Brass and Jazz in the Park Marks Five Years in West Dallas

ArtsBridge Event Honors the New Orleans
Artistic Diaspora to Dallas
20 YEARS SINCE HURRICANE KATRINA

(DALLAS) – The AT&T Performing Arts Center is again taking the arts back into the community with its fifth annual Brass and Jazz in the Park. This free event takes place on Saturday, November 8 from 1-6 p.m. at Mattie Nash-Myrtle Davis Park, 3710 N Hampton Rd. This year the festival will commemorate the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina by honoring the spirit of New Orleans and thanking the Dallas community for the support shown to its residents in 2005.

“I am thrilled the Center is bringing back Brass and Jazz in the Park for year number five,” says Michelle N. Gibson, curator and Grand Marshal. “Curating this experience is always about joy, remembrance, and celebration,”

Gibson is one of many talented artists who left New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago and made Dallas their home. She has since become a beloved fixture in the Dallas arts community.

“This event has become a living, breathing expression of the soul of New Orleans and the strength of the communities who keep that spirit alive — especially as we reflect on the 20 years since Hurricane Katrina.”

Featured performances will include:

• Michelle N. Gibson, Grand Marshal of the New Orleans Original Buckshop
• The TBC Brass Band
• The Thaddeus Ford Band
• Kazunori Tanaka Group
• Terrence Hobdy & Friends
• Bandan Koro African Drum and Dance Ensemble
• Rumberos de Dallas and Dallas Drum Collective
• SMU Dance Jazz Track
• Wild Apache Black Mardi Gras Indians
• The BuckShop Kidz

Brass & Jazz in the Park is presented by the Center’s community arts program, and is produced in partnership with the New Orleans Original BuckShop. The Center’s Festival Series is sponsored by Comerica, Bank of Texas and Raising Cane’s. For more information on Brass & Jazz in the Park and to learn more about other upcoming events, visit attpac.org.