Swansea International Jazz Festival

The 2017 festival has 16 venues hosting 56 events this year, the festival has even more venues and events than in previous years and it’s great for the City of Swansea to be hosting the biggest jazz festival in Wales this year. The Maritime Quarter is a fabulous backdrop location for ourww festival and of course there are plenty of accessible car parks and a wide range of hotels and guest houses in the area plus both Swansea bus and Railway stations are close by.
It has been a particularly tough time behind the scenes this year, which left a very short lead in time to make all the arrangements and programming. I hope you enjoy the events lined up for this year.
Thanks to the financial support from our sponsors and partners we have musicians and bands coming to Swansea from USA and Europe along with many of the best British Jazz ensembles. Please do purchase tickets for the top shows as we do need to balance the books and wouldn’t be able to offer such a huge free fringe festival without selling tickets for the main concerts.
The ticketed shows offer a wide variety of different styles and something for everyone and there is plenty of great talent to enjoy on the free fringe events spread all over the Maritime Quarter. I am looking forward to hearing the performance from the South Wales Schools Big band following the workshop Saturday morning.
Great to have all the young musicians from Carmarthen, Swansea and Cardiff & Vale Schools all together.
There is so much great music to look forward to and if we don’t bump into each other over the weekend please do come along to Swansea Jazzland where we continue to present the best of International and UK based jazz musicians every Wednesday night in Swansea.