with some of the world’s leading musicians. Among his friends was trumpet player Miles Davis, whom he first met in 1952 when they were both beginning to make names for themselves.  Miles brought down the house at                              Storyville, whenever he performed there; and he received the same rave reaction on the stage at the second annual Newport Jazz Festival in scenic Newport, RI.  



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