Festivals
Jazz festivals are typically multi-day events, or sometimes one-day, multi-performer events. We’ve listed the ones that are within roughly a day’s drive of New York State’s Capital District. If you know of any festivals we’re missing, please let us know. Click on the festival’s website for full info. To find other festivals, go to our links page.
NOTE 1: Lincoln Center in New York City has jazz almost every night, and many of their presentations are over a several day period. And the Kennedy Center in Washington has many jazz events in addition to those shown on the Festivals page.
NOTE 2: They don’t meet our “roughly a day’s drive” criterion, but we’ve added jazz cruises to the listings because they’re really super-festivals.
Montreal, PQ Toronto, ON New Paltz, NY Leonardtown & Colton's Point, MD S. Yarmouth, MA At Birdland, New York, NY Montclair, NJ Hartford, CT Wayne, NJ Columbus, OH Syracuse, NY Montclair, NJ Oswego, NY Syracuse, NY Litchfield, CT Newport, RI Cambridge, MA Rockport, MA Waterbury, CT Cotuit, MA Springfield, MA Oak Bluff (Martha's Vineyard), MA Richmond, VA Montclair, NJ
Festival International de Jazz
Beaches Jazz Featival
Festival of the Arts
Potomac Jazz & Seafood Festival
Provincetown Jazz Festival
Django Reinhardt Festival
Montclair Jazz Festival
Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz
William Paterson Univ Summer Jazz Room
Jazz & Rib Fest
Salt City Summer Fest
Montclair Jazz Festival
Harborfest
Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival
Litchfield Jazz Festival
Newport Jazz Festival
Cambridge Jazz Festival
Rockport Jazz Festival
Brass City Jazz Fest
Provincetown Jazz Festival
Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival
Jazz on the Vineyard
Richmond Jazz Festival
Montclair Jazz Festival