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"Jazz & Beyond: Carson City
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"Jazz!
Carson City" music festival)
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Mile High Jazz Band
External Links
Carson City Symphony
David Bugli website
Carson City Arts &
Culture Coalition
Sacramento Traditional
Jazz
Society (STJS)
The Mile High Jazz Band Association formed in 2001 as a nonprofit corporation
to support the MHJB and its subgroup, the Millennium Bugs (jazz combo), promote
live jazz performance in northern Nevada, educate the public about jazz, and
enrich the cultural life of the community.
Member benefits include mailings, discounts on admissions, and
invitations to special events, plus the satisfaction of helping big-band jazz to thrive!
To book the Mile High Jazz Band (big band)
or Millennium Bugs (jazz combo),
call 775-883-4154.
Mile High Jazz Band Association Updated Mission Statement - Adopted March 4, 2012, by the
Board of Trustees:
Our mission is to enrich the cultural life of our community by promoting live
jazz performance in and around Carson City; enhancing arts education in collaboration
with other organizations and school programs; and supporting our resident big band,
the Mile High Jazz Band, and its affiliated combos.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs "Jazz & Poetry" at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. Join the fun as local poet/readers share their
poems and those of other poets, followed by performances by the Band. This
event's theme is "Animals." General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
The Millennium Bugs
play for a barbeque for the
Mutual of Omaha Bank in Carson City from noon to 2:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Mile High Jazz band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Sunday, June 24, 2012
MJHB Association Annual Meeting
The Mile High Jazz Band Association will be holding its Annual Meeting
on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. at the home of Betty Young. Please
call 775-883-4154 for details.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Saturday, July 14, 2012
The Mile High Jazz Band plays for the opening
ceremonies (possibly 3:00 p.m.) for the American Cancer Society's
Relay for Life event
in Carson City at Carson High School.
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The 2011 "Jazz! Carson City" music festival
ran from July 31 through August.
Plans have the 2012 festival, retitled "Jazz & Beyond: Carson City Music Festival," running
from Aug. 4 to Aug. 19, 2012.
Go to http://JazzCarsonCity.com
for details.
Sat., Aug. 4, 2012
Millennium Bugs play for Ice Cream Social
The Millennium Bugs play for Ice Cream Social for the
Carson City
Historical Society on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012, at the Roberts House Museum,
1207 N. Carson St., Carson City from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. This is on the first day
of the "Jazz & Beyond: Carson City Music Festival." Information about admission to this event
is
pending.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
In a slight change of pace, the Millennium Bugs take the "second Tuesday" slot and
perform at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (The full Mile High Jazz Band can be
heard four days later on Third Street.)
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs on Third Street from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Free event is part of "Jazz & Beyond: Carson City Music Festival."
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
The Millennium Bugs
play for a wedding reception at The Grove at South Creek in Reno. Start time
will be around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Friday, October, 26, 2012
MHJB plays for Battle Born Days USO Dance
Mile High Jazz Band will perform for the Battle Born Days USO Dance Friday,
Oct 26, 2012, at the Carson Nugget. Details are pending.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Mile High Jazz Band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state
legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door,
and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5
additional.
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Most Comma Coffee gigs
are on the second Tuesday of each month from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
General Information
The Mile High Jazz Band, an 18-member "big band" composed of 17 instrumentalists
and a vocalist, began performing in 1997. The group features music in the Count
Basie-Duke Ellington-Woody Herman tradition, as well as more contemporary styles,
selected from a repertoire of over 100 tunes. They play ballads, high-powered
jazz tunes, and dance music arranged by Nestico, Niehaus, Taylor, and other great arrangers.
Mile High Jazz Band performs for community events, fundraisers, dances, receptions,
private parties, and in concert. They have played benefits for New York Firefighters,
Red Cross Disaster Relief, Carson-Tahoe Hospital Foundation, Douglas County Library
Foundation, and the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. They have been featured
in concerts at the Brewery Arts Center and on the Carson City Symphony's "Holiday Treat"
and "Pops Party" concerts. They play monthly at Comma Coffee and collaborate with local
poets in quarterly "Jazz and Poetry" events, alternating poetry readings with related
musical selections. Mile High Jazz Band has performed in Carson City, Reno, Minden,
Fallon, Yerington, Stateline, Incline Village, Virginia City, and Crystal Bay.
In 2002, Mile High Jazz Band won "Best Band" award in Carson City's "Taste of
Downtown." In 2003, American Composers Forum selected Mile High Jazz Band and
Bella Voce women's choir for a national Continental Harmony project. In 2007,
leader David Bugli received the Nevada Governor's Arts Award for Distinguished
Service to the Arts, and the band played for the awards ceremony. Mile High Jazz
Band plays annual benefits with the Carson High Jazz Band to help the high school
band attend the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Also, the Mile High Jazz Band Association
founded and produces or co-produces an annual, multi-day Jazz Festival in Carson City in August.
The band performs around the Carson City area. You can
catch us on most second Tuesdays of each month at Comma Coffee,
across from
the State Legislature Building.
Millennium Bugs
The Millennium Bugs, a jazz combo associated with the Mile High Jazz Band,
play a great variety of jazz styles. They performed for the Carson City
Preservation Coalition/Historical Society, Olympic Torch Relay Ceremony in
Carson City, Carson City Music Club, Westview block party, Camel Race Day in
Virginia City, Carson Nugget showroom, Carson-Tahoe Hospital Foundation, Carson
High Prom, BAC Beer Tasting, weddings, receptions, and parties.
Mile High Jazz Band Association board meetings are held quarterly.
Call 775-883-4154 for details.
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