Tanglewood Headliners Announced

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present its annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival Aug. 31–Sept. 2 at the Orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshire Mountains in Lenox, Mass. Headliners for this year’s festival include  Randy Crawford and Joe Sample, Kurt Elling, Ahmad Jamal, the Poncho Sanchez Latin Big Band, Hank Jones, Roberta Gambarini, Jimmy Heath, and Marian McPartland.  All shows will be held in Seiji Ozawa Hall.

Tickets for the concerts are $17–$69.

For more information, visit: www.tanglewoodjazzfestival.org



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