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Elizabeth Welden-Smith is the Deputy Director of the Monterey Jazz Festival. For over half a century, the Monterey Jazz Festival has been a national leader in producing and presenting jazz through performance, education, and community outreach programs. Originally founded as a non-profit in 1958, the Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest continuously-running jazz festival in the world, and presented nearly every major jazz artist over the last 60-plus years—from Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett, and Miles Davis, to contemporary masters Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Wynton Marsalis, Trombone Shorty, Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, and Terence Blanchard.