Music Discovery Center – 2025 Quincy Square Jazz Festival
The Quincy Square Jazz Festival is a joint event, bringing together the resources and passion of the Music Discovery Center and Olympic College to relaunch the famous Olympic College Jazz Festival which has been in hiatus for the past 50 years. This year, the event will bring together 12 high school and middle school jazz bands to compete for the Ralph Mutchler Sweepstakes award that will be given annually to the top performing jazz band at the Quincy Square Jazz Festival.
Honoring the legacy of Quincy Jones’ discovery of music in Bremerton as a child, the Jazz Festival will start at Olympic College on February 7th. The top 2 high school and top middle school jazz bands will perform at the Jazz Gala that evening at the beautifully restored Roxy Theater in Bremerton. A guest performance will be provided by the Jazz Punishments from Seattle while the final results are determined by the team of adjudicators representing performers and educators from across Western Washington.
Your ticket will grant you admission to both the preliminaries at Olympic College and the Jazz Gala that night at the Roxy. A special section will be set aside for those who wish to support this event into the future with the tax-deductible purchase of Jazz Legacy Donor tickets. In addition, the Jazz Legacy Donors will be invited to a special pre-gala wine and appetizers reception on Quincy Square.
Welcome to the inaugural Quincy Square Jazz Festival and the first of what will become a must see event into the future!
Schedule of Events:
• Preliminaries – Olympic College Performing Arts Center, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
• Jazz Gala – Roxy Theatre, doors open at 6:30 pm