The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to “Afternoon Jazz,” a concert featuring the Dave Bennett Quartet on Sunday, October 28, at 2:30 p.m. in the Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre, 3277 Sandwich Street.
Admission is $15, with a student rate of $5. Tickets are available at the door or in advance by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212, or online at www.uwindsor.ca/music. Find more information on the music Web site.
To enter the contest, just send your answers to the following three trivia questions, inspired by Sunday’s program, which will feature classic swing-era tunes from Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Woody Herman and some New Orleans Jazz à la Pete Fountain. The winner will be selected at random from all correct responses received by 4 p.m. Thursday, October 25.
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Which member of Sunday’s quartet will play the same instrument as Gene Krupa?
a) Dave Bennett
b) Doug Cobb
c) Kurt Krahnk
d) Tad Weed
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Which swing-era clarinetist led a big band known as “the Thundering Herd?”
a) Benny Goodman
b) Woody Herman
c) Guy Lombardo
d) Artie Shaw
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The jazz standard Stompjn’ at the Savoy honours which institution?
a) the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York
b) the Savoy Hotel in London, England
c) the Savoy Opera House in London, England
d) the Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Contest is open to all readers of the DailyNews. Send an e-mail with your responses to uofwnews@uwindsor.ca. One entry per contestant, please.