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    Sundays in the Park: Jamey Simmons

    Sundays in the Park: Jamey Simmons

    Presented by Cookeville Drama Center and Dogwood Pavilion at Cookeville Performing Arts Center and Dogwood Pavilion

    June 28, 2009

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    Jamey Simmons is an Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. As a jazz trumpet player, Simmons has toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra across the United States, South America, and Japan. He has made appearances with artists as diversified as the Hornheads, the Temptations, Dave Weckl, Buddy DeFranco, Macy Gray, Jason Alexander, New York Voices, and the JazzMn Big Band out of Minneapolis. Simmons has been twice awarded the Best Arranger Award by Downbeat Magazine for the years 2001 and 2002. In September of 2003 Simmons won first price at the Brussels Jazz Orchestra International Composition Contest in Brussels, Belgium for his composition Lock Box. He has written arrangements and compositions that have been performed by the Rochester Chamer Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cedar Avenue Big Band and the Bekchae Wind Band of Daejon Korea.

    This concert series is presented by the Cultural Arts Division of the Department of Leisure Services and the Cookeville Arts Council each Sunday in June at the Dogwood Performance Pavilion in shady Dogwood Park. 


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        Cookeville Performing Arts Center and Dogwood Pavilion

        10 East Broad Street
        Cookeville, TN 38501

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        Tickets: Free Admission

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        Dates:
        June 28, 2009

        Times:
        Sunday 2:00pm

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