The Peoria Riverfront Museum will host Rhumboogie on the Plaza on the Museum’s Sun Plaza at 7 pm. The summer music series featuring local and regional jazz artists, inspired by Preston Jackson’s Bronzeville to Harlem: An American Story exhibition, will feature Todd Kelly and the Central Illinois Jazz Orchestra. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for adult members and $7 for students. For more information, visit https://www.peoriariverfrontmuseum.org
Central Illinois Jazz Orchestra, founded in 1998, is a seventeen-piece big band committed to keeping the ‘big jazz’ sound alive in central Illinois. CIJO is made up of professional and semi-professional musicians from the heart of Illinois that include music educators, business professionals, and full time performers. The group plays classic jazz charts from Count Basie, to Stan Keaton, and from Duke Ellington to Maynard Ferguson. The CIJO is fronted by trumpeter and Bradley University’s Todd Kelly. and at this performance, the vocal stylings of the one and only Maggie Sloter.
