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Jazz concert set for COA

Written by  Fenceviewer Staff Wednesday, November 02, 2011 at 9:58 am

BAR HARBOR — Saxophone player John Cooper and his John Cooper Quartet will join guitarist Gary Wittner at College of the Atlantic’s Gates Community Center on Monday Nov. 7 in a performance beginning at 7 p.m.

Mike Bennett on drums, and the COA Jazz Trio is set to be the opening act.

Mr. Wittner, who teaches at Bowdoin College and the University of Southern Maine School of Music, has performed around the world for more than 25 years, including as a Fulbright grantee and a jazz ambassador for the U.S. State Department. He is known as a specialist in the life and music of Thelonius Monk, and for his arrangements of blues and folk Americana. Admission is free and open to all. For more information contact Mr. Cooper at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 801-5706.

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Fenceviewer Staff

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