LAKELAND, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2006) — Florida Southern College and the Festival of Fine Arts present the Preservation Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans. The performance takes place Dec. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Branscomb Auditorium on campus.

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been performing at Preservation Hall in New Orleans’ French Quarter since 1961 and began touring in 1963. Many of the early band members performed with jazz pioneers of the twentieth century such as Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson. The band travels around the world more than 150 days a year and has appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Symphony Hall in Boston, Monterey Jazz Festival in California and the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel.

Tickets are $25. FSC students are admitted free of charge; non-FSC students admitted at half price. For ticket information, please contact the Branscomb Auditorium box office at (863) 680-4296.

About Florida Southern College
Founded in 1885, Florida Southern College is a private, comprehensive, United Methodist college with a liberal arts core. The college maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 38 undergraduate majors and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, and nursing. Florida Southern has a 13:1 student/faculty ratio, provides strong student/faculty mentorship programs, boasts 25 NCAA Division II national championships, and is ranked by U. S. News and World Report as one of the top ten Southern Comprehensive Colleges-Bachelor’s institutions and by the Princeton Review as a “Best Southeastern College.” Located on scenic Lake Hollingsworth, Florida Southern is the home of the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.