The Clark College Jazz Festival

Welcome to the Clark College Jazz Festival Web site!
Please join us for the 49th Annual Clark College Jazz Festival, January 27, 28, and 29, 2011.

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As rich as the heritage of Clark College itself, the Clark College Jazz Festival has been host to one of the largest jazz festivals in Southwest Washington for almost 50 years! Held the last weekend in January in Gaiser Hall on the beautiful Clark College campus, the festival attracts over 60 high school vocal and instrumental jazz ensembles for the three day competitive festival. During the day, groups perform to an esteemed panel of adjudicators made up of renowned jazz educators and performers for the privilege of returning to perform in the evening finals competition where they will be ranked for 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place. On the final evening of the festival, one band from the entire festival is selected to receive the coveted Sweepstakes Trophy, a tradition which has been passed down since 1963.

NEW FOR 2011
On Thursday morning we are pleased to announce the addition of the Clark College Invitational Middle School Jazz Ensemble Clinic. To kick off our festival, six local area middle school jazz bands will be invited to perform for each other and receive on-stage comments in a non-competitive format. We are extremely excited with this new addition to the schedule and hope you will join us to hear the future competitors of the festival!

The vision of the Clark College Jazz Festival intends to meet three goals:

• To promote the ideals of jazz music, jazz education, and jazz performance to the Clark College community, the participating high schools, and the local community
• To provide a learning and motivating opportunity to all participating high school jazz students and their directors early in the festival season
• 3. To enhance the education of the students of Clark College by providing the opportunity to experience the administrative and organizational skills required to produce an event of this magnitude

See you in 2011!
Richard Inouye
Jazz Festival Director