EFG London Jazz Festival – UK’s largest celebration of jazz beckoning you!
2019 EFG London Jazz Festival is round the corner. This year the UK's largest celebration of jazz is going to be held from November 15 to 24.
The London Jazz Festival first took place in 1993 and has since grown to become one of the largest events of jazz in the United Kingdom. The festival has an interesting aspect to it. It became a jazz festival but didn’t have a jazz as the only thing. This all-encompassing festival also included Jazz’s connections and antecedents with Caribbean, European, Indian, African and Latin music. Jazz was in fact a touchstone with several musical ideas moving in between, or colliding with other genres. The jazz festival is unique in the sense that it has constantly evolved and tried to mix the tradition with experiment, the familiar with new, and one culture with another.
London Jazz Festival History
In its initial phases, it was celebrated as the Camden Festival. However, the London Borough of Camden added a Jazz Week in 1970. The Camden Jazz Weeks was held for 15 years at several venues around the borough, which included Shaw Theatre, Roundhouse, London Forum, Logan Hall and Bloomsbury Theatre. The Camden Festival was finally closed by the early nineties. A company named Serious, which produced the Camden Festival, later on started the London Jazz Festival in 1992 with assistance from the London Arts Board.
Highlights of London Jazz Festival
The EFG London Jazz Festival will now enter into its 28th year in 2019. It has become London’s biggest city-wide festival, with an impressive lineup of over 2,000 artists performing in 70 venues across London.
Where is London Jazz Festival happening in 2019?
The 10-day celebration has branched out other important venues, including The Royal Academy of Arts, the Arts Depot, the Wigmore Hall and Wapping Project. This also includes dozens of concerts held across some major concert halls in the UK’s capital city. The London Jazz Festival essentially celebrates the clubs and independent producers that have kept the flame burning year round.
The London Jazz Festival has taken the music to a huge and forever growing audience with its fascinating mix of world-class artists and emerging stars. The festival has the reputation to bring the freshest and best music to London with several concerts, talks, club events and workshops.
Who all are performing in 2019 EFG London Jazz Festival?
An impressive line up has already been announced for 2019 EFG London Jazz Festival.
The talented performing artists scheduled to enthrall audiences with their eclectic performances include Guy Barker's Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Sammy Maine, Ryan Quigley, Pete Long, Claire Martin, Chelsea Carmichael, Theon Cross, Cassie Kinoshi, Dan Tepfer, Matt Calvert, Jan Bang, Petter Eldh, Otis Sandsjo, Lucia Cadotsch, Magnus Ostrom, John Parricelli, Gregory Privat, Lars Danielsson, Rosie Turton, Makaya Mccraven, Trilok Gurtu, Yuri Daniel, Rainer Bruninghaus, Marcin Wasilewski, Veryan Weston, Mark Sanders, John Edwards, Trevor Watts, Ralph Peterson Jr, Shane Forbes, Daniel Casimir, Andrew Mccormack, Dennis Rollins, Byron Wallen, Courtney Pine, Alex Wilson, Omar Puente, Vinicius Cantuaria, Eliane Elias, Marius Neset, Camilla George, Christian Sands, Jan Garbarek, Brian Lynch Sullivan Fortner, Geoffrey Keezer, Essiet Essiet, Bill Pierce, Bobby Watson, Cecile Mclorin Salvant, Carmen Castaldi, Marilyn Crispell, Chris Potter, Danilo Perez, Dave Holland, Jean Toussaint, Joe Lavano, and many more yet to be announced.
London is one of the world’s most diverse cities. This historic capital of UK has embraced different cultures, tastes and influences from world over, and music is surely no different. With D-Day of London Jazz Festival fast approaching, plan your travel now and book flights to London right away with great discounts from FlyOfinder.
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