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Silver Spring Jazz Festival 20 Years

The Silver Spring Jazz festival began in 2004 with local jazz great Keter Betts and Silver Spring’s own smooth jazz star Marcus Johnson as headliners. The festival has featured a variety of well known, popular performers, with jazz styles ranging from New Orleans’ style big band, to contemporary jazz, to smooth jazz, to straight ahead jazz, to Latin jazz, and more.

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Silver Spring Jazz Festival 2024

20th Anniversary with Chucho Valdés Quartet The Silver Spring Jazz Festival's headliner is Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés. He is a winner of seven Grammy and six Latin Grammy Awards, and is the most influential figure in…

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Silver Spring Jazz Festival 2023

Over the course of a multifaceted career spanning four decades, Jazz giant Dee Dee Bridgewater has puts her unique spin on standards as well as re-envisioning jazz classics. Bridgewater’s career has always bridged musical genres. She earned…

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