Get involved
Volunteer
Help welcome the community and support the festival weekend.
Join us July 10–11, 2026 at Court Square for a free downtown celebration of jazz, roots, local talent, youth arts, and community connection, presented by Blues To Green.
Help welcome the community and support the festival weekend.
Bring your food, art, or goods into the downtown festival experience.
Partner with Blues To Green to help sustain free public culture in Springfield.
Join the sustaining membership community helping keep the music free.
Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival is presented by Blues To Green, the nonprofit organization behind the festival’s larger year-round work in youth arts, cultural storytelling, and community connection.
The festival brings people together in the heart of Springfield for a joyful weekend shaped by music influenced by the African diaspora, local artistry, family-friendly activity, and downtown energy.
It’s designed to be welcoming to first-time visitors, longtime festivalgoers, families, neighbors, artists, and supporters alike. The point is simple: free public culture, strong local spirit, and a city center alive with music.
Through the festival and its larger mission, Blues To Green uses music and the arts to celebrate cultural heritage, support youth learning, strengthen belonging, and honor the living legacy of Charles Neville.
Expect a weekend shaped by live performance, community presence, youth arts, local vendors, and the kind of atmosphere that makes downtown Springfield feel wide open and alive.
Take a closer look at the 2026 festival artists and explore the dedicated lineup page for full artist cards, bios, and links.
Make room for student performers, local creatives, and community voices as part of the full festival weekend.
Music is at the center, but the weekend also brings food, vendors, storytelling, gathering, and the shared feeling of being downtown together.
The festival takes place July 10–11, 2026 at Court Square in downtown Springfield.
The essential links to find your way around the festival website and site.
There are many links, these ones are very helpful though.
Supporting Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival means supporting free public culture in downtown Springfield and the larger year-round mission of Blues To Green.
The festival is free and open to everyone. Your support helps sustain the music, youth arts education, cultural storytelling, and community-centered work that make it possible.
There are a few clear ways for people to support the weekend and the work around it.
The Blues To Green Jazz Club supports the full mission of Blues To Green, the nonprofit behind the Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival.
The Blues To Green Jazz Club is a sustaining membership community supporting the work behind the Springfield Jazz & Roots Festival. The Festival is free for everyone. Jazz Club members help keep the music free while supporting youth arts education, cultural storytelling, and the larger mission of Blues To Green.
This is not a private version of the festival. It is a mission-based way for supporters to participate more deeply in the life of Blues To Green while helping sustain free cultural experiences in Springfield.
Memberships begin at $100. Lounge access begins at $250.
