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Iowa City Jazz Festival
Iowa City, IA · Music
- When
- July 2–4, 2027
- Where
- Downtown Iowa City, 325 E Washington St · Iowa City · IA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Downtown Iowa City closes its streets around Washington and Clinton for a free three day jazz festival each summer, part of the nonprofit Summer of the Arts season. The festival has run for more than 25 years and puts touring and regional acts on two outdoor stages.
The history within reach
She passed Pete Maravich's 3,667 points, the all-time NCAA Division I mark, set in 1970 without a three-point line, on a logo three from near halfcourt.
- Herbert Hoover9.4 mi
Born in a two-room cottage his blacksmith father built, orphaned at nine, and gone west to become a mining engineer and then the man who fed Belgium.
The two-room cottage where Hoover was born, the blacksmith shop like his father's and the hillside where he is buried all sit within a short walk of the library, dedicated in 1962 on his 88th birthday with Harry Truman in the audience.
The seven Amana Colonies villages, settled by German communal Pietists in the 1850s, mark autumn with a four-day Oktoberfest of German food, beer gardens, and folk dancing centered at the Festhalle Barn.
Hillary Clinton's first attempt at Snapchat, filmed at arm's length on the Cedar River bank in July 2015, produced four words delivered directly into the lens.