The fourth Charles Mingus Hometown Music Festival will take place on both sides of the US-Mexico border in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora April 20-22, 2012. This will be the 90th anniversary of the birth of jazz great Charles Mingus in Nogales, Arizona. The weekend will begin with a free jazz concert on Friday night in Nogales, Sonora featuring Claudio Roditi, an internationally-known jazz trumpeter at the Teatro Auditorio. Saturday morning at 10 a.m. will be the ground-breaking ceremony for the Mingus Memorial Park at Bejarano and Western.

All day Saturday we will bring a free outdoor festival to the people of southern Arizona featuring high school and college jazz bands with guest artists Dom Moio and Barb Catlin working with the young musicians. That festival will run from 11 to 4 at the Safeway parking lot on Mariposa Road. That evening will be the Big Band Gala Concert at the James K. Clark Performing Arts Center at Nogales High School. This concert will feature the award-winning Tucson Jazz Institute's Ellington Big Band with special guest conductor Sy Johnson and the Big Band Sounds of Green Valley with guest artist Barbara Morrison.

On Sunday, Mingus' 90th birthday, we will hold a Margarita Jazz Brunch with Barb Catlin and Dom Moio with Scott Black at the Esplendor Resort at Rio Rico, 1069 Camino Caralampi. The brunch is from 10 to noon.

Purchase Nogales Jazz Festival Tickets

Other Nogales Jazz Events

Charles Mingus Biography









CHARLES MINGUS HOMETOWN FESTIVAL SPONSORS

U of A Confluence Center Santa Cruz County Attorney's Office Young Audiences Wells Fargo Loma Linda Plaza Arizona Commission on the Arts - ACA Santa Cruz Community Foundation Santa Cruz County School Superintendent IMFOCULTA Bud Light City of Nogales, Sonora Chicago Music Store Oasis Cinemas Nogales Unified School District City of Nogales, AZ Nogales - Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce Super 8 Motel