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Let yourself go with Barcelona Jazz Festival 2011
Let yourself go with Barcelona Jazz Festival 2011
The Barcelona International Jazz Festival is of Europe's premier jazz events with world class performers playing over 75 concerts in 2011.
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09/08/2011
The Barcelona International Jazz Festival is of Europe's premier jazz events with world class performers playing over 75 concerts in 2011. The Barcelona jazz festival takes place in fifteen different venues in Barcelona, including L’Auditori, Sala Bikini, Jamboree, the Palau de la Música and the Harlem Jazz Club. Furthermore, the parallel music cycle "Finestra", the festival offers a series of shows that outside from the jazz genre. In 2011 the BCN jazz festival collaborates with the legendary Italian Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia to present "top Italian jazz" with names like pianist Stefano Bollani and trumpeters Enrico Rava and Paolo Fresu performing in Barcelona.
Dates of Barcelona Jazz Festival 2011
Barcelona Jazz Festival 2011 will be taking place from October to December 2011. The exact dates have not yet been released.
Venue
For 43 years Barcelona has played host to an annual jazz festival. The festival takes place in venues all over town and you will need to buy individual tickets for each event – there is not one ticket that covers the whole event. Other years saw the likes of Wayne Shorter, Jimmy Cobb, Marcus Miller and Kings of Convenience on the line-up.
Depending on your budget, you should be able to find something on the line-up to quench your thirst to listen to some live jazz music – venues vary from the grand Palau de la Musica to small smoky bars like Jamboree and Harlem Jazz Club.
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