2025 Delaney Chevrolet Westsylvania Jazz & Blues Festival Lineup Announced
ROGER HUMPHRIES, CAROLYN WONDERLAND HEADLINE 2025 DELANEY CHEVROLET WESTSYLVANIA JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL
INDIANA, PA, April 7 — From Texas to Pittsburgh, the 2025 Delaney Chevrolet Westsylvania Jazz and Blues Festival (DCWJBF) will bring big sounds to downtown Indiana, Pa. on May 24, creating the soundtrack for an expanded "Westsylvania Weekend.”
A summer kickoff for more than a decade, the event will partner with the inaugural Westsylvania Arts Fest held concurrently Memorial Day weekend. Admission remains free of charge thanks to the support of sponsors.
Jazz headliner Roger Humphries was among the first members named this past winter to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s inaugural class of Jazz Legacies Fellows.
Drumming by age four and a professional musician at 14, Humphries was 16 when he led an ensemble at Carnegie Hall, before going on the road.
Following his work with piano great Horace Silver on Song for My Father—an album considered a hard bop essential, Humphries toured with Ray Charles before returning home to Pittsburgh and launching his own band, the R.H. Factor. He continues to perform, educate, and mentor young talent. Humphries takes to the DCWJBF stage at 5:30 p.m.
Also something of a prodigy, blues headliner Carolyn Wonderland found herself swapping songs with Townes Van Zandt at age 16. "Something else" in Bob Dylan's estimation, Wonderland is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter who releases her latest album, Truth Is, this May. She’s appeared on Austin City Limits and Mountain Stage, and alongside Bonnie Raitt in the film The Road To Austin. Wonderland performs at 7:30 p.m.
The full day of music kicks off at 11:00 a.m. with student performances by LE Jazz (Armstrong County's Lenape Elementary), River Hawks Jazz (Armstrong Middle School), Marion Center High School, and the Westsylvania All-Stars featuring Dr. Jamie Moore.
The 2025 schedule is as follows:
11:00 a.m. LE Jazz (student performance by Lenape Elementary Jazz, Armstrong County)
11:30 a.m. River Hawks Jazz (student performance, Armstrong Middle School)
12:00 p.m. Marion Center High School
12:30 p.m. Westsylvania All Stars featuring Dr. Jamie Moore
1:30 p.m. Jazz vocalist Ellie Martin, whose performances include the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival, the Sunset Jazz Festival, and the Michigan Jazz Festival.
2:45 p.m. Jazz pianist Tom Roberts. Formerly a pianist and musical director for Leon Redbone, he has appeared on The Tonight Show and Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, in addition to arranging and performing music for films such as Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator.
4:00 p.m. Pittsburgh bluesman Jimmy Adler. With performances compared to a southern tent revival (All About Blues Music), Blues Revue Magazine guarantees "excitement for fans of straight-ahead blues guitar.” Adler releases his latest album, It's Hot! In April 2025.
5:30 p.m. Roger Humphries
7:30 p.m. Carolyn Wonderland
Made possible through the support of Delaney Chevrolet, the Indiana County Endowment, and sponsors like Hilton Garden Inn Indiana at IUP, InFirst Bank, IRMC and Presbyterian Senior Living at St. Andrew's Village.
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