13th Annual Litchfield Jazz Festival Announces 2008 Line-up & Tickets On-Sale Now!    August 1, 2, 3, 2008 Goshen Fairgrounds, Route 63 Goshen, Connecticut Tickets Start at $35 Phone: 860-567-4162 Fax: 860-567-3592 Email: info@litchfieldjazzfest.com Website: www.litchfieldjazzfest.com Friday Night, August 1 5:30-7pm ...

Seating Options: BEST FRIEND: 3-day VIP pass entitles you to up-front seating all weekend, admission to the opening night “Friend’s of the Festival” Party, a Litchfield Jazz Festival tote full of goodies, and VIP parking all weekend. FRIEND: Admission to the opening night “Friends of the Festival” Party and VIP ...

Travel & Accommodations: Litchfield Jazz Festival has a special pricing arrangement with the newly renovated Connecticut Grand Hotel & Conference Center 800-446-1521, in Waterbury. Identify yourself as a festival-goer to receive the Litchfield Jazz Festival rate. Rooms fill up quickly for the festival weekend, so it would be ...

Zaccai & Luques Curtis appear with their group, Insight, on Saturday, August 4, 2007. <tbody>Insight Insight’s music is African-based with Latin influences as well as European and Asian. While the band members are young, they have already made a mark on the jazz industry. Members of the group have already garnered prestigious ...

Sonny Fortune appears on the Litchfield Jazz Festival with his Quartet on Saturday, August 4, 2007. Sonny Fortune Quartet Sonny Fortune was born in Philadelphia in 1939. He embodies all of the finest qualities of late, great musicians like Coltrane and Parker: hard work, dedication to his art, and exceptional music. In 1967 he moved to New York ...

Slide Hampton appears on the Litchfield Jazz Festival on Friday, August 3, 2007. Slide Hampton Slide Hampton’s distinguished career spans decades in the evolution of jazz. Slide began touring with the Hampton Band (led by his father) at the age of 12. By the age of 20 he was performing at Carnegie Hall with the Lionel Hampton Band. He ...

Rolando Matias & the Afro-Rican Ensemble appears on the Litchfield Jazz Festival on Sunday, August 5, 2007. Rolando Matias & The Afro-Rican Ensemble Rolando Matias started playing percussion at a young age in Cupey Alto, his village in Puerto Rico. Rolando is a self-taught musician and trained architect. Close to a decade ago he founded ...

Rachael Price appears on the Litchfield Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 4, 2007. Rachael Price Vocalist Rachael Price is only 20 years old, but has already had a wealth of musical experiences. She was inspired at age five by an Ella Fitzgerald recording and is now a jazz studies major at the New England Conservatory. Rachael was ...

Nnenna Freelon appears with the Count Basie Orchestra on the Litchfield Jazz Festival on Friday, August 3, 2007. Count Basie Orchestra featuring Nnenna Freelon In his 80- year life span, William “Count” Basie expanded and elevated the art form of jazz to an “American Institution”. The Count Basie Orchestra debuted in 1935 ...

Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra with special guest, Carla Bley, appears on the Litchfield Jazz Festival on Sunday, August 5, 2007.Charlie Haden began his life in music at 22 months singing on his parents’ country & western radio show. In the 1960’s Charlie became known as one of free jazz’s founding fathers. In ...