A Touching Sendoff

Over 100 friends and fans joined us on February 5 to say a musical goodbye to Litchfield Performing Arts co-founder Arthur Muir. Art passed away on January  22nd, and LPA has established a jazz camp scholarship fund in his memory. Gifts are still coming in, and the fund now stands

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Litchfield Jazz Camp featured in Downbeat Magazine

The Litchfield Jazz Camp has a full page feature in the March issue of Downbeat magazine, the International Jazz Camp Guide issue. Click here to download and read the article!

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Celebrating the Life of Arthur J. Muir Co-Founder of Litchfield Performing Arts

Arthur Muir left this world on January 22st just three weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. He would have been 84 in May. Before he died at his home in Goshen which he shared with his wife and love of his life, Vita, and his daughter Lindsey and her

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Thank you for you support in our annual appeal

Thank you to our 2016 donors.  It is because of your generosity this year that disadvantaged youth are able to access the life-changing experiences here each summer. We are looking forward to another successful, music-filled year. If you have not yet had the chance to make a contribution, there is

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Get involved in 2017

Now is a great time to start thinking about ways to get involved for 2017.  We have many different types of opportunities available. We offer summer internships, sponsorship and advertising opportunities for our business fans, vendor opportunities for artists and chefs, and of course volunteer opportunities abound – many of

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Litchfield Jazz Fest featured on WNPR.org

“Litchfield Jazz Festival (LJF) — a then at-risk brainchild of the fearless cultural crusader Vita Muir — would survive its infancy to become an annual crown jewel among Connecticut’s premier summer arts and entertainment events. For that matter, who back then would have bet that what seemed like Muir’s noble

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