After being put into recess in 2015, committee president Mike McCall has confirmed the end of the road for the event.

Mr McCall said the committee had decided to put the annual event into recess after sponsors pulled out, in the hope that more could be persuaded to come on board and revive it.

"But that didn't happen," Mr McCall said.

"So rather than take the festival down further to something less than it was, we have decided to go out on a high."

Mr McCall said he was sad to see the festival winding up, but that it had a long history of bringing jazz and blues music to Wagga.

A performer at the inaugural festival, Mr McCall has been on the organising committee since it was in its second year.

"I played in a band in the first one, got roped into the committee in the second one and was the vice-president by the third one," the veteran bass player said.

"Later on, I took over as president."

"A lot of people attended the festival over the years. We got a lot of people in the hotels and motels."

Even now, after the festival has been in recess, Mr McCall said people from outside the state were asking when it would be revived.

In one of his final acts as the committee president, Mr McCall helped to hand over $8300 to the Wagga Country Hope charity.

"We have always been very supportive of children at the festival, so we wanted to do something for young people this time," he said.

Mr McCall has been playing bass since he was a 13-year-old lad growing up in the UK.

Additionally, both he and his wife are cancer survivors, so Country Hope was a natural choice as the recipient of the festival's final donation.

At its peak, the jazz and blues festival ran for three days, brought dozens of performers to Wagga and attracted more than 2000 fans.

One of the highlights was the opportunity for young performers and school bands to take to the stage and gain experience.