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Jazz camp auditions

Auditions for this fall’s Don Jamison Heritage School of Music, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation’s free after-school music program, are Thursday, Sept. 18, at 3:30 p.m. at Lusher Charter High School, 5624 Freret St., and Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. in the Cook Fine Arts Center at Dillard University, 2601 Gentilly Blvd.

The Heritage School of Music is open to music students ages 11 to 18 from the metro area. Instruction will be in brass, woodwinds, piano, bass, drums and voice. The school accepts beginners to advanced students. Beginners should have completed at least some instruction on their instruments and should be able to play a major and minor scale, identify notes on a staff and play at least one song. Students should bring their own instruments to the auditions.

Call 504.558.6100 for more information.

Metallica on sale

Tickets go on sale Saturday, Sept. 13 at 10 a.m. for Metallica, playing in-the-round at the New Orleans Arena on Nov. 23 with homegrown hard rock band Down. Tickets are $77.50 for general admission floor tickets, $57.50 for reserved seat balcony tickets, plus service charges.

Tickets available at www.ticketmaster.com and by calling 504.522.5555.

Don’t Panic yet

Georgia jam band Widespread Panic is returning to the UNO Lakefront Arena for the first time since 2002 for two Halloween shows. Local favorites Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews & Orleans Avenue open the Oct. 31 show, Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk the Nov. 1 show. Tickets were scheduled to go on sale today, but promoter Live Nation delayed the on-sale date to Sept. 26 because of Hurricane Gustav. This year, unlike in 2002, fans will not be allowed to camp on the grounds of the Lakefront Arena.

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