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The UCF Percussion Ensemble will perform at 4:30 p.m. July 28, and the UCF Jazz Professors combo will perform at 8:30 p.m. July 29 with two nationally known jazz clarinetists, Ken Peplowski and Allan Vach茅. Vach茅 lives in the Orlando area.
Tickets for these and several other concerts listed at are available at the door. General admission tickets are $15.
The ICA also will present a free outreach concert at 3 p.m. July 29 at Dr. Phillips High School. Musicians from the conference will repeat their performances, and there will be two pieces dedicated to the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.