{"id":259089,"date":"2026-08-04T18:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259089\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T18:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T18:16:08","slug":"top-bands-headline-scranton-jazz-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259089\/","title":{"rendered":"Top bands headline Scranton Jazz Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON, PA \u2014 The Scranton Jazz Festival is back, featuring two ticketed concerts, a free jazz walk and jazz brunches in the heart of the Electric City, Friday through Sunday, August 7-9 at various venues throughout Scranton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans jazz band the Dirty Dozen Brass Band will headline the festival on Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Theater at North, 1539 N. Main Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jazz bassist and jazz master Ron Carter will perform with the Emmy-nominated Scranton Jazz Festival (SJF) Big Band at 6 p.m. on Sunday at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple, 420 N. Washington Ave.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the headliners, more than 80 national, regional and local jazz, blues and world beat musicians will perform throughout the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Jazz Festival is made possible through partnerships with Blu Elefante Events, PA Jazz Alliance Inc., Lackawanna County Visitors Bureau, Lackawanna County and with the generous support of NROC, Fidelity Bank, community sponsors and media partners.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and a full schedule of performances, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrantonjazzfestival.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.scrantonjazzfestival.org<\/a>\u00a0and follow Scranton Jazz Festival on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, PA \u2014 The Scranton Jazz Festival is back, featuring two ticketed concerts, a free jazz walk and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[92378,178,180,18291,179],"class_list":["post-259089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-dirty-dozen-brass-band","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-jazz-festival","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}