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The fourth annual Glenwood Jazz Festival Monday, September 13, 2010
For the last few years, Chattanooga’s Glenwood neighborhood has celebrated its heritage with the Glenwood Jazz Festival. They’ll continue doing so this year on Saturday, October 2 from 1:00 pm – 10:00 pm with a variety of professionally staged performances complete with expert lighting and sound. This year’s jazz festival is free to the public and will feature local Chattanooga jazz artists as well as artists from Atlanta, Birmingham, and Knoxville.
The Glenwood Jazz Festival is hosted at a safe and secure site just behind the Parkridge Medical Center on Ivy and 5th Street (between Derby and Lyerly Streets) with plenty of free parking available. In addition to professionally staged jazz performances, this year’s Glenwood Jazz Festival will feature several food venders and plenty of room for picnic baskets, coolers, and lawn chairs.
The musical line-up features local favorites such as LaFredrick Thurkill & Co. and Dexter Bell & Friends; return performances by Kelle Jolly from Knoxville and Tim Crump from Calhoun, Georgia; a visit from Latin Jazz artist Sasha from Atlanta; and a final featured performance by jazz trumpeter Melvin Miller.
Glenwood is one of Chattanooga’s oldest neighborhoods and one with a very rich history rooted in the Cherokee exile of 1838. Less than thirty years after the exile, Glenwood became an established neighborhood with a Neighborhood Association finally forming in 1970. Glenwood continued to make history by being the first neighborhood in Chattanooga to use the “Neighborhood Unit” concept, which later became a neighborhood planning standard for many American cities.
The Glenwood Neighborhood Association presents the Jazz Festival as part of their four-year strategic plan developed with Community Impact to help raise awareness of Glenwood as a historical “jewel” in Chattanooga.
