Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Presented by Citizens
Launches the MVP (Music Is Very Powerful ) Program,
Offering Students/Regional Musicians 500 Complimentary Tickets
to Concerts at Highmark Stadium, September 16 and 17
FREE Community Concerts and The Jazz Crawl
Spread the Joy of Jazz Across the City
Launches the MVP (Music Is Very Powerful ) Program,
Offering Students/Regional Musicians 500 Complimentary Tickets
to Concerts at Highmark Stadium, September 16 and 17
FREE Community Concerts and The Jazz Crawl
Spread the Joy of Jazz Across the City
PITTSBURGH, PA, August 29, 2023 – The Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival Presented by Citizens launches the MVP (Music is Very Powerful) Program to continue to nurture the next generation of music audiences, deliver jazz to seniors in their communities, support musicians, and bring jazz to neighborhoods across the region. The program will offer a minimum 500 complimentary festival passes for Saturday and Sunday at Highmark Stadium on September 16-17, 2023. Regional musicians will receive 100 festival passes and 400 local high school and college students, with valid ID, will receive general admission festival passes.
Janis Burley Wilson, President/Artistic Director of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center says, “Jazz music is passed down through friends and family, shared, and cultivated by exposure to the music, to the technique of masters, and is impactful. Music has fueled social justice movements, sustains us through tragedy and is a celebration of triumph. We are striving to create an environment of sharing and continue to support the local jazz scene in Pittsburgh.”
Leading up to the festival, the PIJF will partner with the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh to host FREE community concerts, Jazz in Your Library. The schedule is:
Leading up to the festival, the PIJF will partner with the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh to host FREE community concerts, Jazz in Your Library. The schedule is:
- September 2, 1:00-2:00 pm: Dennis Garner – Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Hazelwood Branch, 5006 Second Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15207
- September 7, 5:30-6:30 pm: George Heid III – Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Woods Run Branch, 1201 Woods Run Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
- September 9, 1:00-2:00 pm: Howie Alexander – Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Homewood Branch, 7101 Hamilton Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15208
- September 12, 5:30-6:30 pm: Anita Levels – Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Brookline Branch, 708 Brookline Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA 15226
Community Concerts with $5.00 cover charge (all proceeds benefit live music in these communities) include:
- September 8, 7:00-9:00 pm: James Johnson III Trio – Wilkinsburg-Eastridge Cultural Center, 1900 Graham Blvd, Wilkinsburg, PA 15221
- September 15, 5:00-7:00 pm: Joe DeFazio, Calvin Stemley, Terry Levels & Dan Wasson – The Barn, 237 Jefferson Road, Penn Hills, PA 15235
The annual Jazz Crawl winds its way across the city on Friday, September 15, at area restaurants. Prices and cover charges vary.
Reggie Watkins Sextet ft. Roger Humphries, 10:00 pm-1:00 am
Stew Cutler Band (NYC), September 16, 6:00-9:00 pm
Roger Humphries & RH Factor, September 16, 10:00 pm-1:00 am
New Orleans Jazz Brunch w/ The Colby's, September 17, 12:00-3:00 pm
For more information, please visit www.pittsburghjazzfest.org
- Cioppino Restaurant & Cigar Bar (Strip District), 2350 Railroad Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 | (412) 281-6593 | cioppinoofpittsburgh.com, Lori Russo & Key Factor, 7:00 pm-10:00 pm
- Thunderbird Café & Music Hall, 4053 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 | (412) 682-0177 | thunderbirdmusichall.com
- Con Alma (Downtown), 613 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 | (412) 932-2387 | conalmapgh.com
Reggie Watkins Sextet ft. Roger Humphries, 10:00 pm-1:00 am
Stew Cutler Band (NYC), September 16, 6:00-9:00 pm
Roger Humphries & RH Factor, September 16, 10:00 pm-1:00 am
New Orleans Jazz Brunch w/ The Colby's, September 17, 12:00-3:00 pm
- Eddie V’s, Union Trust Building, 501 Grant St #100, Pittsburgh, PA 15219 | (412) 391-1714 | eddiev.com. Live Jazz 6:00-11:00 pm, Grace Elliot
- The Barn, 237 Jefferson Road, Penn Hills, PA 15235 | (412) 247-9066 |
For more information, please visit www.pittsburghjazzfest.org
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SPONSORS
Special thanks to Citizens, the Presenting Sponsor for the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival. Additional sponsorship support is provided by UPMC, UPMC Health Plan, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Doris Duke Foundation, Comcast NBC Universal and Xfinity and P&W BMW and Mini of Pittsburgh. Presenting Sponsor, Libation Station Tent, is Bacardi.
CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $226.7 billion in assets as of June 30, 2022. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. Citizens helps its customers reach their potential by listening to them and by understanding their needs in order to offer tailored advice, ideas and solutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens provides an integrated experience that includes mobile and online banking, a full-service customer contact center and the convenience of approximately 3,300 ATMs and more than 1,200 branches in 14 states and the District of Columbia. Consumer Banking products and services include a full range of banking, lending, savings, wealth management and small business offerings. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers a broad complement of financial products and solutions, including lending and leasing, deposit and treasury management services, foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity risk management solutions, as well as loan syndication, corporate finance, merger and acquisition, and debt and equity capital markets capabilities. More information is available at www.citizensbank.com or visit on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is a non-profit cultural organization located in Pittsburgh’s cultural district that generates artistic, educational, and community initiatives that advance the legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. One of the largest cultural centers in the country focused exclusively on the African American experience and the celebration of Black culture and the African diaspora, the non-profit organization welcomes more than 119,000 visitors locally and nationally. Through year-round programming across multiple genres, such as the annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, Black Bottom Film Festival, AWCommunity Days, TRUTHSayers speaker series, and rotating art exhibits in its galleries, the Center provides a platform for established and emerging artists of color whose work reflects the universal issues of identity that Wilson tackled, and which still resonate today. www.awaacc.org.
Special thanks to Citizens, the Presenting Sponsor for the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival. Additional sponsorship support is provided by UPMC, UPMC Health Plan, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, Doris Duke Foundation, Comcast NBC Universal and Xfinity and P&W BMW and Mini of Pittsburgh. Presenting Sponsor, Libation Station Tent, is Bacardi.
CITIZENS FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.
Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is one of the nation’s oldest and largest financial institutions, with $226.7 billion in assets as of June 30, 2022. Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, Citizens offers a broad range of retail and commercial banking products and services to individuals, small businesses, middle-market companies, large corporations and institutions. Citizens helps its customers reach their potential by listening to them and by understanding their needs in order to offer tailored advice, ideas and solutions. In Consumer Banking, Citizens provides an integrated experience that includes mobile and online banking, a full-service customer contact center and the convenience of approximately 3,300 ATMs and more than 1,200 branches in 14 states and the District of Columbia. Consumer Banking products and services include a full range of banking, lending, savings, wealth management and small business offerings. In Commercial Banking, Citizens offers a broad complement of financial products and solutions, including lending and leasing, deposit and treasury management services, foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity risk management solutions, as well as loan syndication, corporate finance, merger and acquisition, and debt and equity capital markets capabilities. More information is available at www.citizensbank.com or visit on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.
The August Wilson African American Cultural Center is a non-profit cultural organization located in Pittsburgh’s cultural district that generates artistic, educational, and community initiatives that advance the legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson. One of the largest cultural centers in the country focused exclusively on the African American experience and the celebration of Black culture and the African diaspora, the non-profit organization welcomes more than 119,000 visitors locally and nationally. Through year-round programming across multiple genres, such as the annual Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, Black Bottom Film Festival, AWCommunity Days, TRUTHSayers speaker series, and rotating art exhibits in its galleries, the Center provides a platform for established and emerging artists of color whose work reflects the universal issues of identity that Wilson tackled, and which still resonate today. www.awaacc.org.
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Above Photo: Pianist Howie Alexander
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