June 11 – 19, 2010 www.rochesterjazz.com Ninth Edition For Immediate Release June 7, 2010 Notice of Press Event - June 15th Rochester One of Only Three Cities in the World to Preview Copenhagen Jazz Festival Experience WHEN & WHERE Tuesday June 15th 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. at Max of Eastman Place Hospitality Tent, adjacent to the restaurant on Jazz Street WHAT The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival is pleased to welcome the Copenhagen Jazz Festival Experience to Rochester. Rochester is one of only three cities in the world – the others being Berlin and London - to be selected to give people a preview of Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Three artists from the Copenhagen Jazz Festival Experience are performing at this year’s Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival: Palle Mikkelborg at Lutheran Church on June 17, Little Red Suitcase at Xerox Auditorium on June 18, and Ibrahim Electronic at Montage on June 19. With close to a hundred venues and close to a thousand concerts over ten days in July, the Festival transforms the Danish capital into a European jazz capital. Americans can check out the festival when it goes “on tour” in the United States with a selection of the best of the Danish jazz scene. The other cities WHO Kenneth Hansen, artistic director of Copenhagen Jazz Festival RSVP Please RSVP to Jean Dalmath at
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