2025 Michigan Jazz Festival Auditions

2025 Michigan Jazz Festival Auditions for musicians are now open. The deadline is March 1, 2025, 11:59 pm. The Michigan Jazz Festival is Sunday, July 20, 2025 at Schoolcraft College Vistatech Center, Livonia MI. This application is extended to Michigan residents or strongly connected Michigan-based Jazz groups, including artists from neighboring Toledo and Windsor. We are a regional festival with a non-negotiable artist fee and no funds provided for food, lodging, or travel.
Your YouTube submission should be 1 or 2 songs containing clips or recent material. Please do not send entire performance sets or links to websites or other media. Please no edits or compilations of songs. Link to apply is: www.michiganjazzfestival.org/apply.
We encourage new jazz artists to apply. We will notify artists in late April, early May and we will subsequently publish our schedule when all artists have been confirmed. Please wait for us to contact you for results.
Young artists, college and high school age may apply to perform on our education stage. If this is you, please contact Scott Gwinnell at wscottgwinnell@gmail.com with details about you or your group.
We look forward to your submission.