City of Newark Designates July 25, 2008 “James Moody Day”
The City Of Newark And County Of Essex Will Honor Jazz Saxophonist James Moody Before He Performs At The Third Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
| WHAT: On Friday, July 25, at 11:00am a press conference will launch |
| the Third Annual "Lincoln Park Music Festival: A Celebration of |
| Spirit and Dance". The City of Newark and the City Council |
| will honor James Moody with a proclamation and resolution |
| designating July 25, 2008, "James Moody Day". The County of |
| Essex will also present Moody with a proclamation. Broadway |
| star of "The Color Purple", Elisabeth Withers will perform |
| "Moody's Mood For Love" for Moody and his jazz contemporaries. |
| At 12:00pm the Afternoon of Jazz concert will commence. |
| At 2:30pm, the James Moody Quartet featuring Cyrus Chestnut, |
| John Lee and Dennis Mackrel will perform. |
|
WHO: James Moody, Jazz Saxophonist, "Moody's Mood for Love" |
|
M. Teresa Ruiz, Senator, State of New Jersey |
|
Joe DiVincenzo, Essex County Executive, County of Essex |
|
Stefan Pryor, Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, City of |
| Newark |
|
Dana Rone, Councilmember - Central Ward, City of Newark |
|
Hector Ortiz, Director, Greater Newark Convention and Visitors |
|
Bureau |
|
Dan Morgenstern, Director, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers |
|
University |
|
Linwood Oglesby, Executive Director, Newark Arts Council |
|
Mary Puryear, President, Prudential Foundation |
|
Baye Adofo-Wilson, Executive Director, Lincoln Park Coast |
|
Cultural District |
|
Theresa Hooper Marshall, PhD, LPCCD, Board Chair |
|
Amiri Baraka, Host, An Afternoon of Jazz, Third Annual Lincoln
|
| WHEN: Friday, July 25, 2008, 11:00am |
| WHERE: Lincoln Park, Broad Street between Chestnut St. and |
|
Pennington St. |
|
WHY: Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD) produces the |
| Third Annual Lincoln Park Music Festival and other events in |
| anticipation of the launch of the Smithsonian Affiliated Museum |
| of African American Music (MoAAM) in Newark, NJ. LPCCD is a |
| community development corporation with a mission to plan, |
| design and develop a comprehensive arts and cultural district |
| in Lincoln Park in Newark, New Jersey. The LPCCD project is one |
| of the nation's best practices in urban sustainable community |
| development and is developing one of the nation's first urban |
| eco-villages. |
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