2025 Jazz & Beyond Art Contest Wrap-up
Posted Sept. 28, 2025

Mile High Jazz Band Association and the Jazz & Beyond festival organizers are pleased to announce the results of the 2025 Jazz & Beyond art contest. The winning design, "Sights and Sounds," a digital work by Katelyn Lehmann, was used for the festival poster, program cover, and T-shirt.

The artists contributed their original art works, valued at $150 to $800, for a raffle held during the festival, which added to the success of the festival. Winning tickets were drawn on the last day, August 24. Jay Tesik won Katelyn Lehman's winning design. Monique de Haviland, whose band played in the festival, won "Ensemble," a mixed media and acrylic work by Raindog (Jon Felix Clarkson). Lee Fitzgerald won "Play it again Sam," an acrylic by Jennifer Schnabel; and Tom Woodfin won "It is all about the Music!," a digital design by Carol Foldvary-Anderson.

The 23rd annual Jazz & Beyond Music Festival is planned for August 14 to 23, 2026. Annual Jazz & Beyond Festivals are presented by the Mile High Jazz Band Association and are supported by grants from the Carson City Cultural Commission, the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts, the Music Performance Trust Fund, and by private donations. For more information, see milehighjazz.com and jazzcarsoncity.com.

Illustration: Artwork from 2025 Jazz & Beyond festival.

Final concert moved to Mills Park
Posted Aug. 24, 2025

Due to the possibility of rain on the evening of Aug. 24, the final concert with No Comprende has been moved from the Bob McFadden Plaza Stage to the Marv Teixeira Pavilion in Mills Park - BRING LAWN CHAIRS - Food truck might be available.

Jazz & Beyond Entertainment for 2025
Information Current as of August 3, 2025

The planners of the Jazz & Beyond Festival have filled out their list of performers for this year's festival. Besides some of the finest jazz talent the area has to offer, we feature other styles of music and entertainment including country & western, folk, latin music, ragtime, and even cowboy poetry.

Here are the performers for 2025 (in alphabetical order): Alice Jones Jazz, Bella and the Gentleman, Carolyn Dolan Band, Carson Street Ragtime Band, Cherie and John Shipley's "Take This" band, cowboy poets (Larry Marinel & Jo Foster, Nancy Harris McLelland), Dallas Smith & Susan Mazer, Darrell and the Darrell-Licks, Dom & Friends, Doug Sandall and Dale Poune (the Double D's), The Gardnervillains, Jazz Catz, The Jazzettes USA, Kantu Inka Machu Picchu, Lucky Diamond and the Incontinentals, Mile High Jazz Band's Basie Birthday event, Monique & the BeBop Revival, Niall McGuinness' New World Jazz Project, No Comprende, Reno Jazz Orchestra, Reno Jazz Project, Retro Radio Dolls, RoseBud's Dance Band, Sagebrush Rebels, and Tom Stryker's Impromptu.

This Year's Festival Art Work
Posted: Aug. 3, 2025

The Jazz & Beyond festival committee proudly presents the winner of the 2025 Art Contest, a digital artwork called "Sights and Sounds" by Katelyn Lehmann. This artwork appears on some of this year's posters, the printed program cover, and T-shirts. Ms. Lehmann's design was selected from four entries to highlight the 22nd annual Carson City music festival. Katelyn Lehmann is a northern Nevada graphic designer. This is her second win in the Jazz and Beyond poster contest; she also won in 2021. Her goal is to make art that people will appreciate.

Jazz & Beyond Schedule
As of June 21, 2025

Here is the Jazz & Beyond Schedule as of June 21, 2025.

Jazz & Beyond Schedule Available as a PDF
Updated June 21, 2025

The Jazz & Beyond Festival Schedule is available for download as a PDF. Click HERE to download it. This version was last updated June 17, 2025.

Jazz & Beyond 2025 - Poster Art Contest Winner Announced
Media release - June 16, 2025

The Jazz & Beyond festival committee announces that the winner of the 2025 poster, program cover, and T-shirt art contest is Katelyn Lehmann. Her design, "Sights and Sounds," was selected from four entries to highlight the 22nd annual Carson City music festival.

Katelyn Lehmann is a northern Nevada graphic designer. This is her second win in the Jazz and Beyond poster contest; she also won in 2021. Her goal is to make art that people will appreciate.

The original artworks submitted for the contest are individually valued at $150 to $800 and feature different designs in digital, acrylic, and mixed media. Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at each concert, and the winning tickets will be drawn at the closing concert on August 24. The winners need not be present.

The Jazz & Beyond festival will feature twenty-five free concerts at Carson City venues. Opening on Friday, August 15, outdoors at the Governor's Mansion, we welcome the Reno Jazz Orchestra, led by its exciting music director and arranger, Dr. Greg Johnson. This concert is a perfect kick-off for the festival.

The country-themed Day at the Silver Saddle Ranch with music, cowboy poetry, and mule rides will be on Sunday, August 17. Never forgetting Count Basie's birthday - the 121st - the Mile High Jazz Band will perform on Thursday, August 21, at McFadden Plaza Stage. Lucky Diamond and the Incontinentals and Cherie and John Shipley's Take This play on August 22 at the Bliss Mansion; and the festival will close with the dynamic 6-piece Latin-jazz ensemble, No Comprende, on Sunday, August 24.

The full schedule of events on the websites JazzCarsonCity.com and Milehighjazz.com will be updated frequently. Annual Jazz & Beyond Festivals are presented by the Mile High Jazz Band Association and are supported by grants from the Carson City Cultural Commission, the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts, and by private donations.

Photo: Jazz & Beyond Festival art contest winner Katelyn Lehmann and her design for the 2025 Jazz & Beyond Festival poster. Alex Cassimus is passing the check.