Give Local is TOMORROW
Tomorrow, Tuesday April 25, and Wednesday April 26 is the Litchfield Hills Give Local Event. The campaign officially begins tomorrow at 7:00 AM, but early giving has already started, so you may make your gift now if you prefer! Donations of any amount are greatly appreciated and will help us achieve
Volunteer for the Litchfield Jazz Festival!
Volunteer registration is now open for the 22nd annual Litchfield Jazz Festival. This is a fantastic opportunity to get involved with Litchfield Jazz and to be a part of our team. The Jazz Festival would not be possible without our volunteers, YOU make it possible each and every year. Enjoy
Mark Your Calendar – Give Local is Coming to the Litchfield Hills April 25-26
Since it’s first year, Give Local, a 36 hour online giving event hosted by the Connecticut Community Foundation, has infused over $3.2 million dollars into the non-profit community in the Greater Waterbury area! During this online event, every dollar donated will be streched further through matching funds and potential prizes. As the
Opinion: Not Enough Jazz “Instead of scholarship, we get spectacle.”
At the 2016 Jazz Festival, we invited a talented group of jazz musicians from Yale University to play on the Second Stage. One of these young men, Jack Broza Lawrence, published an article last week in a Yale magazine on the status of Jazz Studies at Yale and the university’s rejection of
Jobs and Internships now available for Litchfield Jazz Festival and Jazz Camp!
New summer internships and job openings have been posted for both the Litchfield Jazz Camp and Litchfield Jazz Festival. Come be a part of the team that presents one of the best camps and festivals! Every summer we take pride in working with and training new staff. Many of our
A Touching Sendoff
Over 100 friends and fans joined us on February 5 to say a musical goodbye to Litchfield Performing Arts co-founder Arthur Muir. Art passed away on January 22nd, and LPA has established a jazz camp scholarship fund in his memory. Gifts are still coming in, and the fund now stands
Celebrating the Life of Arthur J. Muir – Co-Founder of Litchfield Performing Arts
Arthur Muir left this world on January 22st just three weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He would have been 84 in May. Before he died at his home in Goshen which he shared with his wife and love of his life, Vita, and his daughter Lindsey and her
Remembering Nat Hentoff (1925-2017)
Influential journalist and jazz critic Nat Hentoff passed away on Saturday January 7. Hentoff wrote for The Village Voice for 50 years. He also write for DownBeat Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post among many others. He was the first jazz critic to be named Jazz Master by the
Get involved in 2017
Now is a great time to start thinking about ways to get involved for 2017. We have many different types of opportunities available. We offer summer internships, sponsorship and advertising opportunities for our business fans, vendor opportunities for artists and chefs, and of course volunteer opportunities abound – many of
