$20.00 Single Night Ticket for Featured Concert on Friday or Saturday evening.

$35.00 Two Night Ticket includes Featured Concerts for Friday and Saturday evenings.

All advanced purchased tickets must be picked up at Will Call located at Market Hall (Market & Second streets) from 2:00 to 6:30 pm Friday and 10:00 am to 6:30 pm Saturday.

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Not many towns can boast of having a native son that was invited to perform at the White House by eight presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to George Bush.

Jazz king John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born in Cheraw in 1917. “Dizzy” was a founder of modern jazz, an innovative trumpeter known for his bent horn, bulging cheeks and sense of humor. Gillespie, who was famous around the world, almost always opened his performances with “I'm Dizzy Gillespie from Chee-raw, South Carolina.”

On the 85th anniversary of his birth, a seven-foot bronze statue of Gillespie playing his trademark bent horn was erected on the Cheraw Town Green. The Dizzy Gillespie Home Site Park also celebrates Cheraw's most famous son. The park features modern sculpture, eclectic stainless steel benches and a funky stainless steel fence.

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Jazz Festival Collectibles
Look for South Carolina Jazz Festival collectibles, available for purchase in Cheraw beginning in September. Click here for full details.

2011
Featured Artists

Charlton Singleton Quartet

Kat Williams Trio

Noel Freidline Quintet