JAMESTOWN – The Bar-room Buzzards will join trombonist Peter Pepke during JazzFest on Friday, April 11 at Jamestown Community College’s Jamestown campus.

Admission to the 7:30 p.m. performance in Scharmann Theatre is $5, general public, $3, area students and senior citizens, and $2, JCC Faculty Student Association members. Tickets can be purchased through JCC’s box office, 338-1187, or online at campusstore.sunyjcc.edu.

The performance is sponsored by the college program committee of JCC’s FSA and the arts, humanities and health sciences division.

Pepke, who began playing with the Von Brothers Circus Band in the 1950s and has played with celebrated Dixieland bands throughout his extensive career, was selected as “Pennsylvania’s Jazz Man of the Year 2006” by the International Musicians’ Union.

The Bar-room Buzzards were originally formed in 1966 by co-leaders Paul Preston and Jim Koteras. The quartet, which continues to entertain audiences in the western New York region, has performed at jazz festivals in New Orleans, San Diego, Savannah, Indianapolis, and Columbus and was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 2002.

The Bar-room Buzzards enjoyed an association with the nationally televised Mark Russell comedy specials for 26 years.

Currently performing in the band are Paul Preston, clarinet and soprano sax; Lewis Custode, trumpet; Warren Stirtzinger, guitar and banjo; and Paul Zapalowski, bass and tuba.