Band Registration

Band Registration for the 2025 Festival is now closed.

The deadline for requesting Fee Waivers has expired.

If you would like to be added to the wait list for the High School and High School (Private/Jazz Club) divisions, please complete the online registration form, and we will notify you of any band cancellations up to January 10th.

(Band and festival schedule will be announced closer to the festival.)

Qualifications

  • All band members younger than 22 (or enrolled in a minimum of 6 college credits)
  • The band performs in one or more of the styles described in the “Style Guide” (on the Traditional Jazz Educators Network Web site)
  • 4 to 9 musicians perform at a time (up to 12 for brass bands with a max of 7 horns)

$250 Band Registration Fee Includes:

  • All-events festival access for directors and individual band members
  • Adjudicated performances. (Piano, bass/guitar amps and drums/cymbals provided)
  • Recorded Feedback
  • Onstage Feedback clinic based on performance. (Piano, amps and drums provided)
  • Admission and pizza lunch for band directors and students to the noontime Jazz ‘n’ Pizza mentored jam
  • Closing Concert featuring multi-instrumentalist Gunhild Carling & the All-Star Clinicians Band
  • Showcase of Encore Performances and Awards
  • Group band photos available for purchase

Band Registration Form

You may print out and mail the registration form or fill it out online.

Band Registration for the 2025 Festival is now closed.

Register Online
Print Registration Form

Registration Fees

You may pay the band registration fees online by following the "Pay Registration Fees" link below. We also accept payment via Venmo or Check. Contact Patti Jones at pjones@sacjef.org for payment questions.

Checks written out to "SacJEF" can be mailed to:
Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation
P.O. Box 661763
Sacramento, CA, 95866.
(Please indicate your band name in the check memo field.)

If you are registering a single band for your school, use the “Band Registration (Single Band)” option.

If you are registering multiple bands from the same director/school, the first band is $250 and additional bands are $125 each.

Pay Registration Fees

Tune / Soloist Form

Please fill out this form no later than February 1st, 2025.

Tune / Soloist Form