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Mile High Jazz and Poetry presents “Runoff” Tuesday March 11th | Gina’s Good Life Music and Lounge
March 11, 2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Mile High Jazz Band presents “Runoff”
Big Band Jazz and Poetry
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
The Mile High Jazz Band, singer Jakki Ford, and seven award-winning poets and readers present “Runoff,” an evening of big-band jazz and poetry, on Tuesday, March 11, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., at Gina’s Good Life Music & Lounge, 507 N. Carson Street, inside the Carson Nugget.
The music is free, suggested donation $10. Gina’s is a smoke-free, climate-controlled venue, and has a well-stocked bar and interesting specialty drinks.
“Runoff” features the 17-member band playing swinging songs on the theme of the evening in all its variations. Poets and readers are Rita Geil, Terri Breeden, Ursula Carlson, Wayne Carlson, Krista Lukas, Claire McCully, and Timothy Rhodes. Each poem expresses an aspect of the theme and is followed by a tune that relates to the poem. Several tunes feature Jakki Ford.
Pianist and bandleader David Bugli said, “We’d like to tell you the tunes we will be playing, but that would spoil the fun. The audience can make connections between the poems and the tunes that follow them. You need to be there to experience it.”
Mile High Jazz Band performances and educational activities are supported in part by private donations and memberships, and by grants from Carson City and from the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts. For information about the band and its activities, see milehighjazz.com.
