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Ellensburg Music Festival


We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization driven completely by a volunteer board. Even though we have a budget of over $100,000, it may surprise you to learn that we have no staff. When you attend a festival, you are seeing the hard work of countless board members, weekend volunteers, and committee volunteers. The festival is a task that takes an entire year to plan and pull off the three days of fun.

We strive to offer an affordable, entertaining weekend of performances of high artist merit. Our music committee strives to offer our patrons a diversity of musical styles within the roots of jazz. We often get asked why we offer genres like blues and rock. These music genres were greatly shaped by the early jazz days. Without jazz, they would not be the same as they are today.

We provide educational opportunities to Central Washington University students via two music scholarships.

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Ellensburg Music Festival 2023

Our 2023 music venues (open both nights, all of which are very walkable and within a 2-4 block radius of all other venues): Fortuity Wine and Nuwave Gallery (3rd Ave near Pearl Street) (5-8pm) Pine Street Events (Pine Street) (5-8pm) IOOF Odd…

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Ellensburg Music Festival 2022

Ellensburg, Washington's Summer Music Festival A small town music festival like no other Ellensburg Music Festival, formerly Jazz in the Valley, is a nonprofit music festival in downtown Ellensburg, Washington. Explore downtown Ellensburg while…

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