Festival
2025 Bix Festival Dates
Mark your calendars! The 2025 Bix Jazz Festival will take place from July 31st through August 2nd, with additional events on July 30th and August 3rd.
2025 Schedule
2025 ScheduleTENTATIVE SCHEDULE, SUBJECT TO CHANGE
2025 Ticket Information
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Or you can call our office at (563) 324-7170. Mail in ticket order forms coming soon
Hotel Reservation Information
Rhythm City Casino Hotel
For hotel reservations at the Rhythm City Hotel, call the hotel directly at (563) 328-8000 and ask for the Bix Jazz Festival group block for your special rate.*
*You must call the hotel directly to obtain the discounted rate
Rhythm City Casino Resort
7077 Elmore Avenue
Davenport, IA 52807
(563) 328-8000
Quality Inn in Davenport
For hotel reservations at the Quality Inn in Davenport, call the hotel directly at (563) 386-8336 and ask for the Bix Jazz Festival group block for your special rate.* The hotel is an easy, 4-min. drive to the west of the Casino & festival.
*You must call the hotel directly to obtain the discounted rate
Quality Inn & Suites
6605 N. Brady Street
Davenport, Iowa 52806
(563) 386-8336
Hampton Inn & Suites
For hotel reservations at the Hampton Inn & Suites, use this link for a special rate: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/bixjazzfestaugust2025/
Hampton Inn & Suites
5290 Utica Ridge Road
Davenport, IA 52807
(563) 441-0001
OTHER HOTEL OPTIONS: https://visitquadcities.com/stay/hotels
2025 Festival Bands
- Graystone Monarchs … Led by Quad Cities drummer Josh Duffee, this big band plays music from the 1920s and 1930s made famous by Jean Goldkette, Paul Whiteman, Cab Calloway, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and others.
- Chicago Cellar Boys … Tightly-arranged small band jazz; unusual repertoire; outstanding ensemble and solo playing.
- Mike Davis’ New Wonders … Vintage jazz of the 1920s played and sung in an authentic style.
- Bix Youth Band … The best of the best young musicians from educational programs throughout the Quad Cities, performing with professional musicians from the festival.
- El Dorado Jazz Band … Traditional New Orleans Jazz; stomps, rags, marches, blues and barrelhouse as played in Southern California in the 1960s.
- Jazz-O-Maniacs … Riverboat Jazz of the 1920s in the tradition of Charles Creath, Fate Marable, Tony Catalano -- and of course Bix Beiderbecke!
With the changes to the daily schedule, we are also able to add the Mortonia Seven. This band first performed at the festival in 2021. The personnel is slightly different now, but the ensemble still performs the music of Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton and his contemporaries. Led by New Orleans pianist Kris Tokarski, the band includes Dave Kosmyna, cornet; Colin Hancock, trombone; Dave Bennett, clarinet; T.J. Müller, banjo and guitar; Steve Pikal, string bass; and Hal Smith, drums.
In addition to the Mortonia Seven, we are adding St. Louis vocalist Valerie Kirchoff, a/k/a Miss Jubilee to the program. She will sing with T.J. Muller’s Jazz-O-Maniacs and we are sure that she will be a guest on other sets as well.
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More than 100 volunteers perform the vast array of tasks required to stage a festival the size and length of the Bix Jazz Festival. More are always needed. If you'd like to help call the B.B.M.S. office at (563) 324-7170.