Swansea International Jazz Festival 2018

Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th June 2018
various venues, Swansea Maritime Quarter, Swansea, SA1 1TY, Wales MAP
varies depending upon event

Last updated: Wed 2nd May 2018

Swansea International Jazz Festival returns for the 5th year this summer over the weekend Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th June 2018.

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.

Confirmed ticketed acts are:- Laurence Cottle with his All star Big Band, Pete Long, Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses, Daniel Marques, Jim Rotondi, Tina May & Lee Gibson, Songs of Wes (Montgomery), The Toots Project, The James Taylor Quartet, Derek Nash and Noel McCalla, and Pee Wee Ellis with his Funk Assembly Band.

Tickets

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More Info

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.