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1 STONE MANSE DR, SOUTH PARK PA 15129 · 6:00–8:00 PM EDT (June–Aug) · 5:00–7:00 PM EDT (Sep)
Open Stage at Jazzmania is a live, collaborative jazz experience where the house band opens the floor to guest performers throughout the evening. Vocalists, instrumentalists, spoken word artists, and emerging performers are invited to join seasoned musicians on stage to perform jazz standards, originals, and spontaneous collaborations in a welcoming, supportive atmosphere. Every Open Stage performance is unique — built in the moment through creativity, improvisation, and community.
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The Jazzmania Holiday Party opens the 2026–27 Encore season at Elks Lodge #339 — an evening for friends of the band, the players who sat in through the summer, and anyone who followed the season from a folding chair at the Cascades. It is a thank-you and a season opener in the same night.
Read More → Add to Calendar Winter SeriesJanuary in Pittsburgh is the month the city stays indoors, which is exactly the point of an indoor series. The Winter Open Stage is the first full show of the new year — warm room, full bar, and a stage open to whoever brings something to play.
Read More → Add to Calendar Winter SeriesThe February Open Stage sits at the deepest point of the Pittsburgh winter, and it is reliably one of the better-attended shows of the indoor season. Nobody has anywhere else to be, and the room fills accordingly.
Read More → Add to Calendar Winter SeriesMarch 20, 2027 is the spring equinox, and this show lands on the first night of it. The outdoor season is still two and a half months out, so this is the point in the calendar where the indoor series starts pointing at the summer.
Read More → Add to Calendar Winter SeriesBy April the city is outside again, but the Encore series is still indoors for two more shows. The April Open Stage is a good one for a first-time sitter-in: the room is comfortable, the crowd is regulars, and nobody is precious about it.
Read More → Add to Calendar Winter SeriesThe Spring Finale is the last indoor show of the 2026–27 season. Three weeks later the band moves outside to the Cascades for the summer, so this is the closing night at the lodge and the handoff between the two halves of the year.
Read More → Add to Calendar Winter SeriesOpening Night is the first outdoor show of the summer and the start of the Cascades season. The pavilion, the waterfalls, the pond, the long June light — this is the show that sets the pattern every other Sunday follows through September.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesFather's Day falls on June 20, 2027, and the show is built for it. Free, outdoors, family-friendly, and early enough in the evening that it works for a day that usually already has a cookout in it. Bring your father, or bring your kids.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesIndependence Day lands on a Sunday in 2027, which puts it exactly on a Cascades show night. Stars, Stripes and Standards is the Fourth of July edition of the series — the American songbook on the American holiday, outdoors, for free.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesA Midsummer Night's Jazz is the mid-July show, set at the height of the summer when the evening light at the Cascades runs long past the last tune. It returns from the 2026 season, where it was one of the best-attended nights of the year.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesThe Dog Days Open Stage opens August at the Cascades. It is the hottest stretch of the Pittsburgh summer, the pavilion is shaded, the pond is right there, and the show runs into the cool part of the evening.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesAugust Moon Jazz is the mid-August show and a returning title from the 2026 season. Late summer, full pavilion, and the point in the year where the regulars and the sitters-in have been playing together long enough to take some real chances.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesThe Labor Day Open Stage is the show for the last long weekend of summer — Sunday, September 5, 2027, the night before Labor Day. Labor Day is the working person's holiday and Jazzmania is a working ensemble, which has always made this one of the biggest crowds of the late season.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesThe Final Encore closes the 2026–27 season. It is the last outdoor show of the year and the last show before the series moves back indoors to Elks Lodge #339 — a full season, from a December holiday party to a September sundown at the waterfalls, ending here.
Read More → Add to Calendar Summer SeriesShows are free and often outdoors, which means they move. Leave an address and we will tell you when and where the next one is.
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Yes. Jazzmania Live performances welcome all ages — the program is built around the idea that live jazz belongs to everyone in the community.
Yes. Every Jazzmania Live performance is streamed live and free through The Encore at theencorepittsburgh.com.
Elks Lodge #339 is located at 400 Cedar Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, on Pittsburgh's North Side. It hosts Jazzmania Live's Winter and Spring series.
The Cascades at Stone Manse is located at 1 Stone Manse Drive, South Park, PA 15129, in Allegheny County's South Park. It hosts Jazzmania Live's Summer series outdoors.
Most shows run between two and three hours. Winter and Spring shows at the Elks Lodge typically run 7:00 to 10:00 PM. Summer shows at The Cascades run 6:00 to 8:00 PM in June through August, and 5:00 to 7:00 PM in September.