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The SLO Jazz Festival will be a nationally recognized, exciting music, art, and dance-related beautiful, classy, and fun community involving event that will grow to be a major festival in California within the next decade.

The objective of festival organizers is to bring a multiple stage festival that combines the world of musicians, dancers, artists, and local restaurants, vendors, stores, wineries, and community members into a worldwide community event that will attract high-class talent and people into our beautiful community to share the incredible music being fostered and grown here as a major tourist attraction.

Background:

Local jazz musician and band leader, Scott Andrews (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, Monterrey, San Francisco, North Beach, Fillmore Street, Newport, Mr. Andrews asked "Why not here in SLO?"

Thus, an idea for something big is inspired. 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.

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. We want to bring that spirit back to the music, right here in SLO."

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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