Scranton Jazz Festival 2025 — Marko Marcinko on ArtScene

Marko Marcinko — Drummer/Pianist, Founder & Artistic Director of the Scranton Jazz Festival and Leader of the Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band — speaks with Erika Funke about the 20th anniversary of the SJF, to be held August 1, 2 & 3, 2025, in downtown Scranton.

The Saturday headliner is Tower of Power at the Scranton Cultural Center at 8 p.m. Sunday at the Cultural Center, it's the Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band under Marcinko's direction with special guests including French jazz vocalist Ilona Knopfler and jazz trumpeter Carl Fischer, beginning at 6:00 p.m.

There will be more than 80 musicians in venues throughout downtown Scranton with the Jazz Walk on Friday and Saturday nights and Jazz Brunches on Sunday.

For information visit scrantonjazzfestival.org. (Listen to the full 20:43 ArtScene with Erika Funke podcast on WVIA.)