Call for Artists - Two Jazz & Beyond Opportunities
Art Contest for Poster and Program Cover
Open Studios Tour Entries
Media Release: May 9, 2022

The 2022 Jazz & Beyond Music and Art Festival is calling artists for two opportunities. First is an art contest for poster and program design. Second is participation in the fourth annual Carson City Open Studios Tour in August. Entry deadline for both is May 17, 2022.

For the art contest, Nevada artists, including teachers and students, are eligible to submit entries. The winning design will be used to promote the Jazz & Beyond festival, will be featured on the festival poster, program cover, and potentially on a T-shirt, and the winner will receive a cash award of $100. Entry forms are available for download at milehighjazz.com/artcontest2022.pdf. Participation is free and artists may submit up to three entries. For more information, email info@milehighjazz.com.

The Carson City Open Studios Tour will include one-day and two-day options. Visual art from painting, sculpture, and 3D art to jewelry and photography, will be exhibited and demonstrated in about a dozen individual and shared studio spaces. Each artist selected will also have one piece exhibited in the month-long NAA Summer Show.

The one-day tour will be Friday, August 19, 12 to 5 p.m., at the Bliss Mansion and the NAA (Nevada Artists Association) Gallery. The two-day tour will be Saturday and Sunday, August 20 and 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at multiple studios throughout Carson City. Artists may participate in either the one-day tour, the two-day tour, or both. Some locations will include live music. Application forms are available at http://milehighjazz.com/arttour2022.htm. For more information, contact ccopenstudio@gmail.com.

Photo: Recent Jazz & Beyond Poster and T-shirt Art contest winners.

Jazz & Beyond Music and Art Festival is Coming
Aug. 5-21, 2022
(Posted: 6/10/2022)

The 19th Annual Jazz & Beyond Music & Art Festival will be August 5 to August 21, 2022. Events will take place around downtown Carson City, including McFadden Plaza and the Capital Amphitheater. Various performing artists are being lined up, including the Reno Jazz Orchestra, Mile High Jazz Band, The Red Tango, Niall McGuinness and the New World Jazz Project, Take This, and trumpeter Josh Reed, who will be doing a lecture-presentation at the Nevada State Museum on August 18.

As part of Jazz & Beyond, the Carson City Open Studios Tour will include visual art from painting, sculpture, and 3D art to jewelry and photography. These art forms will be exhibited and demonstrated in about a dozen individual and shared studio spaces. Each of the selected artists will also have one piece exhibited in the month-long NAA Summer Show. This year the Open Studios Tour will include one-day and two-day options. The one-day tour will be Friday, August 19, 12 to 5 p.m., at the Bliss Mansion and the NAA (Nevada Artists Association) Gallery. The two-day tour will be Saturday and Sunday, August 20 and 21, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at multiple studios throughout Carson City. Artists may participate in either the one-day tour, the two-day tour, or both. Some locations will include live music. For more information, contact ccopenstudio@gmail.com.

David & Friends Perform in Mills Park Before Free Movie
to Promote Jazz & Beyond Festival
Friday, July 29, 2022

The group, David and Friends, will be performing on Friday, July 29, from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m. before a free summer outdoor family movie night in Mills Park. They are promoting the Jazz & Beyond Music and Art Festival, which starts with a free event at the Governor's Mansion on Friday, August 5, featuring the Reno Jazz Orchestra. David and Friends is made up of Jake Xie on sax, Bill Melendres on trumpet, David Bugli on keyboard, Frank Iannetta on bass, and Kevin Milburn on drums.

The Carson City Classic Cinema Club, Garrett Lepire, and Carson City Parks, Recreation and Open Space are once again teaming up to present a schedule of free summer outdoor family movie nights at Mills Park. Following the jazz presentation on July 29, the audience will get to view "Soul," a 2020 computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios that won two Academy Awards.

For more information on Carson City Classic Cinema Club, see https://ccclassiccinema.org/. An article about this event is posted on CarsonNow.org at https://www.carsonnow.org/reader-content/07/27/2022/carson-city-classic-cinema-presents-soul-2020.

Jazz & Beyond Festival Planned for Aug. 11-21, 2023
Posted: Jan. 28, 2023

The Jazz & Beyond Planning Committee met recently and are working on plans for the twentieth Jazz & Beyond festival. While many details remain to be decided, the committee has outlined plans for the festival to begin on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, and end on the 119th birthday of William "Count" Basie, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. The committee is looking forward to bringing back several of the exciting acts from past years. Details about the festival will be posted on the festival's website at jazzcarsoncity.com.

Jazz & Beyond 2023 Ð Poster Art Contest Winner Announced
Media release: June 4, 2003

The Jazz & Beyond festival committee announces that the winner of the 2023 poster and program cover art contest is Carol Foldvary-Anderson. Her design, "Digital Collage Improv," was selected from eight entries to highlight the 20th annual Carson City music festival.

Carol Foldvary-Anderson, a mixed media, multi award-winning, Nevada State Roster artist best known for her Oil Pastel Smudge technique and Calligraphy, has recently been experimenting with digital images. She said "My goal in life is to create art and to bring beauty into the world. I am very proud to have my art represent the 2023 Jazz & Beyond festival!"

Jazz & Beyond will feature more than twenty free concerts at many Carson City venues. It opens with the Reno Jazz Orchestra on Friday, August 11, outdoors at the Governor's Mansion. The country-themed Day at the Silver Saddle Ranch will be on Sunday, August 13. The festival will close with the Mile High Jazz Band on Count BasieÕs birthday, August 21, at McFadden Plaza Stage.

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 Committee member Elinor Bugli and art contest winner Carol Foldvary-Anderson with design for the 2023 Jazz & Beyond Festival poster

Performers! We Need Your Information for Website and Printed Program
Posted: July 7, 2023

Performers, if we have made arrangements for you to perform on Jazz & Beyond this year, we need you to provide us information so we can prepare the website and prepare the printed programs. If you have not done so yet, please take a moment to complete the online registration form at https://forms.gle/ibdgej5mSWf9J8RY9. Thank you. - David Bugli

Please take our survey
Posted: Aug. 25, 2024

Thank you for visiting the website for the Jazz & Beyond Festival. We would appreciate your taking a short survey about your experience with the festival this year. This will help us understand what you liked and didn't like about this festival, and will help with grant evaluations.

Please click HERE to take our survey.

Jazz & Beyond Committee Announces 2025 Art Contest
Media release, posted March 8, 2025

Mile High Band Association's 2025 Jazz & Beyond Festival Committee is sponsoring an art contest for northern Nevada artists, including teachers and students. Selected entries in the competition may be used to promote the festival, and the winning entry will be featured on the festival's advertising poster and program cover. Festival T-shirts this year may also feature the winning design. The entry deadline is Thursday, May 1, 2025. Participation is free.

The artwork will be judged by a Jazz & Beyond committee. The winner of the competition will receive a certificate of appreciation from the Jazz & Beyond - Carson City Music Festival and a cash award of $200. Art Contest Coordinator Alexander Cassimus said, "The artist's work will be front and center, viewed by thousands of festival patrons."

Entry forms are available for download from jazzcarsoncity.com/artcontest2025.pdf (click on the link).

Artists may submit more than one entry. Artwork must be 11"x14" and may be in any two-dimensional medium (photography, digital collage and photography, watercolor, acrylic, oil, etc.). Artwork must be matted, backed, and submitted in a protective sleeve. The design should relate to music. Each submission requires a separate entry form.

Artists are asked to deliver their entries by Thursday, May 1, to the NAA Gallery, 449 W. King Street, Carson City, Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 4:00 p.m., or contact Alexander Cassimus at 408-264-4423 or away4@earthlink.net for other options.

The entry form and a photo or digital image of the artwork (not to exceed 20 MB) must also be sent as an email attachment to jazzcarsoncity@gmail.com

For more information about the contest and entry forms, contact Alexander Cassimus at 408-264-4423 or away4@earthlink.net.

Photo: Jazz & Beyond Committee member Elinor Bugli (left) and artist Carol Foldvary-Anderson show winning artwork, "Digital Collage Improv," used for the 2023 Jazz & Beyond flyer, program, and T-shirt.

Jazz & Beyond Planners Announce Entertainment for 2025
Updated: May 3, 2025

The planners of the Jazz & Beyond Festival are proud to announce most of the 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, Carolyn Dolan Band, Carson Street Ragtime Band, Cherie and John Shipley's "Take This" band, cowboy poets (Larry Martinel & Johanna Foster, Nancy Harris McLelland), Dallas Smith & Susan Mazer, Darrell and the Darrell-Licks, Dom & Friends, Doug Sandall and Dale Poune (the Double D's), Gardnervillains, Jazz Catz, The Jazzettes USA, Kantu Inka Machu Picchu, Lucky Diamond and the Incontinentals, Mark & Bella, Mile High Jazz Band's Basie Birthday event, Monique De Haviland Band, 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 Impromtu.

Details of locations and times will be posted later.

Registration Form for Performers
Posted: May 24, 2025

Attention Performers: If you have been contacted that you have been selected to perform on Jazz & Beyond 2025, we request that you take time to fill out our online registration form. It is a convenient way to provide us with the information we need to prepare printed programs and content for the festival's website at JazzCarsonCity.com.

We understand that some information can be subject to change as we get closer to the event, so please convey those changes in a timely manner to dcbugli@aol.com so that planners can make appropriate changes to our planning documents, publicity, etc.

You can access the form by clicking on HERE. (If you see a notice about switching accounts, you can ignore it.)

Thank you.

Jazz & Beyond Art Contest
Submittal Date Extended to May 15, 2025
Posted: May 3, 2025

The deadline for the 2025 Jazz & Beyond Festival art contest has been extended to Thursday, May 15, 2025. The contest is for northern Nevada artists, including teachers and students. The winning entry will be featured on the festival's advertising poster and program cover and the winner will receive a cash award of $200. Festival T-shirts this year may also feature the winning design. Entry forms are available for download from jazzcarsoncity.com. Participation is free.

The Jazz & Beyond festival, now in its 22nd year, is produced by Mile High Jazz Band Association. The artwork will be judged by a Jazz & Beyond committee. Art Contest Coordinator Alexander Cassimus said, "The artist's work will be front and center, viewed by thousands of festival patrons."

Artists may submit more than one entry. Artwork must be 11"x14" and may be in any two-dimensional medium (photography, digital collage and photography, watercolor, acrylic, oil, etc.). Artwork must be matted, backed, and submitted in a protective sleeve. The design should relate to music. Each submission requires a separate entry form.

Artists are asked to deliver their entries by Thursday, May 15, to the NAA Gallery, 449 W. King Street, Carson City, Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 4:00 p.m., or contact Alexander Cassimus at 408-264-4423 or away4@earthlink.net for other options.

Entry forms are available for download from jazzcarsoncity.com/artcontest2025.pdf (click on the link).

The entry form and a photo or digital image of the artwork (not to exceed 20 MB) must also be sent as an email attachment to jazzcarsoncity@gmail.com

For more information about the contest and entry forms, contact Alexander Cassimus at 408-264-4423 or away4@earthlink.net.

Photo: Jazz & Beyond Committee member Elinor Bugli (left) and artist Carol Foldvary-Anderson show winning artwork, "Digital Collage Improv," used for the 2023 Jazz & Beyond flyer, program, and T-shirt.

Preliminary Information on Jazz & Beyond 2025
Updated March 8, 2025

We are proud to announce that the Jazz & Beyond Music festival will start on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025 (featuring the Reno Jazz Orchestra) and end on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. Also, the Mile High Jazz Band will be presenting is "Basie' Birthday" Event on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025.

Check this website for further details.