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- Yundi Li: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Sacred And Profane:
The Blind Boys of Alabama
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- Sensations I: 12:30 PM buy tickets performance details
- Jennifer Larmore: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Cajun Dance Party with
Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys: 6:30 PM, 8:30 PM, 10:30 PM
buy tickets performance details - An Evening with Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt: 7:30 PM buy tickets performance details
- Idyllic Enchantment: Nrityagram Dance Ensemble: 8:30 PM buy tickets performance details
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- Daniel Hope & Sebastian Knauer: 3:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- Masters of Persian Music: Ali Akbar Moradi: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Brazilian Magic:
Hamilton de Holanda Quintet: 8:00 PM buy tickets performance details -
Blues in the Night featuring Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin, Nappy Brown, Adolphus Bell: 8:30 PM, 10:30 PM
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Silent Film Classics 1:
Buster Keaton's
"Sherlock, Jr. and
"The Scarecrow": 3:00 PM buy tickets performance details - Sensations II: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
& Other Story Books: 11:00 AM buy tickets performance details -
Silent Film Classics 1:
Buster Keaton's
"Sherlock, Jr." and
"The Scarecrow": 12:30 PM buy tickets performance details - Episode 4: The Festival is Underway: 3:01 PM buy tickets performance details
- Jonathan Biss: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Silent Film Classics 2:
Alfred Hitchcock's
"Blackmail": 7:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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- Musical Chairs: 11:00 AM buy tickets performance details
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Silent Film Classics 2:
Alfred Hitchcock's
"Blackmail": 12:30 PM buy tickets performance details - Sensations III: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Silent Film Classics 1:
Buster Keaton's
"Sherlock, Jr." and
"The Scarecrow": 7:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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The American Traditions Competition Quarterfinals: 11:00 AM, 2:30 PM
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She Said/She Says:
The History And Status Of
Women In Jazz: 11:00 AM buy tickets performance details - Blues Came from Georgia: Sean Costello/Eric Culberson: 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- Emerson String Quartet with special guest Wu Han: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- An Evening With Stewart Copeland: 8:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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The American Traditions Competition Quarterfinals: 11:00 AM, 2:30 PM
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The American Traditions Competition Quarterfinals: 11:00 AM, 2:30 PM
buy tickets performance details - Everybody's in the Band: 11:00 AM buy tickets performance details
- Louisiana Dancehall Soiree: Red Stick Ramblers: 6:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 10:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Sensations IV:
Daniel Hope and Friends with
Emerson String Quartet: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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The American Traditions Competition Quarterfinals: 11:00 AM, 2:30 PM
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American Traditions Competition Semifinal Rounds: 11:00 AM, 2:30PM
buy tickets performance details - The Pied Piper: 11:00 AM buy tickets performance details
- Audra McDonald: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- Flamenco Soul: Pitingo: 8:00 PM, 10:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- An Evening With Ricky Skaggs And Bruce Hornsby: 8:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- Modern Skirts: 11:59 PM buy tickets performance details
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American Traditions Competition Semifinal Rounds: 11:00 AM, 2:30PM
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- Fa So La Workshop: 10:00 AM buy tickets performance details
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Sensations V:
with Wu Han: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details - The American Traditions Competition Finals: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- American Bluegrass Dream: Cherryholmes: 8:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- Latin Dance Party: Tiempo Libre: 8:30 PM, 10:30PM buy tickets performance details
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Afro-Pop Queen: Angelique Kidjo
with Ana Moura (Opening Act): 8:30 PM buy tickets performance details
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- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Robert Spano, featuring Garrick Ohlsson: 3:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Carolina Chocolate Drops: 5:30 PM, 7:30PM
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- Sweet Singing Harmony Harmoneers: 12:30 PM buy tickets performance details
- Episode 5: Closing Weekend: 4:25 PM buy tickets performance details
- Sensations VI: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- Scrapomatic with Kristina Train: 7:30 PM buy tickets performance details
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Boogie Woogie Piano:
Carl "Sonny" Leyland: 12:30 PM buy tickets performance details - Beaux Arts Trio's Final Tour: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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Piano Showdown: 6:30 PM, 8:30 PM
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- Andreas Oberg Quartet: 12:30 PM buy tickets performance details
- Swinging Around the World: 5:30 PM, 7:30 PM, 9:30 PM buy tickets performance details
- Swing Central High School Jazz Band Competition: 7:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- The World Of Slide Guitar: 7:30 PM buy tickets performance details
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- Swing Central in City Market: 11:00 AM buy tickets performance details
- West Coast Jazz Meets Southern Swing: 5:30 PM, 7:30 PM, 9:30 PM buy tickets performance details
- Yu Kosuge: 6:00 PM buy tickets performance details
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- Swing Central in City Market: 11:00 AM buy tickets performance details
- The One and Only Wycliffe Gordon: Swing Central Finale: 7:00 PM buy tickets performance details
- Abigail Washburn & The Sparrow Quartet featuring Béla Fleck with Casey Driessen & Ben Sollee: 8:00 PM buy tickets performance details
Our Mission
The Savannah Music Festival is dedicated to presenting a world-class celebration of the musical arts by creating timeless and adventurous productions that stimulate arts education, foster economic growth, and unite artists and audiences in Georgia's first city.
For nearly three weeks in late March and early April, the SMF produces over 100 programs for adults and children in theatres, schools and historic and intimate venues. Featuring an array of musical performances that includes dance, film and narrative programs, more than 400 classical, jazz, blues, bluegrass, and international artists make SMF a distinctive destination event and one of the highlights of springtime in Savannah.
SMF presents acclaimed artists from a variety of genres. Past artists have included: Frederica von Stade, Ricky Skaggs, Richard Goode, Wayne Shorter, Emmylou Harris, Les Ballets Africaines, The Blind Boys of Alabama; Deborah Voigt, Buddy Guy, Eddie Palmieri, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Del McCoury, Marcus Roberts, Andre Watts, Joshua Redman & the San Francisco Jazz Collective, Hubert Sumlin, The Codetalkers, Peru Negro, Dick Hyman, Derek Trucks Band, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Rockin' Dopsie, Emerson String Quartet, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Carey Bell, The Tallis Scholars, The Heath Brothers, Hamilton de Holanda, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Buddy Guy, Toots Thielemans, Bill Charlap and many others.
SMF stages originally conceived, one-time only productions, including numerous premieres, commissioned works and ongoing series. During the past five years, these have included: "Welcome to Georgia Town" and "Savannah Trails" by Wycliffe Gordon; "Celeste" by Stewart Copeland; "An Evening with Beethoven" featuring Mia Farrow and the Beaux Arts Trio; Hank Jones Trio + Symphony Orchestra; "East Meets West" featuring Daniel Hope, Derek Trucks, Gaurav Mazumdar and Ayaan & Amaan Ali Bangash; "Mando Madness" with David Grisman, Sam Bush, Mike Marshall, Don Stiernberg & Tony Williamson; George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" and "Gershwin for Lovers;" "Yamacraw" by James P. Johnson; "Jazz Guitar Heaven" with Bucky Pizzarelli, Frank Vignola, Howard Alden, Martin Taylor & Jimmy Bruno; "Masters of Mexican Music;" and many others. Commissioned works have included: "Transfigured Night," a new ballet by Alex Ossadnik; "Concerto for Hope," a violin concerto by Roxanna Panufnik; "In the Spirit of Place," a music and dance work for full gamelan orchestra by Gamelan Cudamani; "Trio" by Uri Caine, written for the Beaux Arts Trio; and "Moody's Groove" by Jimmy Heath, written for Savannah native James Moody's 80th birthday hometown celebration.
The Festival remains committed to producing a superlative musical event that advances the public's understanding and appreciation of music through a variety of educational initiatives. Leading up to and continuing throughout the Festival, the SMF produces free educational programs for school children in the surrounding eight-county area (including lower South Carolina) in an effort to help teachers and students gain a more profound understanding of the musical arts. During the 2007 Festival, more than 20,000 youth will participate in our programs. Additionally, our 2nd annual High School Jazz Band Workshop will be held for ten outstanding bands from across the Southeast, and the students will be mentored by several of the finest jazz musicians of our time.
The Savannah Music Festival regularly collaborates with organizations including the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah Tour of Homes and Gardens, The King-Tisdell Cottage/Beach Institute, The Savannah Garden Exposition, and a variety of the city's houses of worship, all of which have helped to draw record numbers of locals and tourists alike.