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Jazz & Beyond 2021
The planning committee has selected Aug. 13-29, 2021, as the dates for the 2021 Jazz & Beyond Festival. Planning for the new festival started in early 2021. Plans are contingent upon the status of the COVID-19 situation. We are looking into three major ways of presenting the festival:
- Presentation of live, in-person events. This will depend upon the availability of facilities where we can present events with appropriate social distancing, if needed. Several of the outdoor venues we have used in past years would apply.
- Presentation of live events that are live-streamed. Some such events could be presented in indoor venues or limited-access outdoor venues and live-streamed via Facebook or a similar platform. These events could also be record and made available, after the live-streaming, on YouTube.com or similar platforms.
- Presentation of pre-recorded performances. These could be presented on Facebook or YouTube.com.
As we better understand to course of the pandemic, we will decide how to present the festival this year. It may be that we do some combination of the approaches just outlined. –David Bugli 2/14/2021
Support
Mile High Jazz Band Association’s Jazz & Beyond Festival is funded by grants from the Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts, and by private donations.
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Jazz & Beyond Committee Announces 2021 Art Contest

Artist Karen Kreyeski with the official, award-winning artwork for the 2020 festival.
Many Musicians
In 2021 we hope to present about many musicians in several events, some virtual and some live. The Third Annual Carson City Open Studios Tour (OST) will be held on Saturday & Sunday, August 21 & 22, 2021.
In 2020, faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, we presented fewer events than we normally do. Most of our live, in-person events had to be cancelled, but we presented 2 nights of drive-in movie (“High Society”), 3 live-streamed events from A to Zen, 2 live-streamed brunch events from Eagle Valley Golf Course, 1 live-streamed event from another venue, and a specially prerecorded event from Virginia. The 2020 live-streamed events are still available for viewing on our J&B On The Web page. In addition, the Second Annual Carson City Open Studios Tour (OST) was on Saturday & Sunday, August 22 & 23, 2020.
In 2019, we presented or featured more than 100 musicians in 50 or more events.
See the interview, Jazz and Beyond 2020: Pandemic Style, with Cortney Bloomer on It’s Your City. Cortney zooms with David Bugli of Mile High Jazz Band to discuss the changes made to 2020’s festival. Interview was recorded Aug. 4, 2020.
The second annual Carson City Open Studios Tour (OST), part of the festival, was on Saturday, August 22, and Sunday, August 23, 2020, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at ten studios throughout Carson City. This admission-free, contemporary cultural event showcased more than 20 local artists, presenting a wide variety of exceptional visual art and art demonstrations, from painting, sculpture, and 3D art to jewelry, photography, and pottery in ten individual and shared spaces. The Wa-Pai-Shone Gallery at Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum displayed works of several Great Basin Native Artists. Individual musicians performed at six of the locations. OST brochures were made available in several locations and will be made available on this website.