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Sonoma Family Life Magazine

This Rooster Loves Jazz

Jazz-loving Acoustic Rooster wants to win a talent show. So he forms a band with his friends: pianist Duck Ellington, crooner Bee Holiday, and a percussionist pig, Pepe Ernesto Cruz. Such is the beginning of Kwame Alexander’s children’s book Acoustic Rooster, upon which Alexander’s musical, Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie: Starring Indigo Blume, is based. The Kennedy Center has commissioned a national tour of the show, and one of its next stops is the Luther Burbank Center in Santa Rosa. Watch it on April 25 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $21 for adults and $16 for kids, and may be purchased at tinyurl.com/2s3d9akc.