41st annual jazz festival starts Thursday at Ramada Inn Limited

Get out the dancing shoes and hit the way-back button, it’s time for The 41st Annual Coon Sanders Nighthawks Fans’ Bash, a Dixeland and early jazz festival that holds court at The Ramada Inn Limited (just north of I-64, at Exit 11), Thursday, May 15 through Saturday, May 17.

Named after Kansas City jazz pioneers, Carleton Coon and Joe Sanders, the jazz fest has a wide variety of events from a free Thursday night jam session that kicks off the festival, to the scoring of a silent Buster Keaton movie by national-award winning pianist Ethan Uslan at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

 Cost is $130 for all events and meals or $55 per night for meal and entertainment.

Entertainment only is $30 nightly. Saturday breakfast with the 1937 Flood is $15 while the Saturday afternoon tea dance is $10.

For more info, e-mail Dale Jones at coonsander@msn.com or call (304) 633-5241.