Kirkwood Vocal Jazz Festival

Overview

Join us for the public performances of the Kirkwood Vocal Jazz Festival on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 19-20, at 7:30 p.m. in Ballantyne Auditorium! These evening concerts feature Kirkwood's Jazz Transit and guest performers New York Voices, the internationally acclaimed jazz vocal group!

The evening performances are ticketed events; the performance is the same both evenings. Tickets are general admission. You may purchase tickets ahead of time and choose your seat when you arrive at the venue, based on what is available.

The daytime festival is free and open to the public, no tickets required, and will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Ballantyne Auditorium and Iowa Hall. You are welcome to join us for the daytime portion of the festival as well as the ticketed evening performance!

Tickets are available at the door or in advance at: https://kirkwoodarts.simpletix.com/. Tickets are free for Kirkwood students, faculty, and staff!

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New York Voices (NYV) was born in the mid-1980s at upstate New York’s Ithaca College. They signed with GRP in 1989 and quickly made their first recording, New York Voices, a mix of acoustic and electric, traditional and crossover jazz. They declared their new identity with 1997’s New York Voices Sing the Songs of Paul Simon. With the dawn of the 21st century, NYV increased its currency in the jazz world via collaborations with institutions such as the Count Basie Orchestra, Paquito d’Rivera, and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band.

"After 38 years of recording, touring and living our musical lives together, we are writing our final chapter. At the end of 2026, we are hanging up our microphones and waltzing into other solo endeavors that have been ruminating and retiring our beloved musical family.”

More information about New York Voices: https://newyorkvoices.com/