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The Hudson Valley Jazz Festival operates a little different.  We’re not  just a single stage event.  The festival is  held in multiple locations, clubs, cafes, restaurants, performing arts centers and parks.

The Hudson Valley Jazz Festival celebrates it’s 14th season Aug 9-13. The purpose of this series is to feature Hudson Valley NY jazz artists leading groups. Who they hire is up to them.  We may also feature others from time to time.

Performances take place  in different settings. Clubs, restaurants, non-profit organizations, town concert series, galleries, arts centers and others are often the venues.

While we’ve hosted Wallace Roney, Arturo O’Farrill, Buster Williams, John Abercrombie, Dave Liebman, Lenny White, and The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, it is not our goal to just present “the big names”.

The participating venues are often producers of the individual shows.  In that regard, they hire who they’d prefer with guidance from the festival.  Musicians also create a concert by taking on the role of producer and performer in one.  It’s a collaborative.

We create oversight to see that there aren’t multiple bookings for the same show and establish a schedule that will maximize turnout.

Ideally each season would have varied and new programming and we’d include everyone.  No doubt there are terrific Hudson Valley Jazz artists who may not be listed.   We hope to change that and have the biggest umbrella possible. Thanks for coming.