Show Your Support

Ways To Show Your Support
• Attend the free performances each year
• Make a personal financial donation to the festival
• Tell your friends and family about the festival
• Encourage jazz musicians 18+ to audition for the festival
• Donate your time to help at the festival
• Donate a breakfast, lunch, or dinner for festival participants
• Donate hotel rooms for festival participants

To request more information about the Jass Festival and how you can help please click here!

2011 Jass Festival
Contributing Businesses and Organizations

Bluestem Center for the Arts
Music festivals, community events, performance art, speakers, and a host of other activities and exhibitions make up the creative ecology of Bluestem.

More than activities, Bluestem Center for the Arts represents a spirit of being, of how human beings are in the world. As a social space of creativity, learning and growth, Bluestem strives to focus on what matters. And when people speak of what matters to them, they invariably talk about the important human connections they have made in their lives.

Our valued human connections are characterized by a spirit of aliveness, depth, intimacy and meaning. Building these connections and the social fabric of our community is the focus of Bluestem through our programs.

Bluestem is an ongoing celebration of the subjective experience of life. Similarly, Bluestem reaches toward an elevation of human experience into a life that matters for our patrons. Arts and arts related activities provide the means by which we explore the world; this space in our lives embraces imagination, exploration and the mystery of life. This is the spirit of Bluestem.

Eckroth Music
Over thirty-five years ago, Bill and Mary Ann Eckroth opened the doors of Eckroth Music in Bismarck, North Dakota. It was during the summer of 1972 they began their dream of owning a music store that focused on serving the musical instrument and related accessory needs for musicians and music educators.

Although many changes have taken place over the years, the Eckroth family and the Eckroth Music staff continue to enthusiastically provide their customers with service and quality products unequaled to any in the region.

The North Dakota Army National Guard
The official mission of the 188th Army Band is to provide music throughout the full spectrum of military operations and to instill in our Soldiers the will to fight and win, to foster the support of our citizens, to promote our national interests at home and abroad, and to entertain our audiences. In successful completion and ongoing fulfillment of that mission, the band has continued to provide music to the citizens and Soldiers of North Dakota for over 120 years.

Living Hope Baptist Church of West Fargo
Living Hope is an intentional church start (not a split off of some other church!) Our "mother" church is Temple Baptist in north Fargo.

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