Casper College is an institutional member of the International Association of Jazz Educators and the National Association of Schools of Music.

Performance Selection/Soloist Form
We will include two copies (per group) of the performance/selection/Soloist form for you to fill out. Please bring both copies with you when you come to the festival. We depend on you to provide accurate information on these forms so we can award outstanding soloist certificates, release accurate information to the media, ensure accurate stage set up, and to publish a bibliography of all music performed at the festival.

Warm-Up
Approximately thirty minutes prior to your assigned performance time, report to the registration desk. Someone will then take you and your group to your warm up room. This system helps us keep hallways clear and helps insure each group gets their full twenty minute warm up time.

Equipment
We will have the following equipment available for your use at each site:
• Vocal Ensembles Piano, electric bass amp, trap set, risers, PA system, 16 microphones, and a sound technician.
• Instrumental Ensembles Piano, electric bass and guitar amps, trap set, music stands and chairs, risers, vibes, bass amp, conga drums, bongos, timbales, synthesizer and sound technician.
• Please DO NOT plan to bring you own equipment. Our sound technician will place microphones as you indicate on the stage set up form.

Storage
We do NOT provide storage for cases or coats. You may either bring those items with you as you move through the rotation, or leave them on the bus while you perform.

Performance Set-Up
The basic stage set up will be in place before you arrive. If you have special needs, you are responsible for those changes.

Performance
Each group will be allotted thirty minutes of stage time. This time MUST include set up, tear down, performance and adjudicator clinic. We recommend that you limit your performance to no more than twenty minutes to allow the adjudicators time to work with your ensemble.

Clinics
Each group will receive a 30 minute clinic offstage with one of the adjudicators.

Location & Lodging

Hotel
The Casper Ramada Riverside Hotel and Convention Center is the official hotel the 2012 Kinser Jazz Festival. Don't forget to mention the Casper College Kinser Jazz Festival when booking your rooms to ensure your group gets the best rate in town!

Campus Maps & Directions

• Casper College campus map
• Directions to Casper College
• Map of Casper, Wyoming
• Wyoming road map, also shows road conditions

Bus Parking Information

• Campus Parking Map

In anticipation of your visit to our campus please review the procedures that will contribute to the safe and efficient movement of all the participants.

The parking lot in front of the Fine Arts Building is not large enough to accommodate large vehicles - even for drop off. Buses must drop all passengers in the marked unloading area (a diagram will be included in your final packet) on Lisco Drive. Buses should be parked in lot across from the Gateway building.

Special issues such as handicapped access must be brought to the attention of coordinator, Kathy Coe, in advance of your arrival.

Please remember to secure all vehicles that are left unattended, always yield to pedestrians and obey posted speed limits.

• Registration Form The Festival coordinators hope to have online registration available by the mid-November!
• Campus Parking Map
• Tickets for the Tuesday evening concert ($20 each general admission) must be purchased separately. Call (307) 268-2021 to purchase tickets.

High school and junior high/middle school ensembles perform in noncompetitive settings, with the option of receiving an assessment score and rating from adjudicators, who base their assessment on high, professional standards, which may not coincide with the standards of the Wyoming Music Educators Association.

Each ensemble is scheduled for a 30-minute public performance, which includes set up, a brief public clinic with an adjudicator, and a strike. Thereafter, each ensemble receives an additional 30-minute clinic with an adjudicator in a nonpublic setting. The ensemble receives the adjudicators' written comments, rating scores (if required), and a digital video recording of the performance and clinic.

The Casper College Kinser Jazz Festival is a noncompetitive, educational event. Each group will have the option of receiving either a score with a rating, or performing for comments only. All groups will receive a videotape of their performance, and written and/or taped comments. Each group will be given a 30 minute time slot which includes set up, tear down and on-stage clinic. In addition groups will receive a separate 30 minute off-stage clinic with an adjudicator following their performance.

Info Table
We will have a Registration/Information table set up at each performing site. In the Aley Fine Arts Building, this will be located in the main lobby as you enter the building from the parking lot, and in Strausner Student Center, South Lobby. Please check in with the person at the registration desk no later than a half hour before your performance time . Please turn in the two copies of your Performance Selections/Soloist form and your scores at that time.

Evaluations
Adjudication sheets, scores, audiotapes and videotapes will be available in the Director's Hospitality Room in the Aley Fine Arts Room 303A not more than two hours after your performance. If you are unable to pick up your packet, it will be mailed to your school after the festival.

Hospitality Room
Complimentary coffee and refreshments are available to directors in the Aley Fine Arts Director's Hospitality Room, FA 303A.

Lost/Found
Casper College is not responsible for lost or stolen items. However, we will keep any lost or found items turned into us at the registration desks. Printed music, if found, will be returned provided it is stamped with your school's name.

• Photo Order Form