Three Days. Seven Stages.
100 Performances. June 21-23.

Whether you’ve been to all 31 Elkhart Jazz Festivals, or if this summer will mark your first, we promise to deliver only one thing: A memorable weekend at a great price.

For more assistance, please contact the Lerner Theatre box office at 574.293.4469. Student pricing is available through the box office.

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Elkhart Jazz Festival: Passes

Basic

$10000

This is your gateway to the festival. Access to all stages, all weekend, EXCLUDING headline performers.

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VIP

$22000

Now you are part of “The In Crowd”! Access to all stages, all weekend, EXCLUDING headline performers.
PLUS – VIP access to the Thursday Preview Party; Friday Jazz Picnic at Wellfield Botanic Gardens and evening VIP reception downtown; as well as the Sunday Jazz Brunch ($150 Value).

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Top Brass

$40000

You are TOP BRASS – Thank you for your commitment and support! Entrance to all stages, all weekend, including reserved Main floor seating for all Elkhart Jazz Festival headliners.
PLUS – VIP access to the Thursday Preview Party; Friday Jazz Picnic at Wellfield Botanic Gardens and evening VIP reception downtown; as well as the Sunday Jazz Brunch. This also includes Saturday evening Sponsor reception with ‘Festival Supporter’ acknowledgment!

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Day Pass

Starting at $3000

This is your gateway to the festival. Access to all stages for one day EXCLUDING headline performers.

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Gregory Porter

Starting at $2950

Raised in California, Porter’s mother was a minister, and he cites the Bakersfield Southern Gospel sound, as well as his mother’s Nat King Cole record collection, as fundamental influences on his own sound. Porter began singing in small jazz clubs in San Diego while attending San Diego State University on a football scholarship. Eventually, it was music that Porter chose to pursue full-time at the encouragement of local musicians. Despite having now recorded or shared the stage with the likes of Van Morrison, Wynton Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Nicola Conte, Christian McBride, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, and David Murray, Porter remains grounded and humbled by all the new accolades.

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The Hot Sardines

Starting at $1950

Fueled by the belief that classic jazz feeds the heart and soul, THE HOT SARDINES are on a mission to make old sounds new again and prove that joyful music can bring people together in a disconnected world. In the last two years, the Hot Sardines have been featured at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival, have sold out NYC venues from Joe’s Pub to Bowery Ballroom and more than 150 tour dates from Chicago to London, and have released two albums on Universal Music Classics to critical raves and a No. 1 slot on the iTunes Jazz chart in the U.S. and internationally. In the hot jazz movement, The Hot Sardines stand apart for the innovation, verve and sheer joy they bring to music, both new and old. With special guests Davina and the Vagabonds.

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Don’t Miss This Year’s Headliners

Friday 6/21

Gregory Porter

Gregory Porter (born November 4, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2014 for Liquid Spirit and in 2017 for Take Me to the Alley.

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Saturday 6/22

The Hot Sardines
feat. Davina and the Vagabonds

The Hot Sardines is an American jazz band formed in New York City in 2007 by artistic director, singer and writer Elizabeth Bougerol and artistic director, actor and piano player Evan Palazzo.

Davina and the Vagabonds is a jazz blues band based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and formed in 2006. Their 2014 release titled Sunshine charted at #13 on the Billboard Blues Chart. One of the singles from Sunshine, “I Would Rather Drink Muddy Water” peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Blues Digital Songs.

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Sunday 6/23

The Airmen of Note USAF

The Airmen of Note is the premier jazz ensemble of the United States Air Force. Stationed at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., it is one of six musical ensembles that comprise The U.S. Air Force Band. Created in 1950 to continue the tradition of Major Glenn Miller’s Army Air Forces dance band, the current band consists of 18 active duty Airmen musicians including one vocalist.

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