Swansea International Jazz Festival 2016

Friday 17th to Sunday 19th June 2016
various venues, Swansea Maritime Quarter, Swansea, SA1 1TY, Wales MAP
varies depending upon event

Last updated: Tue 10th May 2016

Swansea International Jazz Festival returns for the 3rd year this summer over the weekend Friday 17th to Sunday 19th June 2016.

Line-up

Expect around 50 events taking place at 12 venues located in the Swansea Maritime Quarter. The Dylan Thomas Theatre will host the ticketed concerts with a diverse programme of Jazz featuring Artists from USA, Europe and Australia. Plus, Jazz workshops, South Wales Schools Big Band workshop and concert and free events all over the Maritime Quarter.

Alan Barnes Octet, Pee Wee Ellis Funk Assembly, Alec Dankworth’s Spanish Accents, Keith Ball and his Jazzmen and Darius Brubeck Quartet, Jeff Hooper Big Band, Janet Seidel, Moscow Drug Club, UK National Youth Jazz Orchestra, and 360 - a 10-piece jazz funk band featuring Hamish Stuart, Steve Ferrone and Malcolm 'Molly' Duncan - original members of The Average White Band.

Tickets

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Tickets prices vary depending upon event.

Swansea's weekly jazz club, Swansea Jazzland, presents the festival in partnership with Arts Council of Wales, City and County of Swansea and University of Wales Trinity St David and media partners, South Wales Evening Post. Festival Patron Sir Karl Jenkins, commented, "2015 saw the second Swansea Jazz Festival, of which I am proud to be Patron. The event was a huge success. Swansea has no opera house, and no symphony orchestra, with little prospect of either being established in the near future, if ever. We can make Swansea ‘special’ and be proud of the ‘unique’ Swansea Jazz Festival."

There will be more information here when it becomes available.