KAUNAS JAZZ

The International Jazz Festival Kaunas Jazz takes place in Kaunas, Vilnius, Raudondvaris (Kaunas District), Panevezys, Palanga, Jurbarkas, Birstonas, Zasliai (Kaisiadorys District) in late April.The Festival team elaborate the traditional projects and supplement them with new forms and additional content. The Festival offers paid and free concerts of performers whose musical biographies are charged with fame and success. During its 30 years, Kaunas Jazz became a leader in ‘importing' jazz stars as well as an expert presenter of Lithuanian jazz virtuosos, which implies the tradition pursued by Kaunas Jazz to open its stages to both well-known Lithuanian jazz pearls and young talented musicians. Even though Kaunas Jazz is a jazz festival, it embraces stylistic variations and projects where there is a link to academic music, exotic sounds and/or most recent trends of popular youth music... Kaunas Jazz is also engaged in educational activities. The first international academic conference..

Primary location: Kaunas Lithuania