Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend

Washington's finest and longest-running summer jazz festival, Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend features the best in straight ahead jazz. Held at historic Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, national and international jazz greats perform on the mainstage at McCurdy Pavilion, a renovated WWI-era dirigible hangar with phenomenal acoustics. Perfomers and audience members then head to numerous waterfront clubs in the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend for four days of unique, intimate performances.

The festival is the public culmination of Centrum's Bud Shank Jazz Workshop. For more than 20 years, one of the country's finest jazz experiences, set in one of the West Coast's most beautiful locations

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Washington's finest and longest-running summer jazz festival, Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend features the best in straight ahead jazz. Held at historic Fort Worden State Park in Port Townsend, national and international jazz greats perform on the mainstage at McCurdy Pavilion, a renovated WWI-era dirigible hangar with phenomenal acoustics. Perfomers and audience members then head to numerous waterfront clubs in the Victorian seaport of Port Townsend for four days of unique, intimate performances.

The festival is the public culmination of Centrum's Bud Shank Jazz Workshop. For more than 20 years, one of the country's finest jazz experiences, set in one of the West Coast's most beautiful locations. Participants come from across the United States, as well as Canada, Europe and the Far East. The combination of world-class artist/faculty, plus talented and enthusiastic participants creates a rare community of jazz musicians. The workshop provides a week of intensive study and interaction with internationally-acclaimed jazz artists. These sessions serve musicans of varying ages and experience--all serious about jazz.

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