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Jazz Strut 2021, Pulaski Park, by Julian Parker-Burns
Jazz Strut 2021, Pulaski Park, by Julian Parker-Burns

The Northampton Jazz Festival Promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Northampton Jazz Festival presents, promotes, and preserves the cultural tradition and creative expression of people of color and women. That cultural tradition and creative expression is known as JAZZ.
 
Jazz is the purest of the American art forms, born from black indigenous people of color in America and influenced by the peoples of the African diaspora as well as European classical music. Jazz continues today through the many musicians, composers and listeners who keep it alive as a musical form. And it is continually renewing and advancing from its multicultural roots.
 
Part of the Northampton Jazz Festival’s mission is to keep this great American art form alive by presenting musicians of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds. We also reach out through our social media sites, the internet, and regional press and radio to attract a diverse audience to our musical offerings throughout the year. Through these efforts, our concerts have attracted a diverse audience in terms of age, income, physical ability, and gender status.
 
We are very conscious of the need to reach out to a diverse audience, but Jazz, as an art form, is probably the most diverse in terms of the music as any other musical form. Over the years of our existence, the Northampton Jazz Festival proudly holds diversity, equity, and inclusion as one of our main tenets.

Special Thanks to Our 2022 Lead Sponsors and Grantor

Beveridge Family Foundation logo
TD Bank logo
Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper logo
Hampshire County The Other Side of Massachusetts logo
Gage and Wiley Investments logo
Keiter logo

Western Massachusetts Resources

Hampshire County The Other Side of Massachusetts logo
Northampton.live logo
Greater Northampton Chamber of Commerce logo

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Email us at

info@northamptonjazzfest.org
Northampton Jazz Festival | P.O. Box 631 | Northampton, MA 01061
  • Home
  • Events
    • Jazz Fest Overview
    • Jazz Fest 2022 >
      • Musicians 2022 >
        • Ron Carter Quartet
        • Ashley Pezzotti
        • Freddie Bryant Brazilian Trio
        • Eh La Bas
        • Royal Bopsters
        • Hot Club New York
      • Jazz Strut 2022
      • Jazz Bus Tour of Western Mass
      • Plan Your Trip
    • Jazzy Arts Night Out
  • About
    • About Us
    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • History
    • Team
    • News
    • Gallery
  • Jazz Education
    • Jazz Artists in the Schools
    • In Memory of Elliot Ross
  • Support
    • Support Us
    • Volunteer
    • Sponsors
  • Connect