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The San Antonio
Summer Art & Jazz Festival was established in 2003. The main mission of this entity at that time was to promote jazz
music to the public by presenting three great jazz artists featured in three free jazz concerts. The second mission was to
help support a worthy nonprofit organization by donating a portion of SAS Fest's proceeds to that organization. Originally
the first year's donations were focused on the American Cancer Association and the American Heart Association.
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2004 SAS Fest added three more concerts to its event and now presented six free jazz concerts featuring six great jazz artist.
SAS Fest commitment to educating and developing new audences for jazz music lead to the first Latin jazz night dedicating
one night exclusivley to presenting Latin Jazz Musical Artists. Two, SAS Fest also began to picked and exposed new local jazz
artist during its event, therefore helping give a new group a chance to be exposed to the public. Besides donating a portion
of its proceeds to the American Cancer Association SAS Fest now donated a portion of its proceeds to Any Baby Can, ABC. ABC is a nonprofit organization that provides services free of charge to families with children,
of birth through 12 years of age, who have serious illnesses, disabilities and/or special needs.
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2005 the San Antonio Summer Art & Jazz Festival named A.B.C. as its exclusive charitable beneficiary and also decided
to make promoting A.B.C. and its causes part of SAS Fest's mission. SAS Fest also decided to add to it mission to
help promote ABC and it causes. SAS Fest was also host to about 18 children from the Ronald McDonald House. Most of these
children have cancer and other illnesses. SAS Fest provided an area and soft drinks for these children at its event.
1n 2006 SAS became a three-day event and produced 10 free concerts to the public and
featured three-time Grammy Nominee Acoustic Alchemy to its event. This was a major mildstone in SAS Fest's evolution.
SAS Fest also introduced University Jazz Night and hosted the first midnight jazz concerts, which were held at Sunset Station
after the Friday night and Saturday night's concerts at Crockett Park. SAS Fest held its 1st yearly midnight jazz concert
party at the Club. The San Antonio Summer Art & Jazz Festival was now a premiere event in San Antonio, Texas.
In 2007 the San Antonio Summer Art & Jazz Festival featured Joseph
Vincelli, Brenna' and Freddie Ravel. Mr Ravel who co-wrote and co-produced a CD with Al Jarreau and George Benson that
won Two Grammy nominations in 2007. The appearence of Ravel at SAS Fest was another milestone as the festival was now quickly
becoming known for featuring the best performers in the jazz industry. SAS Fest provided dinner and a toy as as a keep sake
for several children from the Ronald McDonald House. SAS Fest also took a large leap forward in jazz education by providing
two free jazz workshops at its venue before the beginning of it's festival. These workshops were developed for young
student musicians in middle and high school and featured instruments associated with the style of jazz music. Although these
workshops were aimed at underprivileged school districts in San Antonio these workshops are open to any person interested
in wanting to learn more about jazz music. SAS Fest held its 2nd annual midnight jazz concert party at the Court at Sunset
Station.
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- To educate,
expose and promote great jazz music to the public
- To provide free workshops featuring jazz music to student musicians in middle and
high school
- To help raise money for Any Baby Can
- To help educate the public on what Any Baby Can does
for the community and help promote it's cause
- To host 25 children from St. Peter- St. Joseph
Children's Home
- To host 25 children
from Methodist Children's Home
- To make our community
a better place for everyone to live in
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2008 SAS Fest will host up-to 40 children from the Children's Shelter, a non- profit organization that provides temporary care and housing for children who
have been abandoned or abused. SAS provides a special covered VIP area, dinner and a toy as a keep sake for these children.
SAS Fest held its 3rd annual midnight jazz concert paty at the Lighthouse Cafe.
In 2009 SAS Fest will host up-to 50 children from St. Peter- St. Joseph Children's Home, a non-profit organizations that provide temporary care and housing for children who have been abandoned or abused. SAS provides
a special covered VIP area, dinner and a toy as a keepsake for these children. SAS Fest held its 4th annual midnight jazz
concert paty at Tycoon Flats .SAS Fest also implimented the frist yearly SAS Fest Art & Music Achievent
Award, which is presented to individuals who have given of their time, finantual resorces or wisdom to help promote and/or
educate persons in the art and/or music industry. In 2010 SAS Fest will host up-to 50 children; 25 again from St. Peter- St. Joseph Children's Home and 25 from Methodist Children's Home , two non-profit organizations that provide temporary care and housing for children who have been abandoned. SAS provides
a special covered VIP area, dinner and a toy as a keepsake for these children. And in 2010 SAS Fest will host "The
San Antonio Summer Art & Jazz FestIval Social Black Tie Event" (SAS Fest Gala 2010) with 100% of the
net proceeds "benefiting St. Peter-St Joseph Children's Home.
As with any new organization, the San Antonio Summer Art & Jazz Festival has evolved from
its original goal and taken on several more missions. From presenting a two-day event featuring three-great jazz groups to
a three-day event featuring anywhere from twelve to fourteen free great jazz concerts. From just promoting jazz to exposing
and educating the public on the various types of jazz including straight/ahead standard to smooth and Latin jazz etc ot also providing
free workshops to student musicians in middle and high school. From just donating a portion of it's proceeds to a worthy
causes to becoming affiliated with several fantastic non-profit childrens organizations to also helping to promote their great
causes and hosting 50 homeless children by providing a special
covered VIP area, dinner and a toy as a keep sake for these children and hosting the "San Antonio Summer Art
& Jazz FestIval Social Black Tie Event" benefeting St. Peter-St. Joseph Children's Home.
The San Antonio Summer Art & Jazz
Festival with the support of its sponsors is a great event that makes this world a much better place for all of us to
live.
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