Jazz Festival will be held virtually this year. Ensembles will perform two selections and directors will have a choice to play live over zoom or prepare a recording in advance to be played over zoom. Students and directors will be at their respective school during a time slot on either Friday, March 11th or Saturday March 12th. NIMCon will take requests for preferred date and schedule events as if they were in-person. A NIMCon Board member will run the event with three adjudicators on zoom to listen and provide a clinic. Directors will have their choice of Festival format (Ratings), or AHMI format (Comments Only). The zoom event will be recorded, and a link will be available afterwards for the directors to share with their school community. Jazz Festival will take place the afternoon of April 12th and follow the same format.