The Steel City Smooth Jazz Fest is back for year ELEVEN in 2025. We will continue the celebration with 4 days of live music and good times! This celebration of various music genres will feature Blues on Thursday, June 5th with Smooth Jazz and R&B on Friday, June 6th and Saturday, June 7th. Our Gospel celebration will return on Sunday, June 8th. That's right, we will be "LIVE in 25" offering a BIGGER and BETTER Steel City Smooth Jazz Fest! This epic event will be held on the grounds of the historic Linn Park in Downtown Birmingham and will offer outstanding live performances, delicious foods and a fun-filled and festive atmosphere over the course of FOUR DAYS! You don't want to miss it! Tickets are on sale now!

In 2014, the inaugural year of the music festival, our featured artists included Will Downing, Ken Ford, Jonathan Butler, Alex Bugnon, Euge Groove, Norman Brown, Gregg Karukas, Ben Tankard, Jessy J, Karen Briggs, Jeff Kashiwa, Nick Colionne, Gail Johnson, Marcus Anderson, Kim Scott, Bobby Caldwell and Robin Bramblett and many others.

Over the years our music lovers attending the Steel City Jazz Festival have enjoyed artists such as Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, The O'jays, The Isley Brothers, Boney James, Anthony Hamilton, Stokely, Stephanie Milles, Kirk Whalum, David Sanborn, Jeffrey Osborne, Morris Day and The Time, Norman Brown, Musiq Soulchild, Jeff Lorber, Marion Meadows, Chuck Loeb, Everett Harp, Rick Braun, Ken Ford, Marcus Anderson, Paul Taylor, Ben Tankard, Jazz Funk Soul, Maysa, Kyle Turner, Eric Essix and many others.

We offer top notch entertainment with the world’s best artists, in a unique setting, resulting in the type of musical experience that you can’t find anywhere else. The Steel City Smooth Jazz Festival has become a destination event drawing music fans from around the world to Birmingham, Alabama!