LOCAL ARTISTS:

• Karrie Pavish Anderson is no stranger to Spenard Jazz Fest. Aside from being our 2021 social media coordinating queen, Karrie also debuted The Climbing Project LIVE!, based on The Climbing Project, a pandemic-inspired global collaborative chorale version (and documentary) of her song Climbing, that she debuted as part of the 2020 Hunker Down Edition of Spenard Jazz Fest.

• Mark Manners is one of Alaska's premier guitarists, as well as an accomplished composer.  As a faculty member of the Alaska Jazz Workshop, Mark has performed in the annual AJW faculty concerts with fellow instructor John Damberg,  Rolling Stone trombonist Michael Davis, as well as other jazz masters including Maynard Ferguson's baritone saxophonist Denis DiBlasio, amongst others.

• Melissa "JazzMom" Fischer is a deeply-accomplished performer with a musical pedigree much too long to sum up here. On top of performing weekly at such venues as Sullivan's Steakhouse, Platinum Jaxx, and the…