With 100 musicians lined up, Northampton Jazz Festival isn’t missing a beat

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Written By Elena Sharnoff
Springfield Sci-Tech Jazz Band 2022

Springfield Sci-Tech Jazz Band performs at the Northampton Jazz Festival in 2022. (Hoang 'Leon' Nguyen / The Republican)

By Keith O'Connor | The Republican

You know your jazz festival isn’t “missing a beat” when Downbeat Magazine — considered by many as the best jazz magazine in the world — pays attention to you.

“Mention the word ‘festival’ to jazz fans and chances are they’ll first think of legendary annual events at Newport, Monterey, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Montreal or Montreux. However, quality jazz festivals take place in a variety of lesser-known locales as well. Although these festivals are smaller in scale, they can pack plenty of quality musicianship into intimate, comfortable surroundings — and create memorable experiences for jazz aficionados,” wrote Terry Perkins in the introduction to her article entitled “Northampton Jazz Festival: Small Town, Big Jazz Heart.”

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Elena Sharnoff

Elena Sharnoff, Ph.D., principal of B Strategic Communications, creates customized communication and web strategies that combine ingenuity, insight, and impact. She offers more than 20 years of experience in communications, strategic planning, project management, and audience engagement, with a focus on organizations in the education, non-profit, and sustainability sectors. Her communications background includes strategic marketing and communications, website strategy and management, branding, messaging, digital campaigns, content development, publications, art direction of multimedia collateral, and media relations.

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