The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, normally held on the University of Idaho’s campus is one of the largest educational jazz festivals in the world, according to festival manager Joshua Skinner. […]
The University of Idaho’s Annual Jazz Festival is known for its concerts, workshops and of course, jazz. It is one of the largest educational Jazz Festivals in the country, attracting […]
University of Idaho’s 54th Annual Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival will be a worldwide virtual event in 2021.
Volunteer coordinators, Jonathan Stein and Ben Price, organize volunteers to manage the 3,600 students attending the University of Idaho’s Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, with a team of five graduate students […]
The University of Idaho sent out a health advisory Saturday stating a student from Henry M. Jackson High School, in Snohomish county, Washington, has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The email from the University of Idaho was sent to those affiliated with […]
Joshua Skinner, Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival manager, is known as the main person when it comes to Jazz Fest.
The Argonaut sat down with Skinner for a Q&A about some of the basics of Jazz Festival and Skinner’s background.
Doc Skinner sits at the head of a half-filled classroom of middle schoolers repeating to them the stories he has of Lionel Hampton. The students are silent except for the […]
Jazz Festival seeks volunteers The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is seeking volunteers for Feb. 22-23. The festival hosts thousands of student performers from across the region as well as jazz […]