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[Broadway, 2011]
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[Broadway, 2010]
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Awards and Nominations


winner
Drama Desk Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Music in a Play

Branford Marsalis, Fences

Tony Awards - 2010 - Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre

Branford Marsalis, Fences

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Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation Presents 2025 SATCHMO Award and Lifetime Achievement Award

The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation (LAEF) celebrated its annual awards honoring jazz education and music advocacy during Jazz Congress, a two-day series of workshops, panels and networking opportunities.
Time For Three To Make Wharton Center Debut This Month

Time For Three will make their Wharton Center debut this month. Also featured in this performance are student musicians from Okemos High School, directed by Justin Valla.
Scottsdale Arts Announces Diverse Spring Concert Lineup

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has announced a diverse lineup of spring concerts featuring Americana and jazz to classical and Broadway. Season to begin on January 22.
Queens College Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day On January 19

Queens College annual celebration of the life and legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will feature a recognition ceremony, keynote address, guest speakers, a musical performance, and the premiere of the latest episode in the college's docuseries marking 60 years this spring when King spoke at QC.
Branford Marsalis Quartet Comes to Queens

Kupferberg Center for the Arts (KCA) and Queens College will present a special Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration featuring the Branford Marsalis Quartet on Sunday, January 19, 2025, at Colden Auditorium.
Jason Moran Will Perform Duke Ellington at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center

Jason Moran will celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Duke Ellington’s birth next month in a solo piano concert at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Learn more here!
KIMBERLY AKIMBO, THE WIZ And More Come To The Smith Center In 2025

From fresh Broadway musicals and legendary headliners to insightful speakers and jazz masters, The Smith Center's 2025 calendar offers diverse options for everyone. Get full details for the season below!
Time for Three To Perform Live at Wharton Center

Popular Grammy and Emmy-winning ensemble Time for Three's captivating sound merges Americana, classical, pop, and singer-songwriter styles have resonated with audiences globally.
Time for Three to Perform Live at Wharton Center This Winter

Popular Grammy and Emmy-winning ensemble Time for Three will perform at Wharton Center in January. TF3 rewrites the rules of music in their Wharton Center debut. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Branford Marsalis Quartet And More Announced At The Royal Conservatory In February

February concerts have been announced at The Royal Conservatory, including Piaf! The Show, which returns after a sold out run in 2015, TD Jazz Concerts featuring a sold-out evening with the Branford Marsalis Quartet, and more.
Kurt Elling Releases Rendition of 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring'

Multi-GRAMMY award-winning vocalist Kurt Elling has released an a cappella interpretation of Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,” featuring celebrated vocal group The Swingles. Listen to it now!
Patrick Davis Releases New Studio Album 'Carolina When I Die'

Patrick Davis has released his latest studio album, Carolina When I Die. The album reflects both his personal journey and the universal bond we share with the places we call home. Listen to it now.
Tonya Lewis Lee, Mathew Knowles and Les Coney Join Producing Team of A WONDERFUL WORLD

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical has added producers Tonya Lewis Lee, Mathew and Gena Avery Knowles, and Les Coney to the producing team.
Photos: A WONDERFUL WORLD Cast on the Opening Night Red Carpet

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical is officially open on Broadway at Studio 54. A Wonderful World stars Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart as Louis Armstrong. See photos of the cast on the red carpet at opening night here! 
Review Roundup: A WONDERFUL WORLD Opens On Broadway

Tony Award-winning actor James Monroe Iglehart steps into the shoes of the one and only Louis Armstrong in the new Broadway musical, A Wonderful World, now playing on Broadway! See what critics thought Broadway's newest biomusical!
A JAZZY CHRISTMAS With TRIO IN CAHOOTS to Play Agrovino Wine Bar Lofou in December

Trio In Cahoots will perform songs from a wide range of repertoire, including jazz standards from the American Songbook, and songs from the pop/country genre – always with improvisational intentions, adapted to the cozy vibe of the acoustic trio.
Video: A WONDERFUL WORLD Cast Performs 'When You're Smiling' on Good Morning America

James Monroe Iglehart, DeWitt Fleming Jr., and the company of A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical visited Good Morning America on Thursday. For their first TV performance, the company sang the classic number When You're Smiling. Watch the performance now!
Photos: James Monroe Iglehart Is Louis Armstrong in A WONDERFUL WORLD First Look

A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical has released First Look photos of Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart and company on Broadway. The production is now running at Studio 54, prior to an opening night on Monday, November 11, 2024.
Video: Watch A WONDERFUL WORLD's First Broadway Curtain Call

Watch as the cast of A Wonderful World starring James Monroe Iglehart as Louis Armstrong, Darlesia Cearcy as Lucille Wilson, Kim Exum as Alpha Smith, Dionne Figgins as Daisy Parker, and Jennie Harney-Fleming as Lil Hardin. Watch the curtain call video now!
Music at Kohl Mansion Sets 42nd Annual Chamber Music Season

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “simply the best,” the Quartet will perform an outstanding program of musical works by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Sibelius, and the local premier of a work by Jamaican-born composer, Eleanor Alberga.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What awards has Branford Marsalis been nominated for?

Outstanding Music in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Fences and Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony Awards) for Fences.

What awards has Branford Marsalis won?

Branford Marsalis has won the Outstanding Music in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for his work on Fences.

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