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FFor Immediatte Release
CONTACT
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Nancy Herro, Exe
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414--483-3223
PHONE:
milwaukee.orrg | www.c ivicmusicmilw
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EMAIL/WEBSITE: info@civicmusicm
MARD
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FUN AN
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NEFIT CIVIC
C MUSIC
Many of Milwaukee’s
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perfo
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p for a festivee benefit conccert to suppo
ort
Civic Mussic Association of Milwaukkee. MARDI GRAS
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IN MAY
Y! is scheduleed for 7:00 PM
M, Friday, May 19
at Comed
dySportz Milw
waukee, 420 South
S
First Sttreet. Admisssion is $40 in advance and
d $45 at the d
door.
Advanced
d tickets can be purchased
d on the Civicc Music webssite at www.ccivicmusicmilwaukee.org or by
calling Civvic Music at 414/483-3223
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3.
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IN MAY
Y! will be a kn
nock your sockks off kind of benefit concert for Civic M
Music! Musiccians
MARDI GRAS
that will be
b on hand in
nclude pianists Ted Oliver and Mark T
Thierfelder, tthe Stubby C
Chubbz Brasss
Band and
d other friend
ds. Civic Music board mem
mber and Steeinway Piano Gallery owneer Barbara
Wanless said
s ” We enccourage peop
ple to come to
o just sit and listen or get out on the d
dance floor. W
We
are expeccting a good crowd so peo
ople should get
g their tickeets early! “ In
n addition to aall of the music,
CIVIC MUSIC will have a raffle, and ComedySportz Milwaukeee has a full b
bar and menu
u.
Two musiic sets will be
e performed. Stubby Chubbz Brass Baand is a 9 pieece group performing mu
usic
rooted in the New Orle
eans tradition
n. SCBB hails from Milwau
ukee and is w
well known th
hroughout So
outh
Eastern Wisconsin
W
and
d within Wiscconsin’s burge
eoning New Orleans brasss band scenee. They play a mix
of traditio
onal, modern New Orleans and pop tunes you are ssure to recognize.
Ted Olive
er began playying piano att the relatively late age of 15 and by 188 he was a jazzz piano majo
or at
Webster University
U
in St. Louis whe
ere he studied
d theory, perrformance, arrranging and history in bo
oth
jazz and classical
c
piano
o. After bit giigs here and there during his college yyears, Ted became a full time
musician and has been
n one ever since. Gigging in the hyperr-competitivee St. Louis mu
usic scene sixx
nights a week,
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Ted hass performed with the Ralp
ph Butler Ban
nd in St. Louiss and Straight From the Heart
in Phoeniix. And for maany years Ted
d has perform
med in many of the best D
Dueling Piano
os rooms in th
he
country and
a has perfo
ormed with many
m
of the be
est Dueling PPianos perforrmers.
Mark Thie
erfelder has had
h a busy career as a free
elance comm ercial musicians, studio m
musicians,
arranger, composer, educator, mussical director and jazz artisst. He has plaayed in venu
ues throughout
the US , Canada,
C
Asia, South America and the Caaribbean. Hee has been thee house pian
nist at numero
ous 4
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and 5 star properties. Mark currently performs in many different venues, and with various ensembles
in Milwaukee, Chicago and throughout the US, a musical director and guest entertainer for various
cruise lines, shows and productions, and the leader of his own jazz groups for 30 years.
For 98 years, Civic Music has served the Greater Milwaukee area by offering opportunities and
support to young musicians and by honoring their teachers. Through auditions, coaching,
workshops, solo performances and award programs, Civic Music helps our area’s talented young
musicians experience of the joy and the benefits of studying music.
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2625 South Greeley Street l Suite 3A l Milwaukee, WI 53207 414‐483‐3223 l [email protected] l www.civicmusicmilwaukee.org