Keeping with our holiday spirit, we are giving away a pair of tickets (two-day passes) to the 2010 NYC Winter Jazz Fest, held on Friday, January 8th and Saturday the 9th at four West Village locations. Get your fill of jazz with over 50 artists playing in two days (see the schedule below, after the break).
1) Follow us on Twitter and tweet this message (if you already follow us, just tweet!):
“Enter to win a pair of tickets to NYC Winter Jazz Fest. Just follow @offManhattan and retweet! http://bit.ly/nycjazz”
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2) Sign up for our email list:
You can do both to be entered twice, and tweet once a day to be entered multiple times and increase your chance of winning. Deadline is December 25th at 12am EST – winners will be chosen at random and announced the next day. Good luck!
NYC Winter Jazz Fest Show Schedule
FRIDAY January 8th
(Le) Poisson Rouge
6:20p Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
7:20p Jamie Leonhart
8:20p ELEW / Eric Lewis
9:20p Nicholas Payton SeXXXtet
Kenny’s Castaways Search & Restore Showcase
6:40p Joel Harrison Sextet
7:40p Briggan Krauss’ Trio Coordinate
8:40p Jeremy Udden’s Plainville
9:40p Matt Wilson Quartet
10:40p Bobby Previte’s New Bump Quartet
11:40p Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music
12:40a Jamie Saft’s Whoopie Pie
1:40a Peter Apfelbaum and the New York Hieroglyphics
Zinc Bar (82 W 3rd St) Revive Da Live Showcase
6p Soul Cycle
7p Ben Williams & Sound Effect
8p Chelsea Baratz Quartet
9p Jaleel Shaw Quartet
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SATURDAY January 9th
(Le) Poisson Rouge
6p TBA
7p Ben Allison
8p Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
9p Jenny Scheinman & Jason Moran
10p Lionel Loueke
11p Vijay Iyer Trio
12a Bitches Brew Revisited
1a Marco Benevento Trio
2a J.Viewz
3a TBA
Sullivan Hall (214 Sullivan St)
7:30p Gretchen Parlato
8:30p Sachal Vasandani
9:30p Dr. Lonnie Smith
10:30p Zim Ngqawana
11:30p Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet
12:30a Chris Dave Trio
1:30a Global Noize
2:30a TBA
Kenny’s Castaways (157 Bleecker St)
6:15p Oran Etkin
7:15p RAAQ
8:15p Linda Oh
9:15p JD Allen Trio
10:15p Mike Reed’s People, Places and Things
11:15p Ken Thomson Slow/Fast
12:15p Mary Halvorson
1:15a Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition
2:15a Tyshawn Sorrey Guitar Trio
Bitter End
5:45p Metta Quintet: Big Drum/Small World
6:45p Baptiste Trotignon
7:45p Amanda Monaco’s Deathblow
8:45p Elliott Sharp’s Terraplane
9:45p The Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace
10:45p Rudder
11:45p Todd Sickafoose Tiny Resistors
12:45a Michael Bellar’s As-Is Ensemble
1:45a The Randy Newman Project
Zinc Bar
6p Emile Parisien
7p Jayme Stone’s Africa to Appalachia
8p Ibrahim Maalouf
9p Somi
Sarah Knapp is a Brooklyn based entrepreneur whose love for the outdoors and community building led her to the October 2013 creation of OutdoorFest. She has a BA in History, is a Wilderness First Responder and a NY state hiking, camp and boating guide. Her proudest achievement to date is reading the Aeneid in Latin. 
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