LYCOMING COLLEGE HOSTS "A NIGHT OF SALSA"

WILLIAMSPORT, PA – Lycoming College’s Jazz Ensemble brings a taste of Latin America to Williamsport with "A Night of Salsa" on November 7 at 8pm in Clarke Chapel.

Conductor and music professor Christopher Woodruff announced that the music department will begin to feature more music that incorporates a Latin American influence. The Jazz Ensemble is following suit with a program that will emphasize Latin jazz. The ensemble will feature a number of beats such as bossa nova, salsa, meringue, and covering charts by Dizzy Gillespie, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Juan Tizol.

The fifteen- piece Jazz ensemble, in its second year of existence, seeks to bring in accomplished jazz performers as guest artists. Featured in the past have been Lycoming alumni Dick Adams, a local saxophonist. For "A Night of Salsa" recording artist Tim Breon, known throughout the region for his bass and guitar abilities, performs with the ensemble for this concert.

Admission to the performance is free to the public. For more information, consult the Lycoming College Website or contact the music department at (570) 321-4016.