Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival Advisory Board Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: IJC MG 029

Staff Only

Content Description

This collection includes materials related to Review of Prospect list and plans for reaching 2013 goals, Projected Budget FY 2013, Advisory Board Agenda Notes/Minutes, Jazz Festival Board Members, Development Report Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Strategic Plan, Individual Giving to Jazz Festival, Benefits of Hamp's Medallion Society, Advisory Board By laws, Year End Report 2012, Invitation to the 2011 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Projected Budget FY 2012, Advisory Board Agenda, Mentor And Master, Partners Shaping Tomorrow 2012 Activities, Event & After Hours, Lionel Hamton jazz fest Phone Application, 2012 Concert Schedule, Year End Report 2014, Jazz Archives and Website Overview, Minutes and Brefings, Mentors And Masters, Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival.

Dates

Creation: 2007-2014

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research

Biographical / Historical

Since the 1960s, the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival has brought jazz masters to University of Idaho with elementary, junior high, high school and college students to share and celebrate a truly American art form. The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival has grown from a one-day event to an amazing three-day experience!

The first University of Idaho Jazz Festival took place in 1967, with a dozen student groups and one guest artist. The festival continued to grow from there — erupting onto the national stage in 1982, when thousands of students and spectators came to hear Ella Fitzgerald.

In 1984, the festival’s most important relationship began when Lionel Hampton joined the excitement in Moscow. Inspired by the enthusiasm of the students, Hamp pledged his support to the festival and, in 1985, the festival was renamed in his honor.