Legendary performer and 15-time Grammy Winner Tony Bennett graced the stage at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in 2009 to the delight of fans that attended that exhilarating performance. This year the singer, who paints under his family name Benedetto, will participate as the official visual artist of the Festival by painting the image to be displayed on the Festival’s annual poster. Bennett’s portrait of his friend and colleague, the late Louis Prima, a New Orleans native, will be reproduced as the 2010 New Orleans Jazz Festival poster in honor of the centennial anniversary of Prima’s birth, which is celebrated in December of this year. Bennett’s silk-screened poster is the first edition in a new generation of poster series for Jazz Festival, “Performance Art: The Musical Artist As Visual Artist,” which will showcase the visual artistry of musical performers.
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