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…

Clint Baker’s New Orleans Jazz Band

The band has toured and played festivals in the US and Canada extensively and was voted one of the top five Favorite New (Emerging) Jazz Bands in the 1998 Mississippi Rag Trad Jazz…

Cornet Chop Suey

Chop Suey applies its own exciting style to traditional jazz, swing, blues and “big production” numbers…

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…

Don Neely’s Royal Society Jazz Orchestra

Varierty is their forte. You’ll hear anything from the Cotton Club to Hollywood show tunes with a good dose of humor…

Fast Mama Excitement

Big Mama Sue Kroninger, the warbling washboard thumper, has been performing at this festival since the mid-1980’s ..

Holland/Coots Jazz Quintet

Exciting, exhilarating, and exhausting!” is probably the best (and most alliterative) way to describe the jazz duo of Holland & Coots…

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…

Le Jazz hot Quartet

Le Jazz Hot (the Quartet/Trio of the Hot Club of San Francisco) is an ensemble of accomplished and versatile musicians..

Midiri Brothers

The Midiri Brothers have had a long and celebrated career honing their craft in jazz, big band, swing music, and classical…

Sierra 7

When the HIGH SIERRA JAZZ BAND announced in September 2018 that the band would retire in April 2019, they fully expected that to be the end. Little did they know…

Tom Rigney & Flambeau

Tom Rigney is one of the premier Roots Music fiddle players on the planet…

We Three

(Thursday only)

Yve Evans and Company

This trio, each member with stellar resumes, spends hours together and apart in a thoughtful quest to engage their audience…

Zydeco Flames

Their riveting sound comes from deep musical roots of Louisiana music & Creole culture plus Chicago Rhythm & …

Holy Crow Jazz Band

Bob Draga

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…

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 …