The Mile High Jazz Band with vocalists Sheryl Adams and Cindee LeVal will be joined by six poets and readers for "Odds and Ends," a lively evening of big-band jazz music and poetry.
The event will be on Tuesday, March 11, 7:30-9:30 p.m., at Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, across the street from the state legislature building in Carson City. Admission is $5 general and free for age 18 and under.
The program will feature award-winning poets and readers Rita Geil, Roy Chavez, Joe Crowley, Tim Rhodes, Amy Roby, and Lee Warner. For more information, call the Mile High Jazz Band at 775-883-4154, or visit the web site: MileHighJazz.com.
Meanwhile, the Millennium Bugs, along with Jacki Ford, will be performing for the Rotary Club of Carson City's Sunset Mardi Gras Celebration on March 8, 2014, from 5:00 to 11:00 p.m. at the Carson Nugget Ballroom.
There will be live music and dancing, a Creole Buffet Dinner at 6:00 p.m., and a King of the Mardi Gras Contest. Proceeds benefit local youth programs, including youth leadership training, literacy programs, and foreign exchange programs. Tickets are $50. Rotary hopes to make this an annual event if it is successful, so please let people know about it.
For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Edward Jones Financial (Janice Macauley) at 775-841-6010 or Sierra Oxygen at 775-884-1234 or click here.