Temecula’s 11th annual jazz festival dedicated to longtime pianist

Pianist, Keith Droste. Valley News/Courtesy photo
In March, the Old Town Temecula Community Theater will be celebrating its 11th annual jazz festival. A variety of Inland Empire musicians will come together for a day devoted to jazz. Before the afternoon concert on the main stage begins, the Jimmie Dykes group will play music in the theater courtyard at 1 p.m. Audience members can listen to music while socializing before the stage doors open at 2 p.m. Among the musicians returning this year is Jeff Stover on bass. Stover was born in Riverside in 1960 and he studied music at California State University, Los Angeles.“I then lived in Palm Springs for 40 years, where I was lucky to play with many of the finest musicians in the Inland Empire area,” he said. “I got to play shows and concerts for many great acts that came through the a
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