Longmont Jazz Festival
August 13 – 20
This sounds great already: “Dancing is encouraged”. Bring it on!
From a special Women in Jazz show, to a jazz clinic with Peter Sommer and Art Lande; a jazz Art show to an open Jam Session — Swing, New Orleans-style jazz, Big Band, Brazilian Jazz, Bebop, Dixieland, Avant-garde, Blues, traditional, and mainstream jazz — there’s something for everyone in Longmont at the week-long Jazz Festival.
The “Women in Jazz” presentation on Wednesday, August 16 (3 – 5 PM) sounds especially intriguing. Marguerite Juenemann (vocals), Ellyn Rucker (piano) and Lelah Simon (bass) perform some of the greatest music of two centuries. Their performance will be introduced with a short slide show on fascinating jazz women from the late 1800s through today.

