海角直播app Brookings Optimist Jazz Festival
Instrumental and vocal jazz ensembles of all levels are cordially invited to participate in the 20th annual 海角直播app/Brookings Optimist Jazz Festival. The festival will be held on Thursday, April 9, 2026, at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.
Registration will open during the fall 2025 semester.
Tickets are not require to attended performances.
Performances will not be livestreamed.
Schedule is subject to change.
Founders Recital Hall 鈥 Vocal Jazz
Time | School |
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8 a.m. | Brookings High School Nothin鈥 But Treble |
8:30 a.m. | Madison High School Mad Voices |
9 a.m. | Brookings High School Swing Republic |
9:30 a.m. | Miller High Schol Vocal Jazz |
10 a.m. | Brookings High School Smooth Spectrum |
10:30 a.m. | Mount Vernon High School Vocal Jazz |
11 a.m. | Tea Area High School Vocal Jazz |
Noon | Nebraska Vocal Jazz Project Concert |
1:30 p.m. | Sioux Valley High School Vocal Jazz |
2 p.m. | Aberdeen Central High School Vox 25 |
2:30 p.m. | Elk Point Jefferson High School Momentum |
3:15 p.m. | Aberdeen Central High School Vocal Nation |
Band Room 110 鈥 Class B and Middle Schools
Time | School |
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9:30 a.m. | Flandreau High School Jazz Band |
10 a.m. | Mickelson Middle School Jazz Band |
10:40 a.m. | Miller High School Jazz Band |
11:10 a.m. | Bridgewater Emery High School Jazz Band |
11:40 a.m. | Mount Vernon High School Jazz Band |
1:30 p.m. | Tea Area Middle School Jazz Band |
2 p.m. | Lennox Middle School Jazz Band |
2:30 p.m. | Mitchell Middle School Jazz Band |
3 p.m. | Elk Point Jefferson Middle School Jazz Band |
3:35 p.m. | Elk Point Jefferson High School Jazz Band |
Larson Memorial Concert Hall 鈥 Class AA
Time | School |
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9 a.m. | Worthington High School Trojan Jazz! |
9:30 a.m. | Tea Area High School Jazz Band |
10 a.m. | Roosevelt High School Jazz I |
10:30 a.m. | O鈥橤orman High School Jazz I |
11 a.m. | Washington High School Jazz I |
Noon | 海角直播app Jazz I with guest artists |
1:30 p.m. | Mitchell High School Jazz I |
2 p.m. | Brookings High School Jazz I |
2:30 p.m. | The Urbandale Jazz Experience |
3 p.m. | Rapid City Stevens Silver Jazz |
3:30 p.m. | Lincoln Jazz Ensemble |
4 p.m. | Lincoln Jazz Collective |
Fishback Studio Theatre 鈥 Class A, AAII, AAIII
Time | School |
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9 a.m. | Roosevelt High School Jazz II |
9:30 a.m. | Washington High School Jazz II |
10 a.m. | Madison High School 9th Street Jazz |
10:30 a.m. | Lennox High School |
11 a.m. | Pipestone Area High School Jazz Band |
11:30 a.m. | Mitchell High School Jazz II |
1:30 p.m. | O鈥橤orman High School Jazz II |
2 p.m. | Lincoln Jazz the Third |
2:30 p.m. | Dakota Valley High School Jazz Band |
3 p.m. | Pierre T.F. Riggs Emerald Jazz |
3:30 p.m. | Rapid City Stevens Blue Jazz |
4 p.m. | Brookings High School Jazz III |
4:30 p.m. | Rapid City Stevens Cadet Jazz |
5 p.m. | Brookings High School Jazz II |
Guest Artists

Nicole McCabe is a saxophonist, composer and educator who works and lives in Los Angeles. Her new album, "A Song to Sing," marks her vibrant debut on Colorfield Records. It follows "What Is My Porpoise?", the latest from her electro-jazz duo Dolphin Hyperspace, on Dox Records, and "Mosaic," her fourth album as a bandleader, on Ghost Note Records. A prolific performer and creative force in the local jazz scene, McCabe鈥檚 recent collaborators include Jeff Parker, Justin Brown, Louis Cole, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ari Hoenig, Dan Weiss, Sasha Berliner and more.

David Thorne Scott is a jazz singer, songwriter, composer and teacher. His current creative project is "Animal Spirits," a new musical about economist John Maynard Keynes, which examines the role of love and art in a world of war, ideological polarization and economic inequality. Scott wrote the book, music and lyrics.
Scott鈥檚 album "" explores the boundary between Jazz and Americana. Collaborators on the album include Grammy-award winners Paula Cole, Peter Eldridge and Sara Caswell, as well as jazz luminaries Jason Palmer and Walter Smith III. wrote that Scott 鈥渆xplores the intersection of Jazz and Americana, city and country, instrumentation and lyrics to create lush compositions and covers that are unifying, and healing, in their beauty.鈥
Scott鈥檚 album "" was named a "Top 5 CD of the Year" by the Jazz Education Journal. Cadence Magazine said, "He phrases like a saxophone player and is as slippery and hip as the young Mel Torm茅." Critic Herb Wong wrote, 鈥淚 haven鈥檛 been this moved by a performance of 鈥楩or All We Know鈥 since Carmen McRae.鈥
Scott sings and plays piano on his jazz/rock crossover album ",鈥 produced by multiplatinum producer Anthony Resta.
Scott is the producer and host of Songwriters in the Round, a Boston-area live performance series that has showcased over 100 singer/songwriters.
His composition 鈥淚 See You鈥 was featured in the television show "The Blacklist" on NBC.
Scott has been a soloist with the Boston Pops, the Capital Jazz Orchestra, the Melrose Symphony and the Cape Symphony.
Scott is the bassist and founder of the , comprised of singer/instrumentalists who harmonize while playing bass, guitar, piano and drums. The group's repertoire is drawn from swing hits of the 1930s and 1940s by artists like Glenn Miller, the Nat King Cole Trio, the Andrews Sisters and the Pied Pipers.
is a jazz collective that explores the creative vision of its four members: Scott (vocals and bass), Mark Shilansky (piano and vocals), Sara Caswell (violin) and Eric Byers (guitar). They play original jazz/Americana songs with mythological overtones and plenty of collective improvisation.
As a member of the vocal quartet , called "a 21st-century Manhattan Transfer鈥" by the Boston Globe, he sang and played trumpet. Scott was an arranger, performer and founder of the vocal group . And he did two tours with the legendary vocal group the , where he sang the high lead part and played bass.
Scott is professor of voice at .
