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Since the early 1970s, the Bates College Concert Series has offered an attractive mix of music and performance styles.  This year is no exception, as the Series brings classical, international, and jazz performances to campus. All members of the Bates community and the general public are invited to attend.

Led by Statman on clarinet and mandolin, the trio will perform a concert of Chassidic, klezmer, and American roots music. Statman is joined by bassist Jim Whitney and percussionist Larry Eagle.

Visit the Andy Statman Trio website

October 9, 2005, 8:00pm—Olin Concert Hall

An alumnus of the Miles Davis Group, the Duke Ellington Orchestra and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, composer and saxophonist Garrett hears in all music the potential to sustain the freshness and vitality of jazz.

Visit the Kenny Garrett Quartet website

January 6, 2006, 8:00pm—Olin Concert Hall

These world-class musicians, wrote a New Yorker critic, are "remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making . . . but for the joy they take in the act of connection." With a program of Beethoven, Mozart and Shostakovich.

Visit the St. Lawrence String Quartet website

February 4, 2006, 8:00pm—Olin Concert Hall

This up-and-coming young classical guitarist performs music by South American composers including Máximo Diego Pujol, Adolfo Luna, Jorge Morel, Jorge Cardoso, Augustine Barrios and Antonio Lauro.

March 4, 2006, 8:00pm—Olin Concert Hall