The 2025 UNO/OPA Jazz Festival will take place at UNO on Friday, February 28 and at the Holland Center in downtown Omaha on Saturday, March 1.
Friday will include daytime professional performances and clinics. The Friday evening headliner performance will feature James Morrison, the Metropolitan Area Youth Jazz Orchestra (MAYJO) and the Great Plains Great Big Band featuring professional guest artists and adjudicators.
Saturday will feature a clinic presented by Paquito D'Rivera and an evening performance by MAYJO and the UNO Jazz Ensemble featuring Paquito D'Rivera and other special guest artists.
Dr. Pete Madsen, Professor of Music/Coordinator of Jazz Studies/Trombone Teacher at University of Nebraska at Omaha, joined Jazz in the Afternoon host Chris Cooke for a live on-air conversation on February 18th about Paquito D’Rivera’s upcoming concert performances at the Jazz Festival.
Click on the link to listen to the interview.
(Recording engineer: Chris Cooke/KIOS.)
For more information you may visit www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/community-engagement/jazz-festival.php