Jazz90.1 WGMC-FM and The Ontario Beach Park Program Committee are pleased to announce seven FREE spring, summer and fall jazz and big band concerts to be held at Tropix Nightclub – located at 4775 Lake Ave in Charlotte.

The “Jazz at The Beach” series will include performances by The Greece Jazz Band on Tuesday April 8, The Bill Tiberio Band on Tuesday May 13, Deepak Thettu on June 10, The Dean Keller Soul Jazz Joint on July 8, Paradigm Shift on August 12, The Daryl Parker Quartet on September 9, and Sofrito Latin Jazz Quintet on October 14. All concerts begin at 7 p.m.

About The Band

Bill Tiberio is in his 36th year as an educator. In addition to conducting the Fairport HS Concert Band, Sophomore Band, and jazz program, he is a wind and/or jazz band conductor at the University of Rochester, SUNY Geneseo, and Ithaca College, and directs the Eastman Community Music School- sponsored Educators Wind And Jazz Ensembles. His degrees are in music education from Ithaca College and SUNY Fredonia.

Bill is a frequent guest conductor for honor concert bands and jazz ensembles throughout New York State and has also conducted at SUNY Fredonia, Lawrence University, Wisconsin, and University of South Carolina. In the Spring of 2013, Bill was selected as one of 200 quarterfinalists out of 30,000 applicants in the first ever national Grammy Music Educator Awards.