14 – 20 November
7 days, 5 Venues, 13 events, 40 artists
Music, Workshops
PRESS RELEASE
Within its first year the Limassol Jazz Festival captivated its audience and musicians alike in becoming a highly anticipated happening within the city limits launching a creative platform for international and local artists to entertain, educate, collaborate and communicate an inspirational message of intercultural musical exchange.
In its second year running the Limassol Jazz Festival 2011 will be held from the 14th – 20th of November and consists of three main entities, Music (being the predominant), Open Workshops/Seminars & other art forms. The ‘Limassol Jazz Festival’ is an annual music & arts festival taking place on the third week of November and is quickly becoming a landmark in Cyprus’ cultural landscape and the leading winter Jazz Festival in the Mediterranean and the Middle East region.
With 13 events from Monday-Sunday the festival activities will be presented at 5 multiple varied locations and venues around the city centre ranging from concert hall (Rialto Theatre) to music clubs (7 Seas), (jazzyB) and introducing jazz to a number of new spaces including, the (Londa Hotel) ,and even street corners & city landmarks (Plaza Café & Columbia Plaza) the Limassol Jazz Festival is set to be a landmark in Cyprus’ cultural landscape, launching a creative platform for international and local artists to entertain, educate, collaborate and communicate an inspirational message of intercultural musical exchange.
At the Limassol Jazz Festival 2011 you can catch a mix of premieres, commissions, new collaborations, impromptu jamming sessions, Bi-communal projects, a dance performance, master-classes, family events and an exceptional program of free concerts across the 7 days, with 13 events and over 40 participating artists which make up Limassol’s biggest music festival and Cyprus’ largest celebration of jazz.
As last year, this years Limassol Jazz Festival 2011 sees the participation of some of the most prominent and greatest world renowned local & international Artists. Some of this year’s highlights include:
Marios Takoushis – Gabriel Karapatakis project featuring David Lynch, Zacharias Spyridakis and Stelios Xydias, come together for a commissioned premier comprised of band leaders and contrabassist Gabriel Karapatakis and pianist Marios Takoushis featuring legendary saxophonist David Lynch and Cretan lira virtuoso Zacharias Spyridakis with Stelios Xydias on Drums.“…extending their lyricism and developing new musical fields of interaction…..”
The Amos Hoffman Quartet is one of the greatest Ethnic Jazz groups and the musicians are some of the finest musicians on the scene. Hoffman who himself is unquestionably one of the greatest instrumentalists of our times is a multi award winning and recording Artist and has played and recorded with the likes of Dennis Charles, Evelyn Blakey and Juma Santos and up and coming talents like Jason Lindler, Omer Avital, Sam Newsome, Jay Collins, bassist Avishai Cohen, Duane Eubanks and many others
One of the most fascinating and charismatic pianists to emerge on the Jazz scene in the past few years, the Anna Elis de Jong group meets Nelson Faria Musical bridges between countries through the international language of jazz by the multicultural group that consists of the virtuosi Anna Elis de Jong (piano), Tie Pereira (bass) and Andreas Stefanou (drums) meet the guitarist Nelson Faria in a program based on Brazilian music with jazz influences
Other festival participants include among others The Funk Sessions, The Limassol Jazz Festival All Stars Band, Marinos Neofytou, The JazzyB House Band, Leonid Nestorov, Evilena Protektor, Cuba Tropical Sextet and many more.……
Impromptu jamming sessions between the Artists are also expected!
Without doubt the most impressive collaboration of artists ever to take place on the island. Don’t miss this opportunity to enjoy some of todays greatest ever musicians performing live in Limassol!!
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