CEDAR FALLS - The Saints Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Red Onion Jazz Babies will be featured in the scaled-back version of the Cedar Basin Jazz Festival.

On Friday and Saturday, bands will perform in Overman Park, on the same bill as Sturgis Falls Celebration performers. The jazz bands also will play sets during the weekend at Bourbon Street Restaurant and the Holiday Inn.

Specific days and times for performances are listedn on page F3. The complete schedule should be listed at www.cedarbasinjazz.org and www.sturgisfalls.org early this week, and in the Courier.

This month's record flooding caused CBJF and Sturgis Falls Celebration organizers to relocate events from city parks on the Cedar River, and to scale back and collaborate on scheduling.

"Our board met Wednesday and voted unanimously on the scaled-back festival. Our priority is with the people who have been impacted by the floods. We will survive. It's more important that the people who need help get it," said Bob Seymour, CBFJ co-president.

Seymour said scheduled bands, sponsors and airlines are already being contacted and arrangements being made for refunds where possible.

The Cedar Basic Jazz Festival has been an annual summer fixture in Cedar Falls since 1978.

"It's the first time since the festival moved from Island Park to Sturgis Park in the 1980s that we've had to vacate the Sturgis Park site. Flooding was the reason it was moved permanently to Sturgis Park," said Judith Harrington, CBJF secretary.

The New Red Onion Jazz Babies will drive from their homebase in Kansas City, Mo. The band first performed at the Cedar Falls festival in 1987, and features Barry Springer, cornet; Steve Patke, clarinet/soprano sax; Dan Strom, trombone; Walter Bryant, piano/tenor horn; Kent Rausch, drums; Peter Kersten, banjo/tenor guitar; and Paul Rodabaugh, tuba.

The band was organized in 1981 by the late cornet player Don "Shotgun" Carlton to play regularly at the nationally famous Bristol Bar and Grill in Kansas City. The Jazz Babies are dedicated to the preservation of traditional-style Dixieland and ragtime jazz.

The Cedar Falls-based Saints Dixieland Jazz Band performs styles from traditional Dixieland and blues to swing music and mainstream jazz. It has been the host band since the Cedar Basin Jazz Festival's inception.

The Saints began in Cedar Falls in 1973 as a neighborhood band, evolving into a successful musical group. Members are Bob Crumley, Tim Crumley, John Shultz, Paul Rider, John Heim, Judd Truax and Bob Dunn.