Events

2024 - 2025

Holiday Swing Dance

Friday, 20 December 2024 @ 7:30pm

The Ballroom at Best Western Plus Hotel – Keene, NH

The Keene Jazz Orchestra invites you to brighten your holiday season spirits with the classic sounds of an authentic big-band dance. Celebrate and enjoy the brilliance of an 18-piece band fronted by returning favorite regional vocalist Leila Teitleman, sharing the music of Count Basie, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman, as well as a variety of seasonal swingers and holiday classics.  

Music fans of all ages are welcome to dance and be joyful in the company of a live swing orchestra. Bar and food service will be available through Tempesta’s  restaurant at the Best Western.

Tickets are on sale at Toadstool Bookstore & Prime Roast in Keene NH as well as online at keenejazzorchestra.org beginning on November 26, 2024.

KJO is a 501(c)(3) certified non-profit organization whose programming supports live music and jazz education in the Monadnock Region. We thank you for your support! 

Keene Jazz Orchestra is generously supported by the Barbara M. and Robert C. Cummings Fund for the Arts of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.

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2023 - 2024

Vocal Jazz Workshop

Friday, 7 June 2024 @ 4:00pm

Keene Middle School Band Room – Keene, NH

Free Jazz Vocal Workshop! KJO's good friend, Bella Holtz,

Annual Spring Concert

Saturday, 8 June 2024 @ 7:30pm

Keene Middle School Auditorium – Keene, NH


Featuring renowned trumpeter, arranger, composer and educator Greg Hopkins.

Valentine Swing Dance

Saturday, 17 February 2024 @ 7:30pm

Ballroom at the Best Western – Keene, NH

KHS Jazz Invitational

Friday, 26 January 2024 @ 7:00pm

Keene High School Auditorium – Keene, NH


Holiday Swing Dance

Saturday, 16 December 2023 @ 7:30pm

The Ballroom at Best Western Plus Hotel – Keene, NH

2022 - 2023

Spring Concert

Saturday, 3 June 2023

Special performances by NEA Jazz Master, living jazz legend, and bebop vocal pioneer Sheila Jordan.  Sheila will be singing small group and big band numbers with arrangements by Amherst Jazz Professor Jeff Holmes.  Joining Sheila and the KJO with be acclaimed pianist and Berklee College of Music Professor Russell Hoffman, who has performed with Billy Hart, James Moody, Joe Zawinul, and Scott Mullett. The program also includes a mix of classic and contemporary works by Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Buddy Rich, and Les Hooper.

KHS Jazz Invitational

Friday, 27 January 2023 @ 7:00pm

Keene High School Auditorium – Keene, NH

Holiday Swing Dance

Saturday, 17 December 2022 @ 7:30pm

The Ballroom at Best Western Plus Hotel – Keene, NH

Sheila Jordan

Sheila Jordan

Please consider making a donation in Scott’s honor to the 

Scott Mullett Fund for 

Jazz Education

You can also donate via mail

by sending a check payable to:

 Keene Jazz Orchestra

39 Ridgewood Ave

Keene NH 03431

memo Scott Mullett Fund