2025 Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival @ Esther Short Park in Vancouver WA | 18 Bands, 70 Wines, 20 Artists & Crafters

From our sponsors:
2025 Vancouver Wine & Jazz Festival
August 22-24, 2025
3-9pm | $25-110 | All Ages
Purchase Tickets: vancouverwinejazz.com

Esther Short Park
605 Esther St, Vancouver, WA 98660

• The Festival is “. . . the largest festival of its kind in the Northwest. . .” (ABC TV KATU 2) and was awarded southwest Washington Event of the Year by the Washington Festivals and Events Association.

MUSIC: The 2025 Festival features nationally acclaimed jazz, blues, and gospel bands including: legendary Latin jazz trumpeter and 10-time GRAMMY-winner Arturo Sandoval, vocal jazz & gospel icons Take 6, blues harmonica virtuoso Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, singer Shemekia Copeland, pianist David Benoit, guitarist Stanley Jordan, and more.  18 concerts are scheduled for the 3-day festival.

WINE:  Attendees can enjoy more than 70 Northwest wines, including varietals from Wahluke Slope, Columbia Valley, and Walla Walla regions.  Maryhill Winery is the Festival Wine Sponsor.  Craft beers are also on tap.  Bull Run Whiskey is the Festival Whiskey Sponsor.

ART: Artists from Washington, Oregon, and California will be selling their art, including watercolor, acrylic, and oil painting, textiles, sculpture, photography, pottery, mixed media, and jewelry.

FOOD & MORE: Restaurants from Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver provide a lovely variety of cuisine, such as Northwest crab cakes & seafood, Greek gyros, Turkish cuisine, southern BBQ, charcuterie, desserts, and more.  Commercial exhibitors are also at the Festival.

ABOUT:  The Festival attracts an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people each year.  “For this 25th anniversary, our goal was to present a music lineup of GRAMMY-winning jazz, blues, and gospel icons, national acts, young talent, and stellar Northwest musicians. We hit that mark,” says Dr. Maria Manzo, Festival Director.  The Festival was awarded Southwest Washington ‘2023 Event of the Year’ by the Washington Festivals and Events Association and received a 2024 grant from the Paul G. Allen ArtsFund Foundation.  “It is gratifying to see the Festival recognized as an important jazz and cultural arts event in the Pacific Northwest,” she added.