Add a little bit of musical enjoyment to your Sunday afternoons this summer with Summer Sundays: Concerts in the Garden. The concerts will be held alternating Sunday afternoons starting June 8 and ending August 17, from 5-6:15 p.m.

This event is free and open to the public. Brought to you by the Friends of Allen Centennial Garden.

July 6

JOHANNES WALLMANN GROUP

Director of Jazz Studies at UW-Madison, pianists Wallmann assembles a stellar quartet to offer up a high energy, imaginative, and infectious performance of original compositions. 

July 20

GERRI DIMAGGIO PROJECT

After last year’s rainout, DiMaggio returns with her sultry mix of Brazilian melodiesand jazz standards, as original as it is enticing. Irresistible music honoring the traditions of Jazz and Latin rhythms, telling stories with tones of sadness and bittersweet joy.

August 3

RYAN MEISEL QUARTET with Susan Hofer

Modern and original jazz steeped in the history of swing, bop, and avant-garde. Vocalist Susan Hofer offers up an instrumental vocal style, matching Meisel’s fiery saxophone.

August 17

LES CORDES EN BLEU

Music inspired by the legendary Django Reinhardt with a love of hot jazz, trad jazz, bebop, straight-ahead jazz, and jazz standards.

Allen Centennial Gardens

620 Babcock Dr. on the University of WI campus, Madison

608/576-2501 or allencentennialgarden.wisc.edu/  for details.