We have secured our 2024 dates!!
The SJF will happen August 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, 2024!
Pretty excited here !

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Please be aware that submissions for the 2024 SJF has been closed. While our final program is still being planned, we simply have too many submissions to review - over 200 this year! We will have that program ASAP - please consider submitting for the 2025 SJF in December of 2024…send physical packages to the address below; we do not review links and website submissions via email:

SJF
P.O. Box #6
Stowe, Vermont, 05672

Thanks!

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…a quick word about submissions to the festival…and hope that all Artists understand…what we are trying to do here is present music that we would not normally hear (or see) in Stowe and the region. This is difficult while still trying to support Vermont musicians! A challenge to be sure. If you have recently visited Stowe to play at a local venue in the last year it is highly unlikely that we will be booking your group for the MainStage…

communication.conversation.community
joy.art.sharing

always jazz…always free !

Our 2023 Signature Artist’s Statement:

“…When I paint I sometimes begin working with specific objectives in mind , perhaps visualizing a finished piece , striving to transfer that vision onto a blank canvas. Often influenced by my own experiences and perception of nature and the environment ; travel or global politics , the finished products range between tweaks of objective reality and pure abstraction. I always listen to music when I work . Usually Jazz but R&B, hip hop and even pop permeate the studio at times as well. Although I realized that music affected me in a variety of ways, depending on the genre , it was years before I understood the impact it had on the art I was making. The painting for this year’s Stowe Jazz Festival emerged one afternoon while Ahmad Jamal, Wayne Shorter and John Coltrane filled the studio with the sheer joy of their musical complexity leading to my abstraction.”

- Helene Amses

Welcome...summer of 2023 sjf!

Well, now that we have dates, it is time to get it together! We’ll be hitting on August 25/26/27 this summer…and JUST CAN’T WAIT to welcome you all back for our festival…

Schedule of Events

Jazz...it has so many sub-genres, it can be difficult to describe or categorize...but at it's very core is a sense of reaching-out, engagement, and communication.  We'll be presenting nothing but Jazz at our Festival each year; Bebop, Brazilian jazz, Swing, Gypsy jazz, Progressive/electric jazz, Standards, Afro-Cuban jazz, instrumental and vocal artists alike.

truly, ‘JAZZ’ overcomes all barriers, crosses all borders, embraces all…refuses none

Have a look at our SCHEDULE page for details on all this year's great events.  And again, they're all FREE...no tickets, no cover charges.  Come to Stowe, Vermont…and enjoy it all.

Artists

This year, we've invited an amazing group of Artists to Stowe. We'll welcome stellar musicians from Brazil, Cuba, Canada, New York City, Puerto Rico, Peru, Boston, Los Angeles, and from right here in Vermont.

A big part of our mission is to bring world-class Jazz artists from…everywhere…artists that you just wouldn’t usually hear in Stowe and our vicinity. We aim to develop into a Festival that will attract international audiences - and GROW.

Come on up - add your energy. And make sure you bring the kids…remember…its FREE ;)