FESTIVAL 2025:

Shuffle, Swing, Sizzle!

It’s time to lend us your ears and your dancing feet. Our 2025 Festival is booked and ready to rock. We have Grammy winners, Emmy winners, a big band, a finalist from NBC’s The Voice, and composers for film, television, and music videos. These pros have performed with Barbara Streisand, Herbie Hancock, Ray Charles, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Boz Scaggs, Carlos Santana, and Lennie Karvitz. And that’s a partial list! Tickets go on sale July 1.

Our immersive 3-day live jazz experience includes two evenings: Thursday and Friday, August 21 & 22 at Arrowhead Lake Association’s Tavern Bay Beach Club. Thursday evening musical performances includes the award-winning special guest performances by the 2025 Blue Jay Jazz Foundation Future Generation Jazz Scholars.

Saturday, August 23 the party moves to Lake Arrowhead Resort and Spa for an early evening of live jazz. Experience sensational live jazz under tall pine trees overlooking the beautiful lake.

Best of all, the 2025 Jazz Festival is for a good cause – Proceeds help provide instruments, equipment and music making opportunities for our local youth.

Aug 21

Ms. Monét & Friends

Thursday, August 21 brings Ms. Monét & Friends to our stage at Tavern Bay. She’s toured with Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald, and Joe Bonamassa, and sung with R&B legend Soloman Burke.

Critics say, “She shines, channeling the class and vocal genius of the greats before her.”

Special guest artists include George Whitty on keyboard and Michael O’Neill on guitar.

Opening the concert event will be DAP – Digital Audio Projekt – with André Berry, Bruce Rubio and Harold Allen Jr. There will be a special awards ceremony featuring Blue Jay Jazz Foundation’s 2025 Future Generation Jazz Scholars.

Aug 22

World Renowned

Gordon Goodwin Little Phat Band

Friday, August 22, award-winning composer and arranger Gordon Goodwin leads his “Little” Phat Band bringing the joy of jazz and funk wrapped in big band swing.

The ten band members are seasoned pros ready to win over every audience they entertain.

Opening the concert event will be Ara Tokatlian Quintet featuring Ara Tokatlian, Javier Alverez, Joseph Orellana, Jade Pareja, and Carson Ramos.

Opening Act
Ara Tokatlian Quintet

Aug 23

Tamir Hendelman, piano virtuoso
Eddie Wakes, vocals
LA Jazz Salon

“UNFORGETTABLE”
An Evening of Nat King Cole and more…

Saturday, August 23, the Festival offers the Los Angeles Jazz Salon on the lawn of the Lake Arrowhead Resort & Spa with piano virtuoso Tamir Hendelman’s take on the Great American Songbook and jazz standards.

BLUE JAY JAZZ FOUNDATION

2025 FUTURE GENERATION JAZZ SCHOLARS

BJJF 2025 Future Generation Jazzz Scholars

Major Sponsors

Supporters & Donors

Arrowhead Lake Association, Yamaha, Mountain News, Bill and Dinah Ruch Family Foundation, Lake Arrowhead Resort & Spa, Goodwin & Son’s Market, Lake Arrowhead Country Club, Rene Lagler, Wallace P. Brithinee, Alpine Mountaineer, Twin Peaks Printing, The Lake House, Wildflowers at the Lake, Premier Properties & Arrowhead Rental Agency, Jensen’s Finest Foods, Lindsay Wagner, Music & Arts Center, Wheeler Steffen Sotheby’s International Realty, San Bernardino County Supervisor, Dawn Rowe, Women’s Club of Lake Arrowhead, Four Seasons Landscape & Garden Center, Mary Dippell, Matthew Kallis & Friends of Lake Arrowhead Mountain Communities (FLAMC), KW Champions, Rim of the World School District, Lake Arrowhead Rotary, Prime Properties, Jeff Grotewold – Carpet Station, RR Class Act Entertainment, LuluBelle’s Coffee House & Bakery.

Support the Blue Jay Jazz Foundation

We know times are challenging, and we are grateful to each of you for sticking by us. Our education programs provide annual jazz education scholarships, awards, instrument lending and live performance opportunities for students and other young people in the San Bernardino Mountain communities. We also believe that festivals in general, and the Blue Jay Jazz Festival specifically, are an incredible gathering of community around amazing music – it brings joy to our lives, and solace to our souls.

Donate Today

We ask you to consider supporting
the Blue Jay Jazz Foundation today
with a donation – so we can bring live
music to you now and for years to come.