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Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival in Kansas City [citation needed] Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival in Sedalia [72] Nebraska. Omaha Blues, Jazz, & Gospel Festival in Omaha. Nevada. Las Vegas City of Lights Jazz Festival in Las Vegas [73] Reno Jazz Festival in Reno [citation needed] New Jersey.
The Monterey Jazz Festival is a nonprofit organization. It has donated its proceeds to musical education since its inception in 1958. The festival's scholarship program started with a $35,000 scholarship fund in 1970. As of 2012, the festival invests $600,000 annually for jazz education.
Newport Jazz Festival. McCoy Tyner and Ravi Coltrane perform at the Newport Jazz Festival on August 13, 2005. The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established the festival in 1954, and she and husband Louis Lorillard financed it for many years.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) organization that presents the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The foundation was formed in 1970 as the festival's nonprofit arm. Festival founders George Wein, Quint Davis and Allison Miner trusted that Jazz Fest would be a success, despite a slow start in ticket sales.
Location (s) Berkeley, California, U.S. Years active. 1967–present. The Berkeley Jazz Festival is held once a year at the outdoors Hearst Greek Theatre on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The theatre overlooks the San Francisco Bay at Hearst & Gayley Road. The festival was started in 1967 by Darlene Chan. [1]
San Francisco, California. Coordinates. 37°47′N 122°25′W. / 37.783°N 122.417°W / 37.783; -122.417. Years active. 1983–present. Website. sfjazz .org. San Francisco Jazz Festival is an annual three-week music festival produced by SFJAZZ, a non-profit organization dedicated to jazz and jazz education.
D. DC Jazz Festival. Denton Arts and Jazz Festival. Detroit International Jazz Festival. DjangoFest.
The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival, the largest west of the Mississippi River, that takes place in April on the campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. In 2007, the festival was awarded the National Medal of Arts , the nation’s most prestigious arts award.