Jazzaldia, San Sebastian, One Of The World's Top Annual Jazz Festivals
Herbie Hancock Quintet on stage at the Kursaal Auditorium, San Sebastian
AUG 23, 2017 @ 07:30 AM
Joanne Shurvell
A highlight of our travels each year is a music festival, usually jazz, that doesn't involve camping, mud and massive crowds of Glastonbury-like proportions. Memorable past festivals include the Radio France Festival at Montpellier (presenting jazz, classical, electronic and world music), the FMM (Festivas Musica do Mundo) in Sines and Porto Covo, Portugal and the Marseille Jazz Festival.
This year we were extremely impressed by the breadth and content of the programme and the setting of Jazzaldia, in San Sebastian, northern Spain. San Sebastian (also known as Donostia in the Basque language) is a lovely town with tree-lined boulevards and a river leading to the sea. It has also been the location for the last 52 years of an annual jazz festival that has hosted many of the top names in jazz, alongside an admirable lineup of emerging artists. Last year's headliners included Gloria Gaynor, Diana Krall and Branford Marsalis.
read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanneshurvell/2017/08/23/jazzaldia-san-sebastian-one-of-the-worlds-top-annual-jazz-festivals/
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