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| | Northrop Jazz Festival to feature Roxanne Stevenson and Chicago State University Jazz Band |
 | | She has worked as a band and choral director, classroom music teacher in several public and private elementary through high schools in Indiana and Illinois, and guest directed many high school and college bands. |
 | | Stevenson is a member of the Women Band Directors National Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the International Association of Jazz Educators, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. In 1999, she was recognized as a saxophonist/educator by the Absolute Winds of Change, the First Annual Tribute to Chicago’s African American Women in Jazz. |
 | | Area high schools performing in this year’s jazz festival include Northrop, Dekalb, Leo, South Side, North Side and Snider, as well as bands traveling to Fort Wayne from Merrillville, Tipton and Elkhart Central. |
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