Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band

Name: Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band
Start: 2025-04-06T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 417 W Magnolia Street, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80521

Schedule

Sun, 06 Apr, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

417 W Magnolia Street, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Colorado 80521 | Fort Collins, CO

General on sale begins July 17, 2024 at 1 p.m.
Season package renewals begin May 29–July 8, 2024.
New package orders begin July 9, 2024 at 1 p.m.
The Julia Keefe Indigenous Big Band (JKIBB) is an ensemble of Native and Indigenous jazz musicians from across Indian Country. Performing pieces from their under-appreciated predecessors in jazz, like Mildred Bailey (Coeur d’Alene) and Jim Pepper (Kaw/Mvskoke) alongside works by contemporary Indigenous composers, the band spotlights a vibrant, long-standing tradition of Indigenous improvised music today.
Led by the celebrated vocalist and luminary Julia Keefe (Nez Perce), the ensemble brings charisma, passion, and purpose to every stage, leaving audiences both inspired and educated. Premiering at Washington Center for the Performing Arts in 2022, the band quickly gained a reputation for deepening and challenging our understanding of the “uniquely American” art form known as jazz. JKIBB features a “who’s who” of Indigenous bandleaders today, including Mali Obomsawin (Odanak Abenaki), Delbert Anderson (Diné), Chantil Dukart (Tsimshian), and Ed Littlefield (Tlingit) among others, and headlined the 2024 Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.