Live-streaming tickets available for $10. In-person tickets are SOLD OUT!  We have two pairs of tickets available for auction on EBay:

To bid on main hall tickets - https://www.ebay.com/itm/125916124092

To bid on Front Row tickets - https://www.ebay.com/itm/125916123899

Sealed Vinyl Albums available too! - https://www.ebay.com/itm/125916126270



TCFA has been awarded a matching grant by the New York State Council of the Arts to renovate, restore, and improve accessibility to our instruction, performance, and exhibition space. To celebrate this opportunity, Peggy Haine and the Lowdown Alligator Jass Band will perform in a one-of-a-kind benefit concert filled with jazz and spectacle on Saturday evening, May 6. All proceeds will go directly to the Capital Campaign Match!

The band started in 1976 as a duo with tuba player Dane Marion and Peggy on piano and vocals, and grew to a seven-piece group, adding one by one Dane’s IC classmate clarinetist Brian Earle, trombonist Dave Davies, drummer Michael Wellen who also played a little trumpet, cornettist Johnny Russo (later replaced by Ithaca College trumpet professor Frank Campos), David Frumkin on violin and banjo. Over the years others stepped in, including bassist Harry Aceto who now joins us on guitar and banjo. Dan May, a graduate student at Cornell in composition relieved Peggy at the piano (so she could concentrate on feather boa manipulation), and after him they were joined by the spectacular jazz pianist Molly MacMillan.