Jazz at the Ritz will feature TFC Jazz Band and Toccoa Jazz on Friday

The Toccoa Falls Jazz Band and Toccoa Jazz are partnering together for a performance this week at the Historic Ritz Theatre.

According to Ritz Theatre General Manager Tami Mayhugh, on Friday, March 6, the Toccoa Falls Jazz Band and Toccoa Jazz will make you jump, jive, and wail.

The TFC Jazz Band, directed by Yuri Henriques and Toccoa Jazz, a subset of the Toccoa Symphony Orchestra, directed by David Stufft, are once again joining forces to bring their “Jazz at the Ritz” performance to Toccoa.

TFC will be playing a wide-variety of jazz styles and songs selected from a list of great standards including Cole Porter’s “You’d Be Nice to Come Home to,” and “What is This Thing Called Love?” and Duke Ellington’s “In a Mellow Tone,” “Caravan,” and “C-Jam Blues.”

The Toccoa Jazz performance will feature swing favorites including “Jump, Jive, and Wail,” “American Patrol,” “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” and much more.

The show closes with both bands performing together.

Mayhugh says this collaboration is always a crowd favorite.

Jazz at the Ritz is part of the Ritz Theatre’s regular Night at the Ritz concert series.

It is funded, in part, by generous grants received from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Georgia Council for the Arts.

Admission is free for this Night at the Ritz performance.

The public is invited to attend, and no ticket is required.

Again, on Friday, March 6, beginning at 7 p.m. both the Toccoa Falls Jazz Band and Toccoa Jazz will come together for a free performance for Toccoa.

For additional information, contact Mayhugh by calling 706-244-0039.