STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Get ready to hear the Cajun fiddling by Tom Rigney and Flambeau and the heady jazz of the Blues Rendition when the Sun Valley Jazz and Music Festival returns this week after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic.

The music fest of boogie woogie, vintage jazz, swing, big band, zydeco, gypsy, stride, blues, cabaret, ragtime and folk will be held Wednesday, Oct. 12, through Sunday, Oct. 16, at various venues in Sun Valley Resort, including the Sun Valley Inn Limelight Room.

The festival is smaller than in the past with expectations of ramping it up in the future as the pandemic becomes endemic.

To keep it small, organizers are offering only 1,500 passes this year compared with more than 3,000 in past years. There are no day or evening passe as in the past.

But there are some five-day general admission passes left and the price of those passes will be reduced with each passing day. Tickets will be available at the Festival sales office in the Sun Valley Inn beginning 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12

Passes cost $290 through Wednesday, Oct. 12; $200 on Friday, Oct. 14, $140 on Saturday, Oct. 15, and $60 on Sunday, Oct. 16. Passes will be good from the day they go into effect through the remainder of the festival.

High school students may attend the festival for $35 and college students for $65.

This year’s performers are the Baker Boys, Blue Renditions, Blue Street Jazz Band, Boise Straight Ahead, Carl Sonny Leland, Carolyn Martin Swing Band, John and Kristy Cocuzzi, Gator Nation, Shaymus Hanlin, High Street Party Band, Holland & Coots, Hot Jazz Collective, Jerry Krahn Quartet, Kings of Swing, Midiri Brothers Septet, Professor Cunningham & His Old School, Side Street Strutters with Meloney Collins, Tom Rigney and Flambeau, the Yve Evans Trio and the Wood River High School Wind Machine with Colla Voce and the WRHS Chamber Orchestra.

Call 1-877-478-5277 for more information or go to https://www.sunvalleyjazz.com.