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Litchfield Jazz Camp Awards $90,000 in Need-Based Scholarships
Location: Kent School, Kent, CT
Contact: 860-567-4162
Email: [email protected]
Website: litchfieldjazzfest.com
Kent. CT--Litchfield Jazz Camp, the 13-year-old teaching arm of the renowned Litchfield Jazz Festival, has made if first big move this summer-- to Kent School in Kent, CT, for a month-long program July 5 August 2. The move was much welcomed by the Kent Community and has allowed the program to enroll a record number of students. Enrollment now stands at 325 students across 500 student weeks, and is still growing.
Even more important, says the programs founder, Vita West Muir, is the opportunity the larger Kent School campus creates to serve more students in need. This summer Litchfield Jazz Camp will distribute over $90,000 in need-based scholarship support to young players. In turn, the camp is grateful for major support from the CT Department of Education Bureau of Choice and new support this year from the Joe Williams Fund, Faye and Jim Preston of Kent Village Barns, Friends and Best Friends of the Festival, area foundations, and donors to Litchfield Performing Arts, the 28 year old non-profit which runs the Camp and Festival.
Litchfield Jazz Camp is one of the largest programs of its kind and the only one with such an expansive need-based scholarship program. It has been featured in JazzTimes, Downbeat and TIME Magazines, on CNN and on CPTVs Positively Connecticut with Diane Smith.
Litchfield Jazz Camps music director is saxophonist/composer/educator
Location: Kent School, Kent, CT
Contact: 860-567-4162
Email: [email protected]
Website: litchfieldjazzfest.com
Kent. CT--Litchfield Jazz Camp, the 13-year-old teaching arm of the renowned Litchfield Jazz Festival, has made if first big move this summer-- to Kent School in Kent, CT, for a month-long program July 5 August 2. The move was much welcomed by the Kent Community and has allowed the program to enroll a record number of students. Enrollment now stands at 325 students across 500 student weeks, and is still growing.
Even more important, says the programs founder, Vita West Muir, is the opportunity the larger Kent School campus creates to serve more students in need. This summer Litchfield Jazz Camp will distribute over $90,000 in need-based scholarship support to young players. In turn, the camp is grateful for major support from the CT Department of Education Bureau of Choice and new support this year from the Joe Williams Fund, Faye and Jim Preston of Kent Village Barns, Friends and Best Friends of the Festival, area foundations, and donors to Litchfield Performing Arts, the 28 year old non-profit which runs the Camp and Festival.
Litchfield Jazz Camp is one of the largest programs of its kind and the only one with such an expansive need-based scholarship program. It has been featured in JazzTimes, Downbeat and TIME Magazines, on CNN and on CPTVs Positively Connecticut with Diane Smith.
Litchfield Jazz Camps music director is saxophonist/composer/educator
Don Braden
saxophone, tenorb.1963
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