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Calling all volunteers! Volunteer opportunities with Litchfield Jazz

Volunteer opportunities abound! There are so many ways to get involved with Litchfield Jazz.  Volunteering is a great way to have fun, make friends, learn new skills, and even build your resume.  It is a rewarding way to engage with others and lend your skills and talents, helping us carry

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Litchfield Jazz Founder Vita Muir

End of year Appeal is in full swing!

Please consider a 100% tax deductible year end donation to Litchfield Jazz A Message from our Founder As we approach 2020, we are asking you one final time to help Litchfield Jazz have a financially successful season. We hope to persuade you to give generously by considering the following facts. 2019 was

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Litchfield Jazz- 24 Years and Looking Ahead at The Gunnery!

The 24th Litchfield Jazz Festival made a bold move this year, opting for cozy concert confines and an OuterFest, all on the grounds of the new home of Litchfield Jazz Camp, the  Gunnery in Washington, CT. With the Camp’s move there in 2018, to an enthusiastic welcome and great success, 

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OUTERFEST Exhibitor List – Art, Craft, Food and more!

Yes, the mainstage concerts will be indoors this year, but we will still have the outdoor activities you have come to love! On Saturday, July 27 (11am – 5pm) there will be student concerts, exhibitors, and food vendors on the Washington Green – just up the hill from the mainstage

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Gala Will Kick Off LJF July 26 at Judy Black Memorial Park & Gardens

What better way to gear up for a great weekend of jazz than with a wonderful party. When that event gets you together with old and new friends, serves up delicious things to eat, great French wines, excellent music and art, AND helps kids to get a jazz education second

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LJF ARTIST SPOTLIGHT – Mike Stern Band

To a generation of contemporary jazz guitar aficionados, Mike Stern is one of the true greats. The “field” feels that way too!  DownBeat named Mike one of the 75 best guitarists of all time  and Guitar Player dubbed him a “Certified Legend.” A player of remarkable facility whose searing lines

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LJF ARTIST SPOTLIGHT – Carmen Staff Sextet

Goodbye to Childhood – A Tribute to Herbie Hancock’s Speak Like A Child…. Two summers ago I was standing in the lobby at Jazz Camp after a faculty concert chatting with pianist Carmen Staaf. She had recently rejoined the faculty after a 2-year absence for a stint in California at

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Free Activities This Summer – LJF OuterFest

This year for the first time, The Festival will offer activities that are open and free to the public. We are calling this the LJF OuterFest. The LJF OuterFest (Saturday, July 27 11am-5pm) will happen at The First Congregational Church and Green in Washington, CT.  The OuterFest is located just

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Tickets ON SALE NOW!

Tickets  are now on sale for LJF 2019! Things are different this year – all Mainstage concerts will be held indoors in an intimate, air-conditioned hall. While this provides ALL ticket holders the opportunity to experience the music up close, it means that there are a limited number of tickets

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NEW FESTIVAL DESIGN FOR 2019!

“Few sane gamblers back in 1996 would have bet  Litchfield Jazz Festival (LJF) — a then at-risk brainchild of the fearless cultural crusader Vita Muir — would survive infancy to become an annual crown jewel among Connecticut’s premier summer events (Owen McNally, WNPR, ’16).”  Litchfield, the Little Festival that Could, has

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