Strollin' South Park Street

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Saturday, July 18, various locations, noon

Get your amble on at this family-friendly, jazz-tastic event, which begins at Villager Mall and then moves to the Urban League Community Room at 2 PM and Madison Police Station at 3:15. But leave the kids at home for the after party at Mason Lounge, where you’ll find BPM Trio and Five Points Jazz Collective at 7.

press release: Produced by the Greater Madison Jazz Consortium, the season’s second Strollin’ event offers a family-friendly 5-1/2 hours of continuous and stylistically-diverse live jazz in the afternoon in and around the Villager Mall at the south end of South Park Street, followed by an “after-party” at north end of the Street, at The Mason Lounge. As always with Strollin’, there’s no cover charge. Here’s the line-up.

One City Early Learning Stage at the Villager Mall (South East Corner of the parking lot, across from McDonald’s): Noon-2:30pm

    Madison Music Foundry Student Jazz Ensemble: Noon-12:30pm

    Fountain of Life’s Rivers of Madison: 12:45-1:45pm

    Black Star Drum Line: 2pm-2:30pm

The Urban League Community Room: 2pm-3:30pm

    Rick Flowers Quartet

 Madison Police Station- South District (outdoor stage, or the community room if weather is bad): 3:15pm-5:30pm

    Mad City Funk 3:15-4:15pm

    Golpe Tierra 4:30pm-5:30pm

 The Mason Lounge: 7-9:30pm

    bpmTrio: 7-8pm

    Five Points Jazz Collective: 8:30pm-9:30pm

Strollin’ South Park Street is made possible by a grant to the Jazz Consortium from the John and Carolyn Peterson Charitable Foundation, by sponsorships from Prime Urban Properties, One City Early Learning Centers, the South Metropolitan Business Association, Sergenian’s Floor Coverings, Uncle Joe’s Shoes and Sportswear, with additional support from media sponsors WORT-FM and Isthmus and from the Urban League of Greater Madison and Lane’s Bakery.