One of Hawaii’s premier music festivals returns after being postponed three times due to COVID-19. The ninth annual Big Island Jazz and Blues Festival takes place June 4 from 5-9 p.m.
The event will be celebrated with Grammy-winning jazz, blues, rock, zydeco, Cajun and soul musicians taking the beachfront stage at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. Performers Zydeko with Wayne Toups, Canned Heat Leadman Dale Splading a Hawai’i Island DEBUT, NEA Jazz Master and Big Chief of Mardi Gras Saxophonist Donald Harrison, The Iguanas from New Orleans, Skip Martin from Kool and the Gang and DAZZ Band, Saxophonist Masters Javon Jackson and Eric Marienthal, John Keawe, Sarah Bethany and more.
The June 4 festival is preceded by a JazzFest dinner at the Redwater Cafe in Waimea on June 2, followed by a second JazzFest dinner on June 3 at the Copper Bar at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, which will offer a taste and encounters with artists.
For more information and tickets visit bigislandjazzandbluesfestival.com
