North Idaho Briefs Feb. 23, 2016

| February 23, 2016 8:00 PM

Jazz concert Wednesday at CHS

The Coeur d’Alene High School Jazz Band will be joined by Jenny Kellogg and the award-winning Eastern Washington University Concert Jazz Orchestra at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, for an evening of jazz. Together they will perform music by Snarky Puppy, Duke Ellington, Jamey Simmons, and many more classic and contemporary jazz artists.

The performance will take place in Coeur d’Alene High School’s Fahringer Auditorium, 5530 N. Fourth St. It is free, but donations will be accepted at the door.

The concert is presented, in part, by the Idaho Humanities Council and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

To view a live stream of the concert online, visit http://goo.gl/adpLjw

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Nominations sought for open government award

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2016 Max Dalton Open Government Award sponsored by the Idaho Newspaper Foundation.

The award, now in its 18th year, has been given to a citizen or group judged to be an outspoken advocate of openness in either public records or public meetings on the state or local level.

Nominations should be submitted by Friday, March 11, to starnews@frontier.com. Go to www.idnewsfound.org for more information and profiles of previous recipients.