In 2021 Jazz Aspen Snowmass will expand its mid-summer JAS Academy collaboration with the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami to include the new “Combo/Small Ensemble Sessions.”
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Jazz Aspen Snowmass will require that all attendees at the JAS June Experience and JAS Café concerts be either fully vaccinated against the novel coronavirus or provide proof of a current negative test, the nonprofit announced Tuesday.
Following recent recommendations by Pitkin County and mirroring the policy adopted by Belly Up Aspen, Jazz Aspen will devote at least 80% of venue capacity to fully vaccinated concert-goers and 20% to those with negative tests.
“This policy is intended to provide the safest possible environment and most normal concert experience possible for artists, audiences and staff,” reads the announcement.
As a result of the new policy, which will note require masks or distancing, capacity will be significantly increased for both the June Experience (June 24-27) and the JAS Café series (June 18-Aug. 15). Ticket updates are expected to follow soon.
Etienne Charles, pictured here at the 2019 Jazz Aspen June Experience, will return to the JAS Cafe this summer.
It’s been a long time coming. Live music is returning this summer as the post-vaccine season of cultural rebirth in Aspen is starting to take shape.
The three premiere live music venues and festival producers – Belly Up Aspen, the Aspen Music Festival and School and Jazz Aspen Snowmass – are all returning.
Belly Up has been shuttered since March 2020 when the novel coronavirus shut down the live music and touring industries. Jazz Aspen last summer canceled its June Experience and Labor Day Experience and hosted an outdoor truncated version of its JAS Café series. The Aspen Music Festival, for the first time in its 70-plus years, canceled the 2020 summer season and scuttled plans for a winter series.