Like jazz music? Looking for something different to do this weekend? The 20th Anniversary Litchfield Jazz Festival is August 7, 8 and 9 in Goshen, CT at the Goshen Fairgrounds. For three days, jazz greats and emerging talents will showcase their music and entertain festival goers. Along with great jazz, there will be a food and drink, a kids zone for families, and a tent of local artists and crafters.
According to their website, "for over its 19 years, the Festival has had the honor of presenting jazz titans---musicians like Jimmy Heath, James Moody, Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Wayne Shorter and Toots Thielemans. We were also blessed to have heard with you some of the field's finest players just before they passed away-Tommy Flanagan, Ray Charles, Thomas Chapin, Tito Puente, and Stanley Turrentine. And, we have had the thrill of discovering the stars of tomorrow- Diana Krall, Brad Mehldau, Lizz Wright and Jane Monheit, to name a few."
Photograph of Onaje Allan Gumbs by Nathan Turner from the 2013 Litchfield Jazz Festival.