20th Annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival

From 20th Annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival Website:

See you June 21, 22 & 23, 2018 for the 20th annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival

"Jazz music is America's past and its potentialIt can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art." Wynton Marsalis

The Twin Cities Jazz Festival was created in 1999 to celebrate jazz, making this quintessentially American music available free of charge to all attendees.

The festival continues today, still free and still celebrating a music style that spans all ages, races and lifestyles. Held in Saint Paul since 2009, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival has been credited with helping build the city's vibrant Lowertown district, where some 90,000 jazz-lovers and jazz-curious mingled in and around Mears Park for the 2016 festival.

To ensure that the Twin Cities grows its own up-and-coming jazz musicians, many of the festival's performing artists are also booked for jazz music clinics for as many as 600 students at two local music schools, Walker West Music Academy (for younger students) and McNally Smith College of Music.

Because we want to keep all these offerings free, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization is funded through proceeds from its Winter Jazz Festival (held annually in January), generous corporate sponsorships, grants and individual donations.

2018 marks the festival's 20th year.