Plans for Carson City Jazz and Beyond Music Festival underway
Submitted by Jeff Munson on Mon, 05/12/2014 - 7:21am
Get ready for an exciting summer of music when the Jazz and Beyond Carson City Music Festival takes place, August 1-17. The festival, which began in 2004, is presented by the Mile High Jazz Band Assoc.
Last year, the Jazz and Beyond Festival featured 60 performances and over 100 performers, and organizers hope to match that accomplishment this year. Most performances are presented free to the public. Beyond jazz, the festival included bluegrass, blues, mariachi, and more.
Sunday afternoon concerts on the grounds of the Legislature are expected to attract large crowds, as they did last year. Other events include free concerts at Carson Mall, Comma Courtyard, and other locations around downtown Carson City.
"Jazz and Beyond is a homegrown event that celebrates the talent of our region and relies on many local citizens who donate their time and effort," said committee co-chair David Bugli, President of the Mile High Jazz Band Assoc. "Volunteers, sponsors, and advertisers help us make the event one of the best in the area, and keep most performances admission free."
This summer the Nevada Sesquicentennial Fair will run from July 30 through August 3 in Fuji Park in Carson City. As part of that, the festival organizers are lining up talent for the Fair's Jazz Day, Saturday, August 2. Free concerts will be presented in Fuji Park by Slide Mountain Band, Reno Video Game Symphony-Tantalus, Lynne Colvig Quartet, the Reno Jazz Orchestra, and the St. Christopher Project (a Tom Waits-inspired band).
Other groups scheduled to perform during the Festival are A Little Latin, Back Forty (bluegrass), Beatles Flashback, Buddy Emmer Blues Band, CeCe Gable and the DG Kicks Combo, Impromptu, Jackie Landrum Quartet, the Jazz Guys, Me and Bobby McGee, Mile High Jazz Band, the Millennium Bugs, New West Guitar Trio, No Comprende, Sloe Djinn Fez, and Take This. Several musical performances presented by local restaurants and other venues will also be listed in the Festival schedule. Two paid-admission events are being planned: a "Garden Party" at the Governor's Mansion on Friday, August 1, with the Corky Bennett Trio, and a "Speakeasy Swing Dance" on Saturday, August 9, in the Brewery Arts Center Ballroom with Brass Knuckles. Band times for these performances and others will be posted on the Festival website at JazzCarsonCity.com as they are confirmed.
Free concerts are planned for two Sundays, August 10 and 17, on the Legislative Plaza. Current Festival sponsors are Mile High Jazz Band Assoc., Carson City, For the Love of Jazz, and private donors. The organizers are seeking additional sponsors so they can add free concerts on the Legislative Plaza on August 3 and other events. If you or your business is interested in being a sponsor, or if you seek more general information, please call David Bugli at 775-883-4154.
- Brewery Arts Center
- Carson City
- Afternoon
- arts
- Arts and Entertainment
- Ballroom
- Band
- bluegrass
- blues
- brewery
- brewery arts
- Business
- carson
- center
- City
- Comma Courtyard
- concerts
- dance
- day
- donate
- downtown
- Downtown Carson
- event
- events
- fair
- Free
- FREE Concerts
- Free To the Public
- FRIDAY
- garden
- Guitar
- help
- hope
- information
- Jazz and Beyond
- Jazz and Beyond Festival
- July
- local
- local restaurants
- love
- Mile High Jazz Band
- mountain
- Music
- Music Festival
- Musical
- Nevada
- new
- orchestra
- party
- Performers
- President
- public
- Reno Jazz Orchestra
- restaurants
- run
- saturday
- Schedule
- Sponsors
- summer
- sundays
- Swing
- talent
- the brewery arts center
- The Mile High Jazz Band
- video
- volunteers
- website
- Carson Mall
- Downtown Carson City
- festival
- Fuji Park
- Governor's Mansion
- jazz
- Legislature
- reno
