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17th Annual New Smyrna Beach Jazz Festival

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Location New Smyrna Beach
Dates September 22, 2017 - September 24, 2017
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From 17th Annual New Smyrna Beach Jazz Festival Website:

The New Smyrna Beach Jazz Festival is one of Central Floridas premier music events. It is a lively three day affair with great jazz, good food and lots of fun. Flagler Avenue has proven to be the perfect location, with concert goers going from club to club all day from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian River. Through the years the festival has expanded to include Third Avenue, Canal Street, Atlantic Avenue and the North Causeway in New Smyrna Beach.

The first event was in September of 2001. It began when founder, Marc Monteson took action on an idea the Merchants of Flagler Association had for creating an event to help bring traffic to local businesses during the slow time of the year.

By 2014, the festival had grown to 24 venues hosting visitors from 10 states and featuring top name jazz musicians from all over including New Smyrnas own, the late Harold Blanchard.

Several jazz festivals were dedicated to deceased musicians who played at the the festival or were sponsors of the event including Ronnie Jones (2002), Nathen Page (2003), Noble Thin Man Watts (2004), Tim Probst (2007), Christa Kelsey, sponsor (2010), Harold Blanchard (2011), Joe Mose & Bobby Branca (2012), George West (2013), Jennie Monteson, Bruce Presley, Joe Adamik, and Bob Garriques, sponsors (2014).

Jazz was first introduced to the Avenue in the form of Jazz It Up On Flagler Avenue in January, 2000. It was a series of bi-monthly concerts at the Gazebo, at the corner of Pine and Flagler. This event was spear-headed by John and Barbara Vazquez, Anthony Bell and Dave Fernandez. The first two concerts featured Acousticon and Don Nedobeck. After these two shows, Marc was brought in to book some concerts that included Mark Hodgson with Noble Thin Man Watts, Thom Chambers, Lawrence App and Sal Ronci with Linda Cole.
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