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About JAM Duluth

Returning for it’s second year in Duluth, MN, the Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) Concert Series is a weekly concert series in April founded to promote jazz awareness in a manner that directly engages and supports the vibrant local music ecosystem in the Twin Ports. JAM concerts are held twice a week throughout various local restaurants & venues and will generate performance opportunities for over 80 local & regional jazz musicians, ranging from high-school students to professionals. The series is organized by local music stakeholders in partnership with Campfire Music Foundation, a MN music nonprofit founded to create a new model of music streaming and build thriving music communities.

Listen to this Interview about the 2024 Series between Jazz88 host Peter Solomon and JAM Director Thomas Woytko!

Goals of The JAM Concert Series:

– To promote and increase the public’s awareness of the vibrant jazz ecosystem in the Twin Ports
– To provide an opportunity for students and educators from Duluth and beyond to meet, demonstrate, and share their musical achievements and creativity
– To complement and enhance the teaching, learning and growing process associated with jazz music
– To foster and promote a lifelong interest in music as a basic human experience
– To provide paid performance opportunities for professional musicians in the Twin Ports

This series is for the Students! Our mission is to encourage and expose students to the diverse culture of Jazz through listening and playing opportunities. Many great Jazz musicians have said that they learned to play on the band stand. A developing musician is more likely to learn at an efficient pace and with depth of understanding when interacting with knowledgeable performers such as older musicians and more experienced peers, and by participating in authentic musical experiences. Similarly to language development, students will learn to listen to, replicate, and mimic musical ideas through the JAM Concert Series.

See what the Reader had to say about the 2023 series!

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Interested in making a donation towards the series?

We depend entirely on philanthropic donations, grants, and the generous backing of our community partners and sponsors to produce these events. All donations will go towards the cost of event production and musician payments.

 

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About Campfire Music Foundation

Campfire Music Foundation is an event sponsor an a registered 501c(3) not-for-profit charitable organization founded to build a new model of music streaming economics that pays artists more fairly and transparently for their recorded music. Their mission is to reduce issues of labor insecurity in the music industry through public-benefit digital infrastructure projects that foster long-term economic sustainability for working musicians, independent stakeholders, and local music communities