Preservation Hall Jazz Celebrates It's 50th Anniversary at South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center Sept 25

Celebrate 50 years of traditional New Oleans jazz with none other than the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.  The Preservation Hall Jazz Bank gave a start to great stars such as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and clarinetist George Lewis, to name a few.  Now the Band comes to South Milwaukee, just in time for its 50th anniversary.

The Band is scheduled to play at South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center on Sunday, September 25 starting at 7:30.  Premium, mid-level and obstructed view tickets are available.  Premium tickets run $35 for adults, $28 for seniors 60 and over, $18 for students and $9 if you qualify for free/reduced prices.  Mid-level seats are $30 for adults, $24 for seniors, $15 for students, $8 free/reduced.  Obstructed view seats are $25 for adults, $20 seniors, $13 students, $7 free/reduced.  Purchase your tickets through Ticketmaster.

You'll be dancing in the aisles with Preservation Hall Jazz Band as they celebrate their 50th Anniversary before you know it!

About Preservation Hall Jazz Band

For 50 years, Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been traveling the globe, bringing the joy of traditional New Orleans Jazz to music fans around the world. Since its founding in 1961, Preservation Hall Jazz Band has nurtured and promoted traditional New Orleans Jazz as a relevant and vital indigenous American musical format.

Boasting contemporaries and band-mates of such early jazz pioneers as Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Bunk Johnson, early incarnations of Preservation Hall Jazz Band made familiar names of living legends like brothers Willie and Percy Humphrey, husband and wife Billie and De De Pierce, famed pianist Sweet Emma Barrett and legendary clarinet virtuoso George Lewis. Today's lineup is no less impressive, carrying forward the band's founding mission with a practiced ease.