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The Concord Jazz Festival will feature four distinct women singers in venues across the country in February and March. Dianne Schuur, Oleta Adams, Karrin Allyson and Sara Gazarek will be featured in a series of duets throughout the traveling festival, which is presented by jetBlue Airways.
The dates for the 2005 Concord Jazz Festival are as follows:
Feb. 4: Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, Conn.
Feb. 5: Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, N.J.
Feb. 11: Keswick Theater, Glenside, Pa.
Feb. 12: McCarter Theater, Princeton, N.J.
Feb. 13: Community Theater, Morristown, N.J.
Feb. 16: Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta
March 10: Paramount Theater, Seattle
March 11: Cerrritos Center for the Arts, Cerritos, Calif.
For more information on the fest, go to www.concordjazzfestival.com
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