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6th Annual Las Vegas Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival

Fri, Feb 14

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Artemus W, Ham Concert Hall - UNLV

Licensed by Jazz at Lincoln Center, this festival is the most prestigious of the more than 2 dozen regional Essentially Ellington festivals in the nation welcoming outstanding high school jazz bands from across CCSD and the western United States!

6th Annual Las Vegas Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival
6th Annual Las Vegas Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival

Time & Location

Feb 14, 2025, 12:45 PM PST – Feb 15, 2025, 5:30 PM PST

Artemus W, Ham Concert Hall - UNLV, 4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA

About the event



Jazz Outreach Initiative and UNLV School of Music, Division of Jazz & Commercial Music present the 6th Annual Las Vegas Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival Final Concert!  


Licensed by Jazz at Lincoln Center, this two-day festival is the most prestigious of the 18 regionals featuring award-winning high school big bands from across the western United States. In addition to the Competition & Festival in New York City each May, Essentially Ellington co-produces regional non-competitive, education-focused festivals designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers at various locations across the country. Participating bands receive professional feedback from JALC clinicians and other jazz professionals in their own backyard.


LAS VEGAS REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND FESTIVAL

& SATURDAY EVENING FINAL CONCERT

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES


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