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Name Year Location Notes Image Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival: 1969–present Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. Beaulieu Jazz Festival: 1956–61 Beaulieu, Hampshire, UK
D. DC Jazz Festival. Denton Arts and Jazz Festival. Detroit International Jazz Festival. DjangoFest.
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) organization that presents the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The foundation was formed in 1970 as the festival's nonprofit arm. Festival founders George Wein, Quint Davis and Allison Miner trusted that Jazz Fest would be a success, despite a slow start in ticket sales.
Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, state fairs, ribfests, and strawberry festivals. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. [1]
The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It debuted on October 3, 1958, championed by Dave Brubeck [2] and co-founded by jazz and popular music critic Ralph J. Gleason [3] and jazz disc jockey Jimmy Lyons. [2]
Jazz (word) 2024 in jazz. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical ...
Category:Jazz festivals. Category. : Jazz festivals. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jazz festivals. This category is for jazz festivals, which are music festivals featuring jazz. This is a container category only, and all topics should be moved to appropriate subcategories by locale.
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