{"id":269315,"date":"2026-08-21T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269315\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:58:08","slug":"jazz-festivities-in-pittsburgh-monroeville-pijf-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269315\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Festivities in Pittsburgh &#8211; Monroeville, PIJF and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We&#8217;re coming up onto the jazz festival season here in Pittsburgh, from Monroeville to the streets of Pittsburgh and more. We play some of the music from those artists this hour and also sharing some stories about what is in store with the Monroeville Jazz Festival and\u00a0 the Pittsburgh International Jazz festival, two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival, downtown Pittsburgh, including an opening night concert with Samara Joy on Friday the 18th followed by two full days in downtown Pittsburgh with multiple stages and a wide array of jazz performers from around the world. On the show, we hear music from guitarist Mark Strickland, playing at the Monroeville Jazz Fest, Plus Dwayne Dolphin, at Monroeville and also in the weekend street jazz festival, downtown. We also hear from other PIJF stars, including Sean Jones, Lalah Hathaway, Orrin Evans, Bernard \u201cPretty\u201d Purdie, drummer Jae Sinnett and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Meanwhile, a lot of other Jazz events continue to go on including at City Winery in the strip which features trumpeter<a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.citywinery.com\/event\/bria-skonberg-v27k7t\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bria Skonberg<\/a> on the last Sunday of the month. Pittsburgh native &#8211; drummer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzum.org\/jazzcentral-jazz-events-from-wzum\/2026\/08\/28\/con-alma-weekend-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Kirk returns to Con Alma for a visit August 28th<\/a>. Jazz Art Jazz at Arts Landing continues on the 25th with drummer, Reid Hoyson and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wzum.org\/jazzcentral-jazz-events-from-wzum\/2026\/08\/25\/u741mrrtf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> the Reid Hosyon Project<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Find details about all of these live things at the Jazz central calendar at wzum.org. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The Scene &#8211; Thursday night at 6, Friday and Saturday at noon, Sunday at 5 on WZUM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re coming up onto the jazz festival season here in Pittsburgh, from Monroeville to the streets of Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-269315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269315","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=269315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}