Lineup Announced

From the press release - visit our Lineup page for more information on each of the acts and links to their sites.

The Delaney Chevrolet Westsylvania Jazz and Blues Festival (DCWJBF), Saturday, May 23 in downtown Indiana, anchors a day of free performances with award-winning headliners known for innovation.

For the second year in a row, DCWJBF will join forces with the Westsylvania Arts Festival, held concurrently in the heart of Indiana's downtown shopping district. Gallery shows, demonstrations, and hands-on activities for all ages will be within sight and sound of the Philadelphia Street stage.

2025 DCJazzPrix band competition winner José Luiz Martins, along with his "4tet," will take the stage at 5:30 p.m.

The Brazilian pianist-composer-bandleader and producer seamlessly incorporates Brazilian rhythms with flavors of jazz, classical, rock, and contemporary music. His 2025 release, Odyssey Mixtape, garnered media acclaim from such prestigious publications as DownBeat Magazine, Modern Drummer, Paris Move, and Contemporary Fusion.

Martins has described the album as taking “a direction [that] was completely unexpected, and that truly excited me...There’s more synth, more rock, more funk, and more lyrics to express this difficult journey.” The journey being Martins’s diagnosis with a neurological condition, focal dystonia, that can be career-ending for musicians.

At 7:30 p.m., blues headliner Selwyn Birchwood performs. While he's a two-time Blues Music Award and International Blues Challenge winner, Birchwood layers "traditional blues, funk, Stax-flavored R&B and psychedelic rock" (Guitar Player magazine) in his contemporary take on the genre.

“Blues has a very specific connotation with younger audiences,” Birchwood told Rob Ruggiero of the Houston Press. "I want to honor the roots of this music, but ...it has to evolve. As long as the soul is there it will work. And younger audiences love what we’re doing.” His latest album and sixth release on Alligator Records is Electric Swamp Funkin’ Blues.

The music starts at 11 a.m. with student performances, including the Westsylvania All-Star Jazz Band, comprised of young musicians from grades eight through 12.

The rest of the lineup and full schedule is as follows:

11:00 a.m.: Indiana Area Junior High Jazz Band

11:30 a.m.: Armstrong Jazz Band

Noon: Knoch Jazz Band

12:45 p.m. Westsylvania All-Stars

1:45p.m.: Wanderlost, piano-driven quartet fusing pop, rock and jazz

3:00 p.m.: Craig Davis Jazz, critically-lauded jazz pianist

4:15 p.m.: Norside, “Rust-Belt Funk,” in a return appearance by this Pittsburgh-based organ trio

5:30 p.m. José Luiz Martins, jazz headliner

7:30 p.m. Selwyn Birchwood, blues headliner