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
(Thursdayonly)
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 & …
Special Guests
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
Dawn Lambeth
Eddie Erickson
Gary Ryan
Jeff Barnhart
Jeff Barnhart is an internationally renowned pianist, vocalist, arranger, bandleader, recording artist, ASCAP composer, educator and entertainer…
Jerry Krahn
As an acoustic guitar instrumentalist, he brings a rich personal and diverse musical history to the stage that began as a young boy in rural Wisconsin…
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…
