• 13th Annual Festival
    • WEEK 1
    • WEEK 2
    • WEEK 3
  • Spenard Jazz Fest 2020: FAQ
  • BUY MERCH / BECOME A MEMBER
    • DONATE TO THE SJF COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
  • SPONSOR / PARTNER
  • GALLERY
  • Contact
  • SJF Member's Club

Spenard Jazz Fest | Based in Anchorage, Alaska

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    Alaskan Jazz 2020: Zelydia - Rick Zelinsky 3:26
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    Spenard Jazz Fest 2020: Climbing - Karrie Pavish Anderson 3:36
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    Alaskan Jazz 2020: Look and See - Corinthia Rabb 2:33
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    SJF Featured Artist 2017: Funkifize - Lenny Pickett 5:44
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    Spenard Jazz Fest 2020: Truth - Arthur Welsh 3:08
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    Alaskan Jazz 2020: Ascent 1 - Rick Zelinsky 5:42
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    Spenard Jazz Fest 2020: Them There Eyes - Melissa Fischer 5:13
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    Alaskan Jazz 2020: Best of Me - Sunny M 2:31
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    Spenard Jazz Fest 2020: Joe Craig - Aina 0:09
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  • 13th Annual Festival
    • WEEK 1
    • WEEK 2
    • WEEK 3
  • Spenard Jazz Fest 2020: FAQ
  • BUY MERCH / BECOME A MEMBER
    • DONATE TO THE SJF COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
  • SPONSOR / PARTNER
  • GALLERY
  • Contact
  • SJF Member's Club

MELISSA "Jazzmom" FISCHER

Melissa Bledsoe Fischer, is a pianist/vocalist with over 30 years of professional music experience. With 5 Cd’s to her name (and 4 children), she established herself as one of Anchorage’s premier performers. She can take a jazz standard or a common blues tune and make it all her own, with a vocal quality that ranges from soft and sultry to bold and bawdy. The Anchorage Daily News describes Melissa as a "most impressive performer, singing with great passion and emotion." Melissa was voted, "Anchorage's Best Singer" in 2005 and “Best Solo Act” in 2009 by the readers of the Anchorage Press. The “Jazzmom” is sure to delight audiences of all ages with her wide and interesting repertoire delivered with experienced professionalism. She now lives in New Orleans, LA, but with the wonders of SJF's Hunker Down Edition, has agreed to join us again this year. 

Shows (all times AKT): 
COMING SOON

Support our 2020 Artists!

Unlike many other festivals in Alaska, it is in our mission to pay our national, international, and most importantly LOCAL artists! ALL of them. Also - we help each other out. If you want to help perpetuate this proud tradition, join Spenard Jazz Fest as a MEMBER and/or Donate to the SJF Artist Relief Fund, aimed at helping artists who have lost all of their income for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 crisis.

Want to know more or stay in touch? Drop us your email! 

Thanks for being a part of and believing in SJF and its mission! 
- SJF Team | May 2020