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The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation is pleased to announce a call for poster design submissions for the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival (August 30th – September 2nd). This call for artists offers professional artists at any stage in their career the opportunity to submit 1 to 2 original poster examples. Must live in the City of...
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The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation celebrates the excellence and opportunity inherent in Michigan’s college and university jazz programs. Where once jazz was viewed as an inappropriate area of study in Colleges and Universities, now jazz degree programs and ensembles are a central part of many music departments nationwide. These programs are led by some of...
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2024 Lineup Announced DETROIT – The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest (and best) free jazz festival, tonight announced this year’s lineup during a free livestream preview event that included live performances from the 2024 Artist-In-Residence Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band, and the One-World Jazz Orchestra, a collaboration between the Berklee Global Jazz Institute...
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For many years, the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation offered a special opportunity for jazz lovers to contribute to the Detroit Jazz Festival, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Donors were known as “Guardians” and those who joined were a proud group, eager to support this cherished musical event which provided VIP hospitality benefits and recognition. We are pleased...
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The One-World Jazz Orchestra, co-led by Danilo Pérez (Founder and Director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute), Marco Pignataro (Managing Director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute), and Chris Collins (Valade Chair in Jazz at Wayne State University and President/Artistic Director of the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation), brings together aspiring artists from Berklee’s Global Institute...
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DESCRIPTION: The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 38 have teamed up to celebrate the opportunity inherent in Michigan’s Theatre- and Music-tech college programs. Music- and Theater-tech programs encompass a curriculum of study, specific to non-performance majors. These skill sets in stagecraft, from carpenters to electricians, from board operators...
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The Detroit Jazz Festival news team sits down with Chris Collins, President & Artistic Director, Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation for some questions on the artist selection process. Click Here for 2026 Open Artist Submission Form Q: Take us through the process as you screen audition applications for the festival. How do you handle the incoming...
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Detroit – The 2023 Detroit Jazz Festival presented by Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe, the world’s largest free jazz festival, continued to attract a livestream global audience of approximately 1.5M listeners/viewers from 23 countries (see graph) during the past Labor Day weekend according to Chris Collins, Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation president and artistic director. The data...
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DETROIT – The Detroit Jazz Festival, the world’s largest (and best) free jazz festival in the world, today announced the Dirty Dog Jazz Café as the presenting sponsor of this year’s Festival to be held in downtown Detroit on Labor Day weekend, Sept. 1 – 4. Celebrating its 15th year, the Dirty Dog Jazz Café’s...
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For over 40 years, the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation has celebrated Detroit’s rich history of jazz music by providing year-round concerts and educational programming, and of course, organizing the world’s largest free Jazz festival, featuring world-class talent, over Labor Day weekend.
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