Asheville Jams Concert Series
Features Local Musicians on the ACT Stage

Asheville Community Theatre is proud to announce the second season of the Asheville Jams concert series, which will bring local musicians to the ACT stage. Since its inception, Asheville Community Theatre has always been a supporter of local talent. Stage productions at ACT have starred local actors for 63 years and the Lobby Gallery has displayed the work of local visual artists for 7 years. Now Asheville Community Theatre is excited to expand that support to showcase local musicians in a concert series.

Asheville's own Firecracker Jazz Band will bring their explosively hot jazz to Asheville Community Theatre for a concert on Sunday, February 8, 2009. The Firecracker Jazz Band is a six-piece ensemble known for sounding great, looking stylish, and getting the energy of the crowd fired up into a frenzy. At clubs, restaurants, and parades all over Western North Carolina, their romping rhythms inspire dancing, stomping, and an all together good time.

The Firecrackers are working the roots of jazz with a youthful vigor that breathes new life into an old genre. The Firecracker Jazz Band plays early "New Orleans" jazz and Dixieland as well as other 1920's and 30's period pop, paying homage to such greats as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis