The Love Wins! Benefit Concert a Celebration of Music to Benefit the Ana Márquez-Greene Scholarship Fund at WCSU

The Love Wins!  Benefit Concert" a Celebration of Music to Benefit the Ana Márquez-Greene Scholarship Fund at WCSU will take place this Saturday, December 9 at Veronica Hagman Concert Hall  Visual & Performing Arts Center  Western Connecticut State University (Westside campus, 43 Lake Ave. Extension, Danbury).

The Love Wins! concert will feature Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O with DownBeat and JazzTimes poll-winning drummer Matt Wilson, Paul Sikivie on bass and Jeff Lederer on saxophone, as well as an all-star group featuring Grammy-nominated vocalist René Marie, Grammy Award winner Bill Charlap on piano, Grammy-nominated bassist Rufus Reid and Grammy-nominated saxophonist Jimmy Greene, who is WCSU co-coordinator of Jazz Studies and associate professor of Music.
 
The event is hosted by the WCSU Department of Music. Ticket sales and donations will go to the Ana Grace Márquez-Greene Music Scholarship, an endowed memorial music scholarship for incoming freshmen at WCSU. The scholarship fund was created to honor the memory of Ana Grace Márquez-Greene, daughter of Jimmy Greene and Nelba Márquez-Greene, who lost her life at the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.
 
"Ana was a joyful, musical child and full of life," said Jimmy Greene. "This scholarship is one of the ways we remember her - it helps young musicians who want to study at WestConn. Ana's mom and brother and I look forward to the concert every year."
 
Tickets $35  general admission. Purchase tickets HERE.  
 
$50 VIP reception with musicians before the concert. 
 
A limited number of $20 WCSU student tickets are available with a valid WCSU ID at the VPAC box office. 
 
For more information, contact the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
 
Purchase tickets HERE.
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Submitted by Bethel, CT

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