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The annual celebration of the music of Ella Fitzgerald will take place in her native Newport News, VA in the month of her birth. The Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts is the venue, a beautiful  concert hall on the campus of Christopher Newport University. The event is sponsored by the University and the City of Newport News. The festival brings some of the finest jazz performers to the Hampton Roads area to honor “The First Lady of Song”. This years festival runs from April 7th thru April 18.  More on who’s playing and when after the jump.

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Good news for those jazz fans out there. Not many vocalists have received the acclaim that Jane Monheit has with her new album “The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me”. Monheit will be coming to Rams Head Tavern in Annapolis, MD on Friday, March 6, but we’re also in luck as she’s performing with John Pizarelli at The Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts in Newport News, VA on March 5th. We don’t get much quality vocal jazz in the DC area and its going to be great having her perform on both sides of the Potomac. (more…)