Sting performs at the 2019 Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience. JAS CEO Jim Horowitz called it one of the top-five performances in the festival's history. The former Police frontman is the Labor Day Experience’s Saturday night headliner.
Jazz Aspen Snowmass founder and CEO Jim Horowitz compares putting his festival’s lineup together from Friday through Sunday to putting together a musical meal. “My family was in the restaurant business,” he said in an interview with the Aspen Daily News. “The meal I’m putting together is not in your mouth, it’s in your ears.
I’m looking for variety. I’m looking for strong tastes. I’m looking for some of my favorite kinds of food, which will be the main course; I’m looking for some appetizers and I’m looking for some things that perhaps we’ve never had before, but I think my friends would enjoy having a taste of it.
” The main course of the 2024 JAS since is Sting. He is a repeat performer, having played JAS in 2019, a performance Horowitz called one of the top five in the festival’s history. “Sting and his band were both in absolute top form, " he said of that evening.
“Sting himself is a super-charismatic artist and the show that he put together just musically exceeded everyone’s expectations. He really resonated because here’s a guy who’s an international rock star who’s also a yoga addict. His whole demeanor was perfect for our audience.
Sting really resonated here because people just appreciat.