UWYO Jazz Festival
Welcome!
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The 2026 UW Jazz Festival is coming February 23!
Our goals for the UW Jazz Festival are simple: great music with outstanding and positive jazz education. These simple objectives promise to make this an enlightening and enjoyable experience for students, teachers, and audience members.
Middle and High School Big Bands, Combos, and Vocal Ensembles are all welcome!
We are very excited about this year's festival featuring an all-star lineup of amazing guest artists!
Registration: $300/ensemble Registration Fee must be paid for each ensemble. PLEASE NOTE: Registration closes on January 31. If you must cancel in case of an emergency, please call 307-766-5242 as soon as possible. Refunds are not available after January 31. Register Here
TICKETS for the 5:00 p.m. evening concert ft. Michael Dease may be purchased at the BCPA Box Office. All UW Jazz Festival participants (including directors) may purchase tickets at the $5.00 participant price (plus box office fees).
Tell your students to bring $$$, so they can take home some UWYO JAZZ FESTIVAL merch!
We look forward to seeing and hearing you February 23. Let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for how we may serve you.
Most sincerely, |
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Dr. Ben Markley Department Head
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Andy Wheelock Director of Jazz Studies |
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Guest Artists/Adjudicators
We are very excited about this year's all-star lineup of amazing guest artists! Learn more below!
School Performances
ALL student performances and warm-up will take place in the Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA) on the UW campus (see the campus map or Google maps for the BCPA location).
The Registration Check-In Table will be located in the BCPA main lobby. Visit our on-line schedule to find out when you perform.
WARM-UPS: After check in, band guides will lead each group to their warm-up room 30 minutes before their performance. Each performing group will have a 30-minute warm up. The warm-up room will have chairs, stands, drum set, cymbals, piano, guitar amp, and bass amp.
PERFORMANCE INFO: Performances will take place in the BCPA Concert Hall, Main Stage Theatre, and Recital Hall*. Each school group is allotted 30-minutes on stage (including set up/tear down). Once the performance is ended, adjudicators will provide an on-stage clinic with any time remaining in the 30-minute slot (i.e., a group performing for 20 minutes will receive an ~10-minute clinic), thereby allowing directors to choose how to use the total time allotted. A 30-minute performance will not receive an on-stage clinic. Please do not exceed the 30 min limit for performance and set up/tear down. *All vocal groups will perform in the Recital Hall, which is acoustically designed to project the voice; microphones will not be provided for vocal groups.
FEEDBACK: All participants will receive recorded comments during the performance from the adjudicators. All comments and ratings are confidential. After your performance, please pick up your adjudication packet at the Registration Table. Directors ARE NOT required to provide scores for adjudicators.
BUCHANAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
PERFORMANCE ROOM AMENITIES
Performance rooms will provide:
- chairs, stands,
- drum set,
- cymbals,
- piano,
- guitar amp,
- bass amp,
- vibraphone, and
- necessary sound reinforcement.
Performance rooms will NOT provide:
- patch chords,
- auxiliary percussion, or
- electric keyboards.
(Drummers may use their own cymbals, but no other equipment may be changed.)
All cases and equipment must accompany each band to and from warmup rooms. There will be a holding place outside of each performance venue where students can pack their instruments immediately following a performance. Attendees are responsible for their own equipment; the UW Jazz Festival and University of Wyoming are not responsible for any lost or stolen items.
PARKING
Student drop off and pick up will be located in the BCPA North parking lot (near the Law Building). All bus parking is located at the Free Express Shuttle lot on the East side of Willett Drive near the UW soccer stadium and North of the Bison Run Village Apartments. There is no bus parking at the venues. See parking map.
