JAZZ IN THE PARK Sunday, June 10th 7:00 p.m. in Riverside Park Sunday, June 17th 7:00 p.m. Riverside Park Krazy Daze - Downtown Dance Friday, July 13th Dance to your favorite tunes of the Big Band Era! Join us on King Street by Piggy's and the Wine Guyz for a night of dancing! RIVERSIDE JAZZ PARTY Sunday, July 22nd The 4th Annual Riverside Jazz Party will feature Wisonsin's American Idol - Reed Grimm. 7:00 p.m. in Riverside Park

The La Crosse Jazz Orchestra (LJO), directed by Greg Balfany, is Western Wisconsin's only jazz repertory orchestra and was formed in 1972 to perform "Jazz On A Sunday Afternoon" for the Great River Festival of the Arts Summer Concert Series. The band has continued that tradition and during the last decade has assumed a much larger role performing both concert, dance, and festival series throughout the Coulee Region and at Jazz Festivals both locally and elsewhere. The band has backed up such luminaries as Bob Hope, Melissa Manchester, Randy Brecker, Frank Wess, Red Skelton, Red Holloway, Ed Shaughnessy, Bob Mintzer, Curtis Fuller, Kurt Elling, Bobbi Wilson, Sunny Wilkenson, and Clark Terry.