March 25 2025
Student Music Scholarship

The Northwest Jazz Festival (also known as the Lewiston Jazz Festival) will take place on August 22 & 23, 2025.  The Festival Board of Directors began planning for this year’s event last September, shortly after the end of the 2024 festival.  Not only does our festival feature international and local musicians, but for the last few years we have incorporated a component that promotes music education, thanks to the generosity of Thomas Burrows. Mr. Burrows endowed the festival with $10,000 allowing for the continuum of a scholarship for 10 years. Carol Calato, Chairperson is honored and humbled to say that Mr. Burrows requested that the scholarship be made in my name as a long-time board member and advocate of music education." 

The festival Board of Directors is once again pleased to offer a $1,000 scholarship to an Erie or Niagara County high school /college student beginning or continuing full time music studies at a college or university.

As Chairperson of the Board and of the scholarship program, arol Calato is esastic to offer students this opportunity.  The only requirement is that the student be accepted at a college to study music or already be enrolled in a college music program.  It is not necessary that the student is enrolled in jazz studies.  One scholarship winner will be chosen by a committee of qualified judges.

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The online application and scholarship link can be found at https://www.lewistonjazz.com/scholarship.

If you have any further questions, please contact the Jazz Festival office (c/o the Niagara River Region Chamber of Commerce) at 716-754-9500 or email: [email protected].