We are looking for volunteers to help staff our booth at the Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, May 31st. If you are interested, please email Melissa Jones at melissa@jazzstl.org. The festival promises to be a great one with acts like Cassandra Wilson and Joe Sample. You can read all about it below.

The sounds of summer will fill the air on Saturday, May 31 as the Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival once again transforms Clayton’s Shaw Park for the eighth season of the region’s premier music festival. We are pleased to present for the first time at the jazz festival Cassandra Wilson, Joe Sample and Randy Crawford, Tito Puente, Jr., Lao Tizer with special guests Chieli Minucci and Karen Briggs, Teddy Presberg, Ptah Williams with the music of Stevie Wonder, the St. Louis Jazz Orchestra, The Brian Owens Group and Two Times True featuring Carolbeth and David True.

Scheduled To Appear In Order of Appearance:

Saturday, May 31 | Gates open at 12:00 noon
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Emerson Stage Two Times True – Carolbeth and David True
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Soul School Stage Teddy Presberg
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Emerson Stage Lao Tizer with special guests Chiele Minucci and Karen Briggs
2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Soul School Stage St. Louis Jazz Orchestra, directed by Jim Widner
3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Emerson Stage Tito Puente, Jr. Orchestra
4:00 -5:00 p.m. Soul School Stage Ptah Williams – The Music of Stevie Wonder
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Emerson Stage Joe Sample and Randy Crawford
6:30-7:30 p.m. Soul School Stage The Brian Owens Group
7:30 – 9:00 p.m. Emerson Stage Cassandra Wilson

To round out your festival experience, we are bringing back festival favorites -The Improv, offering hands-on musical experiences for jazzters of all ages, such as “make your own instrument!” and The Instrument Petting Zoo, in collaboration with The Music Center of Kirkwood, an area that will provide guests an opportunity to make their own “jazz” using trombones, guitars, saxophones, trumpets, flutes, violins and an array of percussion instruments. Soul School, presented by Jazz St. Louis will feature the best regional jazz artists in an intimate setting serving up an “all access” experience of conversations and performances. Located next to the U. S. Cellular Garden Seating Area will be the Festival’s food court, featuring restaurants and concessions that will serve delectable dishes. Beer, wine, soda and water will also be available for purchase during the Festival.

Children 12 and under are free when accompanied by a parent or guardian (general admission only). The Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival will take place rain or shine. For general Festival information, call 314-863-0278 or visit the web site at www.saintlouisjazzfest.com. No animals are allowed at the festival except for support dogs per Clayton ordinance 4-13 and no in-line skates, skateboards, bicycles or segways are allowed per Clayton ordinance 21-26. No backpacks, coolers or food and beverage are allowed to be taken into the Festival.

The supporting sponsors of the jazz festival include: Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation, Emerson, Edward Jones, Laclede Gas Company, Jazz St. Louis, the Sheldon Concert Hall, the City of Clayton, U.S. Cellular, Saturn, Borders, the DESCO Group, HOK, Brighton, Renewal by Andersen, Ambassador Courier, Garden Heights Nursery, BSI Constructors, Regional Arts Commission and Missouri Arts Council, St. Louis Magazine, A Floral Gallery, Pearle Vision Centers, St. Louis American, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Majic 104.9, KETC-TV Channel 9, Michelob, Grey Eagle Distributors, Inc., STL Sound, El Mundo Latino, Center of Clayton , Absopure Water Company, Summit Distributing, Bathfitter and American Laser Centers.

Cultural Festivals is a not-for-profit organization which presents and produces the Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Saint Louis Art Fair and The Big Read. The mission of the Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival is to stimulate awareness of the broad and diverse array of jazz music and to nurture and encourage the understanding and appreciation of jazz as a musical art form. Through performance and education, the Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival will collaborate with and serve the community.