Savannah Music Festival
Wednesday, April 09, 2025 from 12:30pm to 08:45pm
Various Locations in Savannah
Experience a World of Music in One City
Georgia's largest musical arts event and one of the most distinctive cross-genre music festivals in the world.
Schedule of Events:
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm: Noon30: Lakecia Benjamin
To witness a live performance by the alto saxophonist, emcee, and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin is to never forget it. The success of her most recent releases has positioned Benjamin among jazz music’s most celebrated recording artists. In addition to absolute raves in outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian and DownBeat, she received three Grammy nominations for Phoenix, as well as an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Jazz Album. Earlier this year, she was named Alto Saxophonist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. And yet the ever-rising star from Washington Heights remains, at her core, an improviser best experienced in her soul-stirring concerts. Each and every time she hits the bandstand, she takes her repertoire and her wide-ranging audience to sublime new planes. And her message of spiritual uplift, and social and political liberation soars higher still.
Location: Metal Building at Trustees’ Garden
Ticket: $39.00
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6:00 pm - 7:50 pm: Danish String Quartet
The Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet continues to assert their preeminence among the world’s finest string quartets. Celebrated for their “intense blend, extreme dynamic variation (in which they seem glued together), perfect intonation even on harmonics, and constant vitality and flow” (Gramophone) and renowned for the palpable joy they exude in music-making, the Danish String Quartet has become one of today’s most in-demand classical quartets, performing to sold-out concert halls around the world.
Caroline Shaw Entr’acte (2011)
Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Opus 77: III, Andante
Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Major, Opus 83
– INTERMISSION –
Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887
Location: Trinity United Methodist Church
Ticket: $58.00
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7:30 pm - 8:45 pm: Lakecia Benjamin
To witness a live performance by the alto saxophonist, emcee, and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin is to never forget it. The success of her most recent releases has positioned Benjamin among jazz music’s most celebrated recording artists. In addition to absolute raves in outlets like The New York Times, The Guardian and DownBeat, she received three Grammy nominations for Phoenix, as well as an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Jazz Album. Earlier this year, she was named Alto Saxophonist of the Year by the Jazz Journalist Association. And yet the ever-rising star from Washington Heights remains, at her core, an improviser best experienced in her soul-stirring concerts. Each and every time she hits the bandstand, she takes her repertoire and her wide-ranging audience to sublime new planes. And her message of spiritual uplift, and social and political liberation soars higher still.
Location: Metal Building at Trustees’ Garden
Ticket: $47.00
Click here to buy tickets.
