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ANNAPOLIS

JAZZ & ROOTS FESTIVAL

November 7-16, 2025

2026 Festival dates are
November 6,7,8 and 13,14,15.

Artists will be announced in July.

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Perkutao

Afro Peruvian Jazz

William Kelly, Ph.D

Slavery and Indenture in Colonial Times:
A Lasting Legacy

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David & Ginger Hildebrand

 

Music for Lafayette: 1770-1820s

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Makaya
McCraven

Progressive Jazz

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USNA Superintendent’s Combo

Birth of the Cool: a Miles Davis Tribute

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Vanessa Ricci

Italian Contributions to American Jazz

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Akua Allrich
Tribute to Miriam Makeba & Nina Simone

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World Travelers & Hometown Heroes

TEN EVENTS ON TWO WEEKENDS IN

EASTPORT AND NEARBY NEIGHBORHOODS

2025 Festival Highlights

With his latest Blue Note album, Words Fall Short, Joshua Redman unveils a powerful new chapter in his storied career. The Joshua Redman Quartet will

perform at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in the Grand Finale of the 2025 Annapolis Jazz & Roots Festival on Sunday, November 16 at 7 PM.
(Read about his remarkable career and life choices and don't wait to get your tickets:

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The Joshua Redman Quartet

Annapolis Jazz & Roots Festival on Sunday, November 16 at 7 PM.

Founded in Annapolis, Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble is a world class troupe of dancers and musicians acclaimed by critics as they enthralled audiences in North America, Europe, Scandinavia and Asia. They also continue to delight school children in performances across Maryland. Fine musicianship? Got that. Great moves? Yes indeed! This is Roots Music and dance at its best. They'll show you (and you'll be amazed to see) how our traditional "American" music is rooted in cultures from far corners of the globe.

Join Footworks in celebrating the roots and branches of Americana music and dance from the driving fiddle tunes of Appalachian clogging to the syncopated beats of tap dance and the lyricism of Irish step dance. Grownups and kids are welcome to enjoy this free performance.

"A brilliant dance troupe...with one foot in

tradition and the other in innovation."

- The Irish Echo

"A fast paced, witty and exuberant exhibition...In short, a first rate show."

- The Washington Post

Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble
Annapolis Jazz & Roots Festival on Saturday, November 15 at 3 PM.

Alexis Tantau

November 7 Shows at 6 pm & 8 pm

Peerless Rens Club

JOSHUA REDMAN QUARTET 

November 16 Concert at 7 pm

Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts

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