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Sponsors for the 2009 SLO WINTER FUNK FESTIVAL (raising awareness for SLO Jazz Festival) INCLUDED:
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Mission StatementWe aim to inspire, promote, and nurture the human spirit one festival at a time. Vision for Jazz FestivalTo organize, promote and sponsor festivals featuring jazz and jazz-related music and art in the City and County of San Luis Obispo, California. The SLO Jazz Festival is a premier music event featuring top talent from around the globe and San Luis Obispo County. We will have multiple stages throughout our beloved downtown, including the delightful Mission Plaza. It will bring together friends, family, students, and community from the Central Coast and Beyond. About SLO Jazz FestivalBackground: SLO Jazz Festival is a non-profit organization founded in 2010 committed to promoting local and world-class jazz-related music to benefit businesses, schools, students, and the music arts community in San Luis Obispo, California. Executive Committee: Scott Andrews, Festival Director and Founder Scott orchestrated the launch of the 2009 SLO Winter Funk Festival and his company ARRiiVE Business Solutions successfully launches startup organizations, products, and services.
Sharon Hicklin, Festival Operations Sharon is a music industry executive with more than 15 yrs experience with overseeing business, recording, event and marketing operations on a global scale. Kevin Costigliolo, Festival Coordinator Kevin is a promoter and concert producer for over 10 years on the Central Coast (including Cayucos Music Festival, Pozo, and beyond) and is skilled in all aspects of coordinating a successful festival.
Sue Cosper, Festival Treasurer Sue is an accountant with Longcrier & Assoc. and brings a well rounded finance background to the organization and a passion for jazz music festivals. Founder's Vision Local musician and band leader, Scott Andrews (from BODY http://www.myspace.com/body), noticed that many major cities in California have wonderful music festivals happening on an annual basis. After attending many of the jazz festivals around the state in Sacramento, San Jose, Monterey, San Francisco, North Beach, Fillmore Street, Newport, Mr. Andrews asked "Why not here in SLO?" That idea sparked the inspiration for something big. Mr. Andrews helps organizations launch new companies, products, and services, with his company, ARRiiVE Business Solutions (www.ARRiiVE.com), so to him, it just seemed natural to launch the SLO Jazz Festival. THE VISION: JAMS - LIVE ART - DANCE - BEYOND JAZZ Andrews envisions integration of international touring headliners with regional music acts, along with top talent from among the local San Luis Obispo County to fill up the stages of jazz festival events. The organization hopes to establish several jazz sponsorships for students to further benefit and grow in their music studies. In addition, Andrews foresees the local wineries gaining a benefit from more exposure to tourists from Northern and Southern California, as well as restaurants and businesses expanding their visibility to people in and out of SLO County. As something most other jazz festivals are just beginning to experiment with, Andrews wants the music to be an outreach for artists, and combine art jams with free music jams. It could get interesting, to say the least. Andrews also wants the music to be educational, and give back to the community opportunities to learn and grow through such diverse music as salsa, world-beat (afro, reggae, latin), straight-ahead, beyond jazz, and swing jazz. "The JAM session is going to be a part of this festival, without a doubt a highlight of the festival," says Andrews. "Jam sessions were the foundations of jazz back in the early years of Birdland (a historically famous NYC jazz club). We want to bring that spirit back to the music, right here in SLO." This is not the JAZZ POLICE. For those of you who feel JAZZ is BORING, STAGNANT or OUTDATED, you might be refreshed to know that Andrews want the SLO Jazz Festival to be about the music that stretches the limits of genre, so there may be salsa, funk, world beat, gypsy-jazz, MC/spoken word, and other types of music and stages growing and expanding the standard definitions of jazz. It's about "what is alive, fresh, new, and exciting!" If you're interested in joining the San Luis Obispo Jazz Festival Organization, please sign-up with our feedback form and indicate your area of interest and expertise. We need volunteers, people with experience in marketing non-profit organizations, raising sponsorship, coordinating events, inspiring jazz hounds, building educational activities, working with community leaders, and becoming organization leaders. It's a terrific opportunity to get involved on the ground floor and make something happen!
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