Jazz Star Nick Colionne Headlines Grand Opening of $20M Burnsville MN Performing Arts Center

Chicago, IL. November 24, 2008 By popular demand, jazz guitarist and vocalist Nick Colionne will headline at the Grand Opening of the Burnsville, MN Performing Arts Center on January 24, 2009 in the state-of-the-art 1000 seat theater of this new $20 million dollar multi-function facility.

According to Dan Gustafson, Executive Producer of Art and All That Jazz and one of the driving forces supporting the arts in the city..."Nick was the obvious choice to be our Inaugural Act at the new Burnsville Performing Arts Center after his two hugely successful appearances at our Art and All That Jazz Festivals in 2005 and 2006. Everyone is very excited that he's coming back for this gala event".

Burnsville, located 20 minutes south of Minneapolis/St.Paul and 10 minutes from the Mall of America, has long been focused on the arts, and the new PAC is located in "The Heart of the City" development area of Nicollet Commons Park, an area which features a beautiful prairie-style park as well as retail and residential construction. The focus is on bringing arts and cultural opportunities to the area, and the aforementioned Art and All That Jazz Festival is held annually in and around the Park, drawing thousands from a multi-state area.

In addition to the Inaugural show at the PAC, Colionne will be coming in a day early to give a clinic at The Garage, the nationally acclaimed youth center in Burnsville. Says Colionne: "I am thrilled to be opening this fantastic new Performing Arts Center and even happier to return to Burnsville where I have made so many friends over the last few years performing at their summer events. Now that the new PAC will be bringing live entertainment to the area all year long I hope to return soon....and I am really looking forward to meeting the kids and speaking with them. Youth clinics are a privilege for me to do and I'm delighted to be doing one in Burnsville in association with the opening of this beautiful facility."

Opening for Nick will be the outstanding Four80East, a contemporary jazz group coming from Canada for the occasion. Later in the year East Bay Soul, Joyce Cooling and Mindi Abair will be coming to the PAC, with more acts to be announced.

Website: Burnsville Performing Arts Center

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