{"id":804,"date":"2022-08-23T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/?page_id=804"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:38:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tarleton Jazz Festival<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0The 2026 Tarleton Jazz Festival will take place on April 24-25, 2026. This year the festival will have performance spots available for both Friday and Saturday during the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration for the 2026 Tarleton Jazz Festival is now <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1isMBTWn7ef8cmLU3PZDIQkqBIDWNTOCyYPbGAifarVI\/edit\">OPEN<\/a>! Please contact Dr. William Ford for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Tarleton Jazz Festival<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tarleton Jazz Festival invites high school and middle school ensembles from across the state of Texas in a celebration of jazz. Each ensemble performs for nationally-recognized jazz educators and get feedback in the form of written comments, audio comments while performing, and a clinic. The ensembles are then ranked by class, with one winner per class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students participating in the festival get free admission that includes watching other ensembles perform, attending clinics, and a seat at the awards concert. The awards concert features the Tarleton Jazz Ensemble with a featured guest artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">60th Annual Tarleton Jazz Festival Registration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration for the 2026 Tarleton Jazz Festival is now <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1isMBTWn7ef8cmLU3PZDIQkqBIDWNTOCyYPbGAifarVI\/edit\">OPEN<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarleton Jazz Festival \u00a0The 2026 Tarleton Jazz Festival will take place on April 24-25, 2026. This year the festival will have performance spots available for both Friday and Saturday during &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":580,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-804","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/author\/","display_name":""},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 23, 2022","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 23, 2022 6:19 pm","modified":"Updated on October 3, 2025 12:38 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/804\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/jazz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}