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Africa

Cape Town Jazz Fest (South Africa)
 
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Americas


Dominican Republic Jazz Festival - An international jazz festival held in October on the weekend of the Columbus holiday. The festival features jazz artists from the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, South America, Africa and Asia.

 

Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival (Jamaica) 

 

Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival (Puerto Rico)   

 

St Lucia Jazz Festival  

 

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Canada

 

All Canadian Jazz Festival - An annual event held in Port Hope, Ontario, featuring Canadian jazz artists. Includes schedule, profiles of participants, ticket and press information.

 

Beaches International Jazz Festival - Celebrates jazz culture and music. Held annually in Toronto, Ontario.

 

Burlington Jazz & Blues Festival - Annual outdoor event in Burlington, Ontario that has a growing reputation as one of Canada's best Jazz and Blues festivals.

 

Canadian Big Band Celebration - [Port Elgin, Ontario] Held annually on the weekend of the third Saturday in September. Bands scheduled, photos, band signup.

 

Distillery Jazz Festival - [Toronto] Maps, scheduled performances, photos, merchandise.

 

Guelph Jazz Festival 

 

International Actual Music Festival - Annual May event in Victoriaville, Quebec. Multimedia, improvisation, jazz, rock, contemporary, live, and electroacoustic music.

 

Jazz Winnipeg Festival - Annual festival and concert which has featured such notable performers as Johnny Lang, Holly Cole and Kurt Elling.

 

Jazzfest International - [Victoria, BC] Annual event schedules hundreds of performances, both free and by paid admission, over ten days and nights each summer. Schedule, artists, transportation, hotels.

 

Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival 

 

Montreal Jazz Festival   - This annual summer event is one of the largest in the world, attracting two million visitors each year with several hundred concerts scheduled over a ten-day period.

 

Ottawa International Jazz Festival - Annual summer concert series in Ottawa, Ontario. Site includes newsletters, membership details, and information about past and upcoming events.

Rimouski Festi Jazz International 

 

SaskTel Saskatchewan Jazz Festival - Annual summer event held in June/July.

 

Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival - Annual June - July event held in downtown Toronto. 

 

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USA

  

Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival

 

Atlanta Jazz Party

 

Brownsville Latin Jazz Festival - Features three days of international, national, and regional Latin Jazz music, and dance acts. Includes performers, schedule, venues, and festival information.

 

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival - Community based Jazz festival held in Burlington, Vermont. Features event dates, ticket information, souvenirs, and jukebox sampler of past artists.

 

Cape May Jazz Festival - Held twice a year in New Jersey, this festival celebrates straight-ahead jazz. Includes schedule, artists, tickets, news, and festival links.

 

Capital Jazz Fest - Features a showcase of live contemporary jazz music in America. Includes general information, schedule, tickets, photo album, and exhibitor information.

Clearwater Jazz Festival 

 

Coors Light Music Festival - Tickets and Accommodations to the festival also known as the Cincinnati Jazz Festival.

 

Detroit International Jazz Festival 

 

Earshot Jazz Festival 

 

Elkhart Jazz Festival - A three-day festival held in June, in Elkhart Indiana. Includes artists, schedule, tickets, press room, and sponsors.

 

Elmhurst College Jazz Festival - Annual College Jazz Festival in Illinois. Offers schedule, featured artists, festival history, and map directions.

 

Evergreen Jazz Festival - Provides information and ticket ordering for the festival in Evergreen, Colorado. Includes photos and backgrounds of the 10 bands scheduled to perform, plus photos of the area.

 

Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz - Features four nights of free jazz in Bushnell Park - next to the State Capitol in Hartford. Includes schedule, artists, photos, and information.

 

Hawaii International Jazz Festival - Annual two-day summer jazz festival. Venues, artists, tickets and photos.

 

Idlewild Jazz Festival - An annual event featuring outdoor entertainment, jazz movies, local documentaries, and workshops for high school students. Takes place every summer in Idlewild, Michigan. Site provides a schedule, ticket ordering form, accommodation information, and maps. [Requires Flash]

 

Iowa City Jazz Festival 

 

Jazz and Gumbo Music Festival - Held in downtown Shreveport, Louisiana. Site includes photo gallery, schedule of events, press release, and festival information.

 

Jazz Aspen Snowmass - Features jazz, blues, and soul music. Includes education project, performers, ticket information, and contact.

 

Jazz in the Moonlight - Held in the cool tropical winter months at St. John in the US Virgin Islands. Artist submissions and schedules, history.

 

Jazz in the Pass Jazz Festival - Free one-day jazz festival held annually on the Gulf Coast in Pass Christian, Mississippi. Features Blues, Jazz, Cajun, food, soda, and beer.

 

Jazz in the Valley 

 

Litchfield Jazz Festival - Annual summer festival sponsored by the Litchfield Performing Arts Association in Connecticut. Event information, news, schedule, and tickets.

 

Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival 

 

Medford Jazz Jubilee  

 

Mohican Blues Festival - The annual "Ohio's Blues Invasion" festival is held in Loudonville, Ohio and showcases the blues and jazz musicians. Photo gallery, tickets, and message board included.

 

Monterey Jazz Festival 

 

Mt. Airy Cultural Center, Inc. - A non-profit organization devoted to promoting Jazz as an artform and promoting children's development through teaching of music. The Tony Williams Labor Day Scholarship Jazz Fest aids these aims.

 

Mt Hood Jazz Festival  

 

Music Worcester, Inc. - Non-profit presenter of the Worcester Music Festival, International Artists Series and Mass Jazz Festival.

 

Natchitoches Jazz & R&B Festival - This official web site includes line up, schedule, ticket information, souvenirs, and directions for finding historic Natchitoches, Louisiana.

 

New Haven Jazz Festival -  Offers festival information, artists, schedule, and venues.

 

New Orleans Jazz Ascona - Annual event devoted to traditional jazz held in Ascona, Switzerland. Contains festival history, video samples, reviews, current program, and a list of performers.

 

Omaha Jazz and Blues Festival - Jazz, and blues festival showcasing national, regional, and local artists. Includes schedule, talent, tickets, and contact information.

 

Park City Jazz Festival 

 

Purdue Jazz Festival - Midwestern annual jazz festival, held in January. Includes a list of participants, schedules, events, and ticket information.

 

Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival - Annual event held in Red Bank New Jersey, Contains festival information, newsroom, sponsors, artsis, and contact.

 

Reno Jazz Festival 

 

Saint Louis Jazz Fest - Two day outdoor jazz event, held in Clayton's Shaw Park, St. Louis County. Performance schedule, and ticket and festival information.

 

Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival - Lists featured artists, schedule, clinics, and sponsors.

 

San Francisco Jazz Festival 

 

San Jose Jazz Festival 

 

Satchmo Summer Fest 

 

Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues Festival 

 

Sisters Jazz Festival - Held in Sisters, Oregon. Provides artists, venues, lodging information, and sponsors.

 

Summit Jazz Festival  

 

Syracuse Jazz Festival - 2002 festival is dedication to Etta Jones. Contains festival overview, admission, schedule, artists, and history.

 

Telluride Jazz Celebration - Annual summer event in Colorado. Ticket information, artist schedule, photo gallery, and festival history.

 

Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke - An annual music festival celebrating the music, life and times of Jazz music legend Bix Beiderbecke. Live music, old record spinning, jazz site tours, and record trading / sales.

 

Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland - Festival featuring performances by Al Green, Jeff Lorber, Dame Cleo Lane, and Terence Blanchard. Provides educational clinic information, schedule, tickets, festival history, and contact information.

 

Vision Festival 

 

West Coast Jazz Party 

 

Yellowstone Jazz Festival - An annual jazz festival in Cody and Powell Wyoming. Contains summer schedule, artists, photos of past events, festival history, winter schedule, archives, and links.

 Ziegler Kettle Moraine Jazz Festival - Annual September event established in 1998 in West Bend, Wisconsin attracts thousands of people to hear famous artists and support Rotary charities. Offers history, ticket prices and order form, entertainment schedule and map.

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EU

 

Alandia Jazz Festival - Jazz event in the town of Mariehamn, Finland. Schedule, ticket information, and band links.

 

April Jazz Festival - (Finland) 

Baltic Jazz - Annual jazz event held in Dalsbruk, Finland. The festival offers traditional jazz performed by artists from countries around the Baltic. In English, Swedish, and Finnish.   

Berlin Jazz Festival (Germany) 

Blue Note Records Festival (Belgium) 

Copenhagen Jazz Festival (Denmark) 

 

Estoril Jazz on a Summer Day (Portugal) 

 

Festi de Jazz de Vitoria--Gastiez

 

Imatra Big Band Festival (Finland)

 

INNtone Festival (Austria) 

 

Jazz Festival Saalfelden and Kunsthaus Nexus (Austria) 

 

Jazz on the Beach (Finland) 

 

Jazzfest Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) 

 

Jazzfest Wien (Austria) 

 

Karlott Jazz and Blues Festival  (Finland)

 

Keitelejazz (Finland) 

 

Moers Festival (Germany) 

 

Molde Jazz (Norway) 

Montreux Jazz Festival - Internationally known event held each summer in Switzerland. History and archives, scheduled performers, screensavers. In English, French and German. 

Nickelsdorfer Konfrontationen (Austria) 

North Sea Jazz Festival - Summer event includes jazz, blues and funk at the Hague, Holland. Describes honorees receiving annual Bird Awards, and links to sister event at Capetown, South Africa. In Dutch and English.    
Pori Jazz Festival  (Finland) 
 

 

Santorini Jazz Festival - Annual summer event in Greece. A history of the festival, music program, and music videos are offered

 

Saulkrasti Jazz - Corporate-sponsored summer event held in Latvia. 

 

Stockholm Jazz Festival 

 

Tampere Jazz Happening 

 

Time In Jazz (Italy) 

 

Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (Austria) 


Uncool - Series of yearly events in Switzerland features avant garde orchestral sounds such as the Sun Ra Arkestra and Egberto Gismonti. In English, some pages in German and Italian.  

 

Stockholm Jazz Festival 

 

Tampere Jazz Happening 

 

Time In Jazz (Italy) 

 

Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (Austria) 


Uncool - Series of yearly events in Switzerland features avant garde orchestral sounds such as the Sun Ra Arkestra and Egberto Gismonti. In English, some pages in German and Italian.  
 

Vilnius Jazz Festival - Annual autumn event in Lithuania offers yearly archived pages from 1989

 

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Ireland

 

Bray Jazz Festival

 

City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival

 

Cork Jazz Festival


Guinness Cork Jazz Festival - Irish annual festival, held in October. Background information, venues, and booking details.

 

Holywood International Jazz Festival

 

Loughcrew Gardens Jazz  Festival
 

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UK


Birmingham International Jazz Festival - Annual festival held in July in Birmingham. Programme, venue and artist information, and merchandise.   

Brecon Jazz Festival - Annual festival in August; includes programme, book details, and practical information for visitors.

Deepdale Jazz Festival - You want live Jazz, then you've found it. A classic, live jazz festival every year on the coast of North Norfolk in the picturesque village of Burnham Deepdale.

Dove Beer and Jazz Festival - For three days each July near Buxton, Derbyshire; offers their programme, with details of ticketing, facilities, and for contact.  
 
 
Holywood Jazz Festival

Hull International Jazz Festival - A truly international jazz event featuring bands, musicians, singers, and dancers from four continents in five venues over six days. An exhilarating musical experience for all.   
 

Jazz by the Stour - Charity festival held over four days in the village of Bures, UK. Includes events, history, and committee information.

Manchester Jazz Festival - Two weeks of jazz, held annually. Programme and venue information, and details of their education programme. 

Marsden Jazz Festival - Annual event with formal and informal sessions in the village of Marsden, West Yorkshire, in October. Programme, artist information and practical details.   

Nairn International Jazz Festival - Held in August; offers their programme, history,with information on ticketing and headline artists.

Oliver Cromwell Jazz Festival - Festival held annually in June, in Upton Upon Severn. Contains programme and booking information, and photos.   

Porthcawl Jazz Festival - Information about the programme, ticketing, and location. [South Wales]

Scarborough Jazz Festival - Programme of events, information about some of the musicians performing at the festival (with downloadable sample music), ticket prices and contacts.   

Upton Upon Severn Jazz Festival - Annual 3-day festival held in June. Line-up and ticket information.

 

Wigan International Jazz Festival  

 

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Middle East

Red Sea Jazz Festival (Red Sea jazz Festival)

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Pacific

Bellingen Jazz Festival

Generations in Jazz Festival 

Kiama Jazz Festival

Manly International Jazz Festival 

Melbourne International Jazz Festival - An annual event showcasing international jazz musicians in Melbourne. Site provides a schedule, past event information, and donation information.  

Morpeth Jazz Festival 

Newcastlejazz Jazz Festival - Event focused on traditional jazz hosted by the Newcastle and Hunter Jazz Club in New South Wales.

Thredbo Jazz Festival

Wagga Wagga Jazz Festival - Annual even held each September in New South Wales. Schedule of artists and links to accommodations.

Waiheke Island of Jazz - Events held at Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand, organized by New Orleans jazz impresario David Paquette.

Wangaratta Festival Of Jazz and Blues - The annual event held on the weekend of the Melbourne Cup in Northeast Victoria is sponsored by the Transport Accident Commission (TAC).  

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Last Updated ( Friday, 25 April 2008 )