April 11 & 12, 2025
The Stan State Jazz Festival will be held Friday-Saturday April 11 – 12, 2025 at Snider Recital Hall on the Turlock Campus.
Registration is now closed.
Friday and Saturday festival daytime events feature performances from school jazz bands and combos, masterclasses from adjudicators and our 2025 headlining guest artist Eric Harland! The Saturday Night Concert will feature the 2025 Stanislaus County Music Educator’s Association High School Honor Jazz Band opening for the Eric Harland Voyager Trio. Tickets will be sold separately from registration and will be made available online soon. For more information please contact Festival Director and Coordinator of Jazz Studies, Barb Shinaver at bshinaver@csustan.edu.
2025 Guest Artist: Eric Harland Voyager Trio
Multi-Grammy Nominated and Winning Drummer, Eric Harland is the most "In demand drummer" of his generation. He has already been on over 500 recordings and multiple film scores at his age of 47. Eric has been recognized in the Boston Globe, New York Times, JazzTimes, Modern Drummer, All About Jazz, The New Yorker, DownBeat, L'uomo Vogue and other prominent publications. More in the Artist Bio section!
2025 Registration is closed.
Registration will be completely online this year.
Fee is $300 per band.
Rosters
Rosters are due before the event.
Last-minute drops are less important than any last-minute additions to the roster since we need a ROL for everyone prior to their participation in the festival.
Release of Liability
All participants must sign the Release of Liability form before the event on (TBA).
More Information
Contact the Jazz Director, Barb Shinaver bshinaver@csustan.edu
Eric Harland Voyager Trio
Multi-Grammy Nominated and Winning Drummer, Eric Harland is the most "In demand drummer" of his generation. He has already been on over 500 recordings and multiple film scores at his age of 47. Eric has been recognized in the Boston Globe, New York Times, JazzTimes, Modern Drummer, All About Jazz, The New Yorker, DownBeat, L'uomo Vogue and other prominent publications.
It has been his privilege to share the stage with masters such as Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, MyCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Terence Blanchard, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Savion Glover, SFJAZZ Collective and many others, as well as todays up and coming artist like Esperanza Spalding, Jane Monheit, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Stacie Orrico, Robert Glasper and so on. His current list of performing groups are "JAMES FARM" with Joshua Redman, "PRISM" with Dave Holland and Kevin Eubanks, "SANGAM" with Charles Lloyd and Zakir Hussain, "Charles Lloyd New Quartet", "OVERTONE" with Dave Holland, Jason Moran, Chris Potter. Chris Potter Circuits Trio, Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio D’ETE and "VOYAGER" Eric's own widely recognized group. But Eric doesn't stop there, he also manages to fit in many collaborations with world renowned artist like Les Claypool "PRIMUS", "DISPATCH" the band, KRS1, John Mayer, Gigi Hadid, Spike Lee, Steve Miller, Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson from "AMERICAN IDOL" and etc.
Eric Harland was the Resident Artistic Director at the SFJAZZ Center for the 2014-2016 Season. Also was Artist in Resident at the Monterey Jazz Festival 2014 Season. Harland also had the supreme privilege of being invited and attending President Barack Obama’s 2016 White House State Dinner in honor of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Through Harland's extensive travels, he has come to realize that "The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation." When Eric Harland contributes... his intention is therefore to create the highest musical experience so that every listener may have insight... into the musical moment.
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Updated: March 13, 2025