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We bring LIVE MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT and FUN to Edmond, OK, and to YOU!
The Tres Amigos will be announcing their NEXT SEASON, soon
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Get ready for our NEXT Concert Season!
Our 2023-2024 line up will be announced soon!
We'll announce our next season soon!
About Us
The UCO Jazz Lab
The UCO Jazz Lab is an "off-campus" performance and teaching facility at the University of Central Oklahoma, offering jazz and alternative music educational opportunities for students who want to pursue traditional university as well as untraditional collegiate musical studies. The “Tres Amigos” have been supporting these innovative music programs since David Hornbeek (an architect) designed and built the facility in 2002 - by bringing in a guest musical artists 4 to 6 times a year to attract and focus community attention to the school and its facilities.
It seats a maximum of 180 people (160 on the floor + 20 in the balcony) in the venue before bringing down the wrath of our local and university fire marshals. Catered by "Hideaway Pizza" next door, it offers beer, wine, cocktails and food directly off the Hideaway menu. At our concerts we seat a maximum of 6 people around each table on the floor in "cabaret" seating. Every seat in the balcony is along the rail, with no one in front of you.
The Tres Amigos - Mission
Our Mission is to perpetually build our current (and future) scholarship endowments for deserving students in the UCO Jazz Music program. We do this by booking nationally known musicians / artists 4 to 5 times a year who by reputation, attract new patrons that consequently return to the facility (and school). Our first goal is to simply break even at these very special and intimate concerts. If, at the end of each season, there is any profit we donate it all to UCO for student scholarships. The producers do not make one penny. The Tres Amigos have currently established 3 different scholarships whose combined endowment totals are approaching $100,000.
The Tres Amigos is a cadre of like-minded, philanthropic, community focused individuals, currently consisting of 5 members: David Hornbeek (architect), Ray Hibbard (newspaper publisher), Fred Hall (entrepreneur and capital investor), and our two newest "D'Artagnans" - Burns Hargis (past Oklahoma State University President) and Roger Webb (past UCO President).
We do our best to provide each artist with the “Oklahoma Standard” in hospitality, once they are here. As you can see, once performers come and understand our unique relationship with the school, over the last 21 years, many have returned to support the cause.
Past Performers - Artists "Who get Us!"
Since the opening in 2002, the Tres Amigos have successfully brought in the following Past Acts: Lindsey Buckingham, Judy Collins, Boz Scaggs, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Peter Asher, George Winston, Christopher Cross, Ann Hampton Callaway (x3), Maynard Ferguson, the Tierney Sutton Band (x2), Stacey Kent (x4), David Wilcox (x3), Chris Botti (x2), John Pizzarelli (x5), Jane Monheit (x2), Kenny Rankin, Diane Schuur (x3), Jerry Jeff Walker (x2), Guy Clark (x2), Verlon Thompson (x3), Shawn Camp, Django Walker (x3), Steve Tyrell (x7), Jane Monheit (x2), Karrin Allison, Peter Cincotti (x3), Monica Mancini, Roy Rogers & Ray Manzarek (of the Doors), Ben Taylor, Karla Bonoff (x5), JD Souther (x3), and Lou Marini and the Blues Brothers Band.
Previous Tres Amigos Concert Artists - Photo Gallery
Peter Asher
Peter Cincotti - "A Long Way From Home" at the UCO Jazz Lab!
Check out this GREAT 76 second video made by Peter Cincotti after his show here on the Friday before Thanksgiving - November 18th! 40 seconds into this video you will see the 21c Museum Hotel and their Purple Penguin, dinner with the band at Boulevard Steakhouse, the Christmas Lights on Broadway in Automobile Alley and the poster he signed that now hangs on the wall! At 1:07 you will catch a glimpse of Rick Hornbeek, Janet & Dyke Hoppe, and Paula & Gary Schick in the Jazz lab audience!