New Orleans Jazz Comes to Morristown

National Park Service’s Centennial Jazz Band to Perform Free Concert 

at
Morristown National Historical Park 

7:00 p.m., 

Friday, June 3, 2016

Morristown, NJ – Celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary through this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! As part of its National Park Service (NPS) Centennial tour, the NPS Centennial Band from New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park will perform at Morristown National Historical Park (NHP). The band members will play music never heard before at Morristown NHP, and best yet, the concert is FREE. The jam session begins at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, June 3rd in Morristown NHP’s Washington’s Headquarters Museum, 30 Washington Place, Morristown, New Jersey.

The mission of the Centennial Band is to:

• Enhance opportunities for visitors to experience and appreciate the sights and sounds of early jazz throughout the nation;
  
• Interpret the origins, history, and progression of jazz; and
  
• Promote and assist the education of students in various forms of jazz in order to perpetuate its continued evolution as a true American art form.

The Centennial Band is comprised of active, retired, or former park rangers as well as park volunteers and interns. The band performs traditional New Orleans jazz, selections from the Great American Songbook, and original compositions written by Ranger Jeff Wolin. The original songs can be found on Songs for Junior Rangers Volume 1 and Songs for Junior Rangers, Volume 2: The Centennial Edition, both of which will be for sale in Morristown NHP’s gift shop during the event.