New Orleans Music Will Jazz Up Wilton Ys Community Celebration

WILTON, Conn. -- The 2013 Wilton Family Y's Community Celebration will have a New Orleans theme and two live bands playing at Rolling Hills Country Club on Saturday, Oct. 19.

Brass is one of the bands that will play at the Wilton Community Celebration on Oct. 19. Photo Credit: *Wilton Family YMCA*

Joe Jenkins

10/05/2013 4:00 a.m.

The theme this year is a lively New Orleans "Jazz It Up in the Big Easy." Brass, a five-piece ensemble from New Haven, will welcome guests with an up-tempo Bourbon Street atmosphere.

Later in the evening, the quartet Pimpinella, a local favorite featured at La Roue Elayne at Cobbs Mill, Redding Roadhouse, Bobby Q’s and North Star, will play dance music until midnight.

A highlight of the evening will be the presentation of Distinguished Citizen Awards to Erin Woolard and the Wilton Education Foundation, who have demonstrated outstanding volunteer service to improve the quality of life in the community.

Wilton Community Celebration's is a dinner dance with live and silent auctions to benefit the Wilton Family Y’s outreach programs.

For more information or to receive an invitation to the celebration, contact Y Associate Development Director Laura Downing at 762-8384 Ext. 273 or ldowning@wiltonymca.org.

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