Claire-Ann Williams directs a JFK and Northampton High School Jazz Ensemble, Hotel Northampton Jazz Brunch, 2018
About Us
The Northampton Jazz Festival, founded in 2011, is dedicated to carrying forward our great American music tradition of live jazz for generations to come.
We renewed the popular festival in 2018, with a rich line-up of jazz artists from across the globe and around the region. We initiated the Jazz Artists in the Schools program in partnership with Claire-Ann Williams, Band and General Music Instructor at the JFK Middle School in Florence, MA through a generous donation from The Davis Financial Group. We are bringing professional jazz musicians in to work and play with her jazz band students three times a year. And in 2019, we expanded the program to the Northampton High School as a result of an outpouring of gifts in memory of former Northampton High School student and musician, Elliot Ross.
2018 was such as success, that in 2019, we will follow the same model of staging nearly 20 performances of live jazz ensembles at over a dozen venues over three days throughout downtown Northampton. "Downtown Northampton felt like New Orleans last night!" said one patron. "This is the best thing that's happened to Northampton in 10 years," remarked a Main Street merchant.
We renewed the popular festival in 2018, with a rich line-up of jazz artists from across the globe and around the region. We initiated the Jazz Artists in the Schools program in partnership with Claire-Ann Williams, Band and General Music Instructor at the JFK Middle School in Florence, MA through a generous donation from The Davis Financial Group. We are bringing professional jazz musicians in to work and play with her jazz band students three times a year. And in 2019, we expanded the program to the Northampton High School as a result of an outpouring of gifts in memory of former Northampton High School student and musician, Elliot Ross.
2018 was such as success, that in 2019, we will follow the same model of staging nearly 20 performances of live jazz ensembles at over a dozen venues over three days throughout downtown Northampton. "Downtown Northampton felt like New Orleans last night!" said one patron. "This is the best thing that's happened to Northampton in 10 years," remarked a Main Street merchant.
