January 20, 2005

Discounted Tickets For Boise State University Gene Harris Jazz Festival Available Through January 31

Discounted season tickets for the 2005 Boise State University Gene Harris Jazz Festival are on sale now at all Select-a-Seat outlets. Tickets start at $43 (a 40 percent savings over single-ticket prices) and include admission to April 7 Club Night and evening concerts April 8 and 9. Ticket prices increase on Feb. 1.   Student tickets for the 2005 festival are $12 and include admission to both Friday and Saturday night concerts. A student Club Night ticket is $15.   Headline performers for this year’s festival include jazz vocalist/saxophonist Curtis Stigers and jazz singer Annie Sellick on Friday, April 8, and legendary pianist Ramsey Lewis and his trio on Saturday, April 9. Winning high school bands from each day’s festival competitions will perform prior to the start of the evening concerts, with the main acts taking the stage at 7 p.m. each night.   Club Night performers include Paul Tillotson, Lavay Smith, the Coltrane Project, Interplay and Eleven Eyes, with additional performers still to be announced.   For more information on the 2005 Gene Harris Jazz Festival, including updates of festival performers, visit www.geneharris.org.   -30-   Contact: Hy Kloc, Gene Harris Jazz Festival Executive Director, (208) 947-5667, hkloc@boisestate.edu                                                               Media Contact: Sherry Squires, News Services, (208) 426-1563, ssquires@boisestate.edu