The Courthouse lawn will be home this year to the fourth annual B’Town Jazz Fest, which has moved from its previous location on Grant Street. The event will last from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.
The festival is one of the free events B’Town Jazz hosts each year in its effort to “promote and preserve jazz as America’s unique art form,” according to the group’s website.
Jazz from Bloomington, the original name of B’Town Jazz, was formed in 1999 by Bloomington area jazz musicians to raise funds for rejuvenation of the Indiana Theatre, now Buskirk-Chumley Theater, according to the website. It has low-cost and free jazz events for the community such as concerts, lectures, workshops and jam sessions.
Musicians from the group also perform at Taste of Bloomington, which takes place in June each year.
The music at the festival will kick off at 11:40 a.m. when the first band to perform, Jefferson Street Parade Band, marches to the Jazz Fest stage from the B-line trail. A full list of performers is located at btownjazz.org.
B’Town Jazz Fest is free and open to the public.
Cassie Heeke
