01/05/2026
We cannot wait to welcome bass master Victor Wooten to Greeley for a MainStage performance at the 2026 UNC•Greeley Jazz Festival! He will be performing “A Tribute to Jaco Pastorius”with Compass Jazz Orchestra on Friday, April 24. 2026.
Victor Wooten is a five-time Grammy winner. He first gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Continuing to blaze a musical trail with the band, Victor has also become widely known for his own Grammy nominated solo recordings and tours.
Among other things, he is a loving husband and father of four, a skilled naturalist and teacher, a published author, a magician and acrobat, and has won every major award given to a bass guitarist including being voted Bassist of the Year in Bass Player Magazine's readers poll three times (the only person to win it more than once.) In 2011, Rolling Stone Magazine voted Victor one of the Top Ten Bassists of all time.
Victor has been heralded as "the Michael Jordan of the bass" and "one of the most fearless musicians on the planet." Wooten's sought-after skills and growing popularity have lead to recordings and performances with artists such as Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Bootsy Collins, Branford Marsalis, Mike Stern, Prince, India Arie, Keb Mo, Dennis Chambers, Susan Tedeschi, Gov't Mule, Bruce Hornsby, Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller, Frank Gambale, the legendary Moroccan group Nass El Ghiwane, and many others.
His respected reputation as a teacher and speaker/lecturer on the subjects of both Music and Nature has garnered invitations for him to speak and teach at schools, universities, classes, and spiritual centers around the world. Some of these places include Strathmore College, Berklee College of Music, Stanford University, Harvard, Mississippi State, Miami University, and Middle Tennessee State University.
You can catch “A Tribute to Jaco Pastorius” with Victor Wooten and Compass Jazz Orchestra at 4:30 and 7:30 PM on Friday, April 24th in the UNC Campus Commons Performance Hall.
These concerts will likely sell out fast, get your tickets now at the link in our bio!
