For its 2009 season, Jazz Aspen Snowmass will change its locations and change and lengthen the dates of its June Festival, while its Labor Day Festival will be shortened by a day to compensate for the new resources being directed to the June Festival.

The venue change sees the festival's major artists playing in the Benedict Music Tent in Aspen's West End, which was borrowed from the classical Aspen Music Festival when Snowmass's June Festival launched in 1991. The festival has taken place at the Rio Grande Park in Aspen every previous summer going back to 2002.

Also, while it has usually spanned an extended weekend, the festival will expand its run-time from four days to seven, with concerts taking place on June 18-20 and June 25-28.  Read more »