BED Reunion
Rebecca Kilgore, Eddie Erickson, Dan Barrett
Blue Street Jazz Band
The Blue Street Jazz Band has been a major force on the Dixieland jazz circuit for over 30 years. Blue Street began in Fresno in 1983…
Bye Bye Blues Boys Band
They bring a fresh and exhilarating approach to traditional jazz tunes, the players are all individually excellent, and together produce a terrific sound…
Carl Sonny Leyland Trio
Carl Sonny Leyland has the boogie in his bones! Leyland grew up in Southhampton, England, where the rhythm and sounds of boogie-woogie piano captured his imagination…
Cell Block seven
Best watch out…the boys have escaped again. Disguised as musicians and armed with a weird collection of antique musical instruments, our favorite cons are on the loose again!
Crescent Katz
The Crescent Katz’s off-the-cuff, no-rules, no-arrangements style hearkens back to the days when Sherwood “Shakey” Johnson was the king of pizza, and the emperor of fun. You’ll leave every show tappin’ your toes and smelling faintly like pepperoni.
Dave Stuckey’s Hot House Gang
A freewheeling aggregation that stomps and swings the standards (and not-so-standards) of the 1920s & 30s…
Draga’s Dragons
Bob Draga has been a stalwart of this festival since almost the beginning!
Fremont Christian Traditional Jazz Band
The Dixie Dominus Traditional Jazz Bad of Fremont Christian School was formed in 2007 under the direction of Thomas Banuelos…
Gator Nation
Gator Nation Band, formerly Gator Beat, has been playing Dances, Concerts, and Festivals since 1996…
Holland-Coots Jazz Quintet
Exciting, exhilarating, and exhausting!” is probably the best (and most alliterative) way to describe the jazz duo of Holland & Coots…
Holy Crow Jazz Band
Based in Los Angeles, Holy Crow Jazz Band performs old-time jazz and blues from the 1900s throughout the 1930s.
Ivory&Gold®
Praised by The L.A. Jazz Scene as a musical duo that can “draw out the beauty in the rich melodies and play the music…
MONTEREY MARAUDERS
(Thursday Only)
Our 2023 version of the Monterey Marauders features internationally renowned musicians who have never appeared anywhere else on the same stage at the same time. With Dave Stuckey, Dan Barrett, Brandon Au, Justin Au, Clint Baker, Andy Schumm, Carl Sonny Leyland, Sam Rocha, Marilyn Keller, Katie Cavera, Steve Pikal and Gareth Price expect fireworks to fly! This spontaneous, unrehearsed ensemble will be discovering what’s going on at the exact same moment you do: you’ll be amazed at the cohesion and excitement these virtuosi, who have never appeared in this incarnation, will create before your eyes and ears. Suitable for listening, dancing and spooning in a dark corner!
PACIFIC BRASS
The PBB is an Authentic Britsh Style Brass Band Featuring traditional Brass Band Favourites, American Folk Songs, Rags, Marches and Musical Theatre selections.
Reedley River Rats
The Reedley River Rats played their first performance in the spring of 1985 and immediately became the most popular performing group at Reedley High School.
Royal Society Jazz Orchestra
The innovators of the Jazz Age and Swing Era are the group’s inspiration but the Royal Society Jazz Orchestra has a personality…
Sierra Stompers
The Sierra Stompers will debut at the 2023 Monterey festival, to celebrate West Coast Traditional Jazz.
Tom Rigney & Flambeau
Tom Rigney is one of the premier Roots Music fiddle players on the planet…
Warehouse Reunion
“Hey!!! There’s booze in my coffee cup!!…
W3
(Thursday Only)
Enjoy the hit trio We3 featuring Bob Draga, Jeff Barnhart and Danny Coots in a Special One-Night-Only appearance in the intimate Bonsai Room.
Yosemite Jazz Band
The Yosemite Jazz Band is based in the mountain communities bordering Yosemite National Park…
Yve Evans
This trio, each member with stellar resumes, spends hours together and apart in a thoughtful quest to engage their audience…
Special Guests
Clint Baker
Clint Baker (born January 27, 1971, in Mountain View, California) is an American traditional jazz musician performing on cornet, trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, tuba, string bass, and drums.
Jeff Barnhart
Jeff Barnhart is an internationally renowned pianist, vocalist, arranger, bandleader, recording artist, ASCAP composer, educator and entertainer…
Dan Barrett
Born in Pasadena, California, and raised in nearby Costa Mesa, Dan Barrett began playing the trombone at the age of eleven, and the cornet shortly thereafter. In high school he formed his first group, the Back Bay Jazz Band.
Chris Calabrese
Dubbed Mr. Excitement by Sue Kroninger (Big Mama Sue), Chris Calabrese’s primary instrument is the piano — although he also dabbles in soprano sax and a variety of other instruments.
KATIE CAVERA
Katie Cavera has made a name for herself on the West Coast and in Europe playing 20’s and 30’s classic jazz. She is a rhythm guitar specialist in the style of Freddie Green…
Danny Coots
It was 1964 in upstate New York when Danny Coots began playing drums at the tender age of 6 years old. Since then, he has studied with Nick Baffaro, Rich Holly, Alan Koffman …
Bob Draga
Clarinetist Bob Draga is arguably one of the most popular and talented jazz musicians in the country.
Eddie Erickson
His growing reputation in the jazz community soon earned him work and recordings with such luminaries as Rick Fay, Bucky Pizzarelli, Johnny Varro, Dick Hyman…
BRIAN HOLLAND
Brian Holland is an internationally renowned pianist, composer, recording artist, and entertainer who has enjoyed a music career spanning more than 35 years…
Marilyn Keller
Marilyn T. Keller, 2016 Jazz Society of Oregon Hall of Fame Inductee, is a 38-year veteran of music and stage performance in Jazz, Gospel, R&B, Pop, Blues, and theater, nationally and internationally.
Rebecca Kilgore
She regularly performs worldwide at jazz festivals, jazz parties, and on jazz cruises…
Dawn Lambeth
Dawn Lambeth has the rare gift of making a difficult art look easy. Her sweet rhythmic singing makes audiences smile.
Andy Schumm
Andy Schumm is a Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist who specializes in the jazz and popular music styles of the 1920s and 1930s.
Hal Smith
Hal Smith began playing drums in 1963. He heard Ben Pollack, Nick Fatool, Wayne Jones and Fred Higuera in live performance and they are still four of his major influences.