The Orchestra and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Coming to MPAC this Fall

Enjoy your favorite Electric Light Orchestra hits from the musicians who originally performed them when The Orchestra takes the stage at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 20, 2017 at 8 pm. Tickets are $39-$59.

Made up of members of ELO and ELO Part 2, The Orchestra performs hits such as "Can't Get It Out of My Head," "Evil Woman," ""Strange Magic," "Livin' Thing," "Telephone Line," "Turn to Stone," "Sweet Talkin Woman," "Mr Blue Sky" and many more.

THE ORCHESTRA is not ELO and is not affiliated with Jeff Lynne. ELO and Electric Light Orchestra were the same band. THE ORCHESTRA does not perform any music recorded by Jeff Lynne or Jeff Lynne's ELO after 1986.

The Band consists of former ELO members Mik Kaminski and Lou Clark, and ELO Part 2 members Eric Troyer, Parthenon Huxley, Gordon Townsend and Glen Burtnik.

Additional information at http://www.theorchestra.net/

Additionally, Grammy-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, fifteen of today's finest jazz soloists and ensemble players, at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 7 pm. Tickets are $59 - $109.

Wynton Marsalis is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine GRAMMY Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz GRAMMYs in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges.

The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy. We believe Jazz is a metaphor for Democracy. Because jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal freedom and encourages individual expression. Because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that freedom to finding and maintaining common ground with others. Because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to face adversity with persistent optimism.

For more information, please visit http://www.jazz.org/about/jlco/jlco-history/. The band roster can be found at: http://www.jazz.org/meet-the-orchestra/.

Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2017-2018 season is made possible, in part, by a grant the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the F.M. Kirby Foundation and numerous corporations, foundations and individuals. The Mayo Performing Arts Center has been designated a Major Presenting Organization by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Mayo Performing Arts Center was named 2016 Outstanding Historic Theatre by the League of Historic American Theatres, and is ranked in the top 50 mid-sized performing arts centers by Pollstar Magazine.

Mayo Performing Arts Center
100 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960
box office (973) 539-8008
online: www.mayoarts.org
fax (973) 455-1607 / admin (973) 539-0345 ext.6505

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