Salute to Public Music Education

As part of our 10th Anniversary, we’re supporting students in our school district’s public music education programs. As education funding challenges are causing these programs to be diminished, we are investing our efforts to bolster these programs’ resources. This year students of the Wellington Jazz Academy are given opportunities for audience exposure and experience at our events in 2026. When you attend a Festival headliner concert, you’ll find them welcoming guests with their talents pre-show and, most often, entertaining during intermission in the venue lobbies. We’d love to expand this support, reach out to other schools and music programs and even grow the program to include other districts in the mid-Island. Your donations help this happen. You’ll receive a charitable receipt for income tax purposes and knowlege that you’re helping youth explore their place in the future of jazz music in your community.