Weekend MPB broadcast to highlight 2016 MSU ragtime jazz festival
Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.—As 51³Ô¹ÏÍø State prepares for its 2017 Charles H. Templeton Ragtime and Jazz Festival and the Gatsby Gala, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Public Broadcasting viewers have an opportunity this weekend to see excerpts of last year’s musical extravaganza.
An hour-long special to begin at 4 p.m. Sunday [Feb. 19], the selection of 2016 performances and interviews with four participating musicians will be presented in two 30-minute segments. Carried on MPB’s high-definition network, the closed-caption broadcasts are special productions of the university’s Television Center.
The popular festival is held on campus each spring semester. MSU Libraries and the Charles H. Templeton Sr. Music Museum, a major unit of the academic repository, are organizers of the multi-faceted event.
To be held March 30-April 1, the 2017 festival will include a first-ever appearance by Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band, along with pianists and composers Brian Holland and Jeff Barnhart, both multiple-time performers in past years at the event. Daytime events take place in the Templeton Museum of Mitchell Memorial Library; evening concerts, the nearby McComas Hall main theater. For more, visit .
In addition to MSU Libraries and the university’s School of Human Sciences, this year’s sponsors include MaxxSouth Broadband, along with the Greater Starkville Development Partnership, 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts.
Admission tickets are available for advance purchase at . Tickets also will be sold at the door.
MPB’s daily schedule is available at ; the Sunday afternoon schedule, at .Ìý
MSU is 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s leading university, available online at .