UT Tyler Office of Marketing and Communications

UT Tyler Jazz Program Hosts Virtual Concert to Benefit East Texas Food Bank

March 3, 2021

Media Contact: Beverley Golden
Senior Director of Media Relations
Marketing and Communications
The University of Texas at Tyler
903.566.7303

The University of Texas at Tyler announced today that its jazz program will hold a virtual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, to raise funds for the East Texas Food Bank.

The concert will be streamed on Facebook and YouTube and feature performances from the Patriot Jazz Ensemble and the Swoop Jazz Collective.

“This semester, the jazz program is working to use jazz as a way to give back to the community,” said Sarah Roberts, DMA, assistant professor of music. “So, we encourage everyone to tune in and help us reach our goal of $500 for the East Texas Food Bank.”

To view the concert, visit facebook.com/uttjazz. To donate to the virtual food drive, visit etfb.fenly.org/drive/uttylerjazz/.

For more information, contact Roberts, sroberts@uttyler.edu.

With a mission to improve educational and healthcare outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. Through its alignment with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with innovative medical research, medical education and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.