SLO Jazz Festival - Celebrating jazz music and nurturing the human spirit one event at a time, in San Luis Obispo, CA.

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Welcome to SLO Jazz Festival, an organization bringing quality jazz related events that nuture the human spirit to San Luis Obispo, the Happiest City in America (according to Oprah, 2011). We are planning the 1st Annual SLO International Jazz Festival in September 29-30, 2012 with our Main Stage in Mitchell Park on September 29-30, 2012, and a Salsa Stage in the Mission on Sunday September 30, 2012! This is going to be fun, fun, fun! * Come out to CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN for a FUNdraiser - at CPK in SLO on 876 Marsh Street in San Luis Obispo, CA (located above the Downtown Centre Theatre, near Barnes & Noble). See more details below. * SPONSORS AND MEMBERS - NOW IS THE TIME TO JOIN! WE CAN DO IT WITH YOUR HELP! For our sponsorship letter and details of sponsorship, please see the attached: Sponsorship Letter (PDF download) Sponsorship & Partner Presentation (PDF download) Sponsor & Membership Agreement (PDF download) Note: we host a series of quality concert events to celebrate jazz, raise organization awareness, offer memberships, and build sponsorships for this exciting new organization. Our first "Court Street Summer Jazz" concert series was a smashing success! We are currently working on the 2nd Annual Court Summer Jazz series, as well. In addition, we are also working on a summer jazz workshop. Details forthcoming early 2012! CURRENT SPECIAL EVENTS:

LEAP for JAZZ! Come out to CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN February 29, 2012 for a FUNdraiser - at CPK in SLO on 876 Marsh Street in San Luis Obispo, CA (located above the Downtown Centre Theatre, near Barnes & Noble): Come support SLO Jazz Festival by dining-in, purchasing a gift card, and/or ordering take-out at California Pizza Kitchen on LEAP YEAR - February 29, 2012! 20% of all items ordered, when presented WITH FUNDdraiser PRINTED FORM ONLY, go towards SLO Jazz Festival! Help us bring a jazz festival and raise the quality of cultural events and education in San Luis Obispo - bring friends, order for your office, and even if you can't participate on the day you can purchase a gift card on February 29, 2012, to contribute, just SHOW the FUNdraiser FORM: Click here for a printable PDF flier to hand out to friends and take to businesses near you!
PAST SPECIAL EVENTS:

		Red Skunk Jipzee Swing Band - Sept 17, 2011 at Court Street Summer Jazz, Noon - 3PM!

The Red Skunk Jipzee Swing Band will perform on September 17, 2011 from NOON to 3PM for our last Court Street Summer Jazz concert this year (Court Street is by Sephora and Pottery Barn near Osos St. and Marsh St.). Come discover why the Red Skunks were the SMASH HIT of the Live Oak Festival (by KCBX) this year, as they perform hit songs off their new "Hot and Haunting" CD - hot off the presses! We recommend you get their early and stay for the show! Afterwards, visit the nearby stores, then enjoy dinner at Palazzo Guiseppe.


FUNDRAISER SUCCESS! A packed house for the Bossa Nova Party!

	Our special fundraiser for God's Havens for Children and SLO Jazz Festival SOLD OUT!! Held September 3, 2011 from 9P - 11PM, and billed as a "Bossa Nova Party" with Téka (NewBossa.com) at STAX Wine Bar in Morro Bay, CA, this event established SLO Jazz Festival as an organization that can put together exciting fundraisers with both class and aplomb. We thank everyone who DONATED, TEKA, STAX, Onboard Nautical Events, Dean Sullivan, and Mark Lancaster, and all of our SLO Jazz Festival team for all of your hard work and dedication to host this fine event! (Click here for the full event description.)

Please join with us to not only keep jazz alive but help jazz THRIVE on the Central Coast of California! Click on MEMBERSHIPS to learn about Memberships and Sponsorships for SLO Jazz Festival.

*SLO Jazz Festival Presents:*
		We are excited to present the Court Street Summer Jazz series as our inaugural events for this exciting new organization. Featuring 10 weeks of the Central Coast's finest quality jazz music, come out and enjoy the music on Court Street Terrace by Pottery Barn and Sephora in San Luis Obispo and hear fantastic local musicians perform their craft. While you enjoy the music, make sure to drop by our information table and meet members of our SLO Jazz Festival executive team and learn more about these and future events planned by SLO Jazz Festival to enhance our community and culture, as well as benefit youth through education programs sponsored by SLO Jazz Festival, our members, and our sponsor partners.

(We are grateful for this poster art: John Landon, design by Barry Goyette, and Logo by Purely Pacha.)

We thank our new members, contributing to make a difference! Also, Neal Losey of KCBX-FM90.1/a>, Stanley Naftaly of KCSB-FM91.1, SLO Life Magazine, and Haley Petersen of the Mustang Daily for Interviewing Scott Andrews, Festival Director, and promoting these events for us on the air and in the paper - we appreciate the buzz! Thank you to all the amazing musicians and bands, and especially Téka, for bringing her beautiful music and musicians to SLO, Gio at STAX Wine Bar for hosting, Therese Cron at Copeland Properties for all of her hard work and diligence on Court Street Summer Jazz, John Landon of Landon Art Gallery for his fabulous artistic painting and contribution to the poster art, Barry Goyette, for poster design, Pacha Hornaday, logo creation, Dean Sullivan of Sullivan Studios for graphic design, Kris Finnen, graphic design and banner, PRP Companies, poster and handbills, our new sponsors, Jim Davis, Kevin Costigliolo (Grateful Family), and the many other volunteers and business owners, including Chico's, Ann Taylor, Ian Saude, Palazzo Guiseppe, Sephora, Pottery Barn, Banana Republic, Abercrombie & Fitch, Powell's Sweet Shoppe, Salon Lux/Aveda, Open Air Flowers, and all those who are donating and contributing in whatever way they can who are helping behind the scenes to promote and make these concerts possible!

For memberships and sponsorship package information, please visit our MEMBERSHIPS page.

Note: All images and the SLO Jazz Fest, SLO Summer Jazz Series, SLO Winter Funk Festival, and SLO Jazz Festival are pending trademarks which belong to SLO Jazz Festival. Oprah is a trademark of Harpo Productions. The SLO Jazz Festival is an IRS tax code deduction approved 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, EIN: 27-2625815.

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