The Morningside College Jazz Band will perform and participate in a competition during a tour of Nebraska and Kansas.

The Morningside College Jazz Band will perform and participate in a competition during a tour of Nebraska and Kansas.

The tour will take place April 23-26. There will be performances at Westside High School in Omaha, Neb., and at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. The jazz band also will compete in the Wichita Jazz Festival at Wichita State University in Kansas.

The director of the jazz band is Tony Hutchins.

The Morningside College Jazz Band is open to students that play trumpet, trombone, saxophone, trap set, piano, bass or guitar. Membership is through audition and/or recommendation in the fall as soon as classes begin.