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2025 Black Hawk College Jazz Festival
Friday, Apr 25 // 12:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join us Friday, April 25 for the 2025 Black Hawk College Jazz Festival featuring guest artist Kirby Fellis.
Free admission for all events!
Festival schedule
Careers in the Music Industry
Noon to 1 p.m.
Quad-Cities Campus
Building 4, Room 101
Blues Workshop
1-2 p.m.
Quad-Cities Campus
Building 4, Room 115
Open Rehearsal
2-3 p.m.
Quad-Cities Campus
Building 4, Room 115
Concert featuring trombonist Kirby Fellis with the BHC Jazz Ensemble
7 p.m.
Sound Conservatory
504 17th St., Moline
About Kirby Fellis
Kirby Fellis is a Chicago-based jazz trombonist, educator, arranger and composer and director of the Jazz Ensemble at Harper College in Palatine, IL. Hailing from South Florida, he has worked with award-winning musicians in Florida, Michigan, New York, Illinois and Indiana for more than a decade.
As a trombonist, Fellis has worked with organizations such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, DePauw Jazz Festival, New Trier Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival, Perdue Jazz Festival and Jack Rudin Jazz Festival.
He also has worked with many award-winning performers and ensembles such as Darius Rucker, Terrell Stafford, Kurt Elling, Nate Smith, James Carter, Jennifer Hudson, Steve Wiest, Sean Jones, Charlie Hunter, Johnny Mathis, The Cab Calloway Orchestra, The New Standard Jazz Orchestra, The Chicago Neighborhood Project, The No Kap Kollective, Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets and the Legendary Count Basie Orchestra.
Fellis earned a master’s degree in music from Northern Illinois University and a bachelor’s degree in music from Michigan State University.
