Next Generation Festival - Presented by the Monterey Jazz Festival

Every Spring, the Monterey Jazz Festival invites the top student musicians from across the country and around the world to participate in the Next Generation Festival.

This inspiring weekend devoted to the future of jazz featured MJF's Annual National High School Jazz Competition, including high school big bands, combos, and vocal ensembles, as well as divisions for middle school, college, and conglomerate bands.

The Next Generation Festival also offered free concerts and clinics, and hosted auditions for MJF’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, which perfors at the Monterey Jazz Festival each year MJF and in a North American and European performance tour.

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Every Spring, the Monterey Jazz Festival invites the top student musicians from across the country and around the world to participate in the Next Generation Festival.

This inspiring weekend devoted to the future of jazz featured MJF's Annual National High School Jazz Competition, including high school big bands, combos, and vocal ensembles, as well as divisions for middle school, college, and conglomerate bands.

The Next Generation Festival also offered free concerts and clinics, and hosted auditions for MJF’s Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, which perfors at the Monterey Jazz Festival each year MJF and in a North American and European performance tour.

As always, all Next Generation Festival performances, clinics, and jam sessions were open to the public, free of charge.

We hope you can join us in our annual celebration of the future of jazz at next year's Next Generation Festival, April 3 - 5, 2009 in downtown Monterey.

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