Festivals in Jazz Festivals

The Bath Music Festival is a 11 day, city-wide, music festival this year taking place mid to late May 2014. The festival has been going strong since 1948 and is host to a wide variety of different musical genres including contemporary jazz, folk, world, orchestral and ...... Read More

The 2014 Beaches Jazz Festival is a 10 day free jazz festival held in Toronto, Canada during mid-late July. With roughly 1000 artists performing over 6 main stages including 50 dedicated bands for the “StreetFest” party you can see why some 1,000,000 people come ...... Read More

The 2014 Payne Pest Management San Diego Jazz Festival will this year run for 3 days over the memorial day weekend at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. Expected audience of 11,500 and around 25 acts in total, the San Diego Jazz Fest is a great little festival hosted on the ...... Read More

With audiences in excess of 35,000 each year, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is now known to be one of the largest free jazz festivals on the East Coast of the USA. It’s been going strong since 1989 and is held in memory of Clifford Brown to died in a tragic car ...... Read More

The 2014 moers festival is now in its 43rd year, with it comes a new purpose built venue and a star studded lineup with jazz artists attending from all around the world, this year with a special focus on Europe, USA and Brazilian acts. Over the years many famous musicians ...... Read More

The 2014 DC Jazz Festival (DCJF) will this year run for 6 days and marks the festivals 10th Anniversary. With over 125 performances at various clubs and venues around the city (60+ different venues), the DC Jazz Fest is expected to bring in a crowd of over 100,000. It is ...... Read More

Jazz in Duke Town is the largest free jazz festival in Netherlands, it’s an open air festival hosted in the town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands during Pentecost (public holiday). Now in its 41st year the festival attracts 10’s of thousands of people to ...... Read More

The annual Playboy Jazz Festival is this year scheduled for 14-15th June 2014 and will be hosted at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California, USA. Going into it’s 36th year the Playboy Jazz Festival has a long history of providing exceptional jazz artists to ...... Read More

Join over 800,000 people in San Francisco for the 14th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Despite it’s name, the festival is not a dedicated bluegrass festival and hosts some of the finest (unpaid) artists from all over the world. The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass ...... Read More

With an expected attendance of around 20,000 people, the 2014 Cheltenham Jazz Festival is establishing itself as one of the best jazz festivals in the UK. This year it’s scheduled for the 30th April – 5th May 2014 (Bank Holiday weekend) and has confirmed acts ...... Read More

The 2014 TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival is this year planned for 20th June to the 1st July, with an audience of around 300,000 and some 800 performing artists, this is one jazz festival you’ll definitely not want to miss! Videos Video Highlights of the Ottawa ...... Read More

The Iowa City Jazz Festivals is one of the best free festivals in the American Heartland, also renowned to be one of the Top 10 Jazz Festivals in the county. Originally founded in 1991 and supported by Iowa City and Iowa City University, this fest has grown over the years ...... Read More

The Barcelona International Jazz Festival (often referred to as the Voll-Damm Festival Internacional De Jazz De Barcelona) is now going into its 46th year and is one of the premier European jazz festivals currently on the circuit. Each year this epic fest attracts over ...... Read More

For 5 days in early summer each year the Ribble Valley Jazz Festival attracts over 7,000 people who swarm to this small, rural Lancashire town to watch performances from the best local and national jazz artists in the UK. Now in it’s 5th year, the festival has grown ...... Read More

The Bohém Ragtime & Jazz Festival is a 3 day jazz festival in Kecskemét, Hungary during the end of March 2014. ‘Bohém’ in Hungarian means ‘happy, carefree & funny’. The festival has a focus on classic jazz and is the largest jazz festival in ...... Read More

The Steyr Jazz Festival has been running since 2006 in Austria’s 12th most populated town, Steyr. The lineup this year has many international artists flying in from as far away as Brazil and the USA. Videos Video Highlights of the Steyr Jazz Festival (jazzfest) Photo ...... Read More

The 2014 Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival will be held on March 7-9th in the center of Bristol, UK. 40 concerts are scheduled as well as numerous late-night jam sessions and masterclasses, many of which are conducted by headline acts. Confirmed acts include Pee Wee Ellis, ...... Read More

Now entering it’s 38th birthday, the North Sea Jazz Festival is one of the best jazz festivals in the world. The lineup for 2014 includes Buena Vista Social Club, Gregory Porter, Pharrell Williams, Booker T Jones, The Cat Empire, Stevie Wonder, Kenny Garrett, Dirty ...... Read More

The Monterey Jazz Festival is a not-for-profit festival hosted in Monterey, California. For 3-days each September, the oldest jazz festival in the world attracts an audience of over 40,000 people for a long weekend of jazz, blues and soul music from the very best local and ...... Read More

The Kids Jazz L.E. Festival is one of the only dedicated children’s jazz festivals in the world, hosted in Leipzig, Germany. Now in it’s 5th year, and for the first time ever, the festival will be host to international acts as well as acts from around Germany. ...... Read More