Beantown Jazz Fest gets NEA grant

The Nation Endowment for the Arts has bestowed a $17,500 Access to Artistic Excellence grant on Berklee College of Music and JazzBoston Inc. to help fund this year's Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival, Sept. 15-25. The 10th annual BeanTown  will celebrate the music of New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, on the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. "Our goal is to throw a party for the city of Boston that would make New Orleans proud," said festival artistic director Terri Lyne Carrington. Of course, that will only fund a couple of measures of the budget. Last year's fest cost more than $400,000 to put on, but its big outdoor day drew a diverse crowd estimated at 80,000 to Columbus Ave.

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