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29. Jazz Cerkno, May 16-18 2024
Cerkno – a town in the middle of picturesque nature: beautiful, breathtaking and harmonious, but at the same time unpredictable, idiosyncratic and whimsical. The Jazz Cerkno festival has been bringing exactly this kind of music to curious listeners since 1996. This year will be no different, with ten jazz concerts by musicians from nine countries taking place from May 16-18. As is typical for the festival, we invite creative musicians who take jazz as a starting point for a bold confrontation with a diverse range of other genres and creative approaches. This year, the festival stages will offer combinations of jazz with many other genres, from experimental and avant-garde electronics, which will seek out in real time the sounds of organic instruments, through atmospheric, film score-like minimalist music and modern classical, to inspired free and spiritual jazz and Ethiopian traditional music. The accompanying program this year offers a variety of events including a Jazzohod (a guided hike with a concert), a music workshop for children with a final concert, a sound walk, a presentation of a jazz book, additional concerts and afterparties following the concert program.
29. Jazz Cerkno – a festival of breathtaking and harmonious, yet unpredictable and whimsical music!
Organization and production:
Zavod Jazz Cerkno
Trg prekomorskih brigad 1
SI-5282 Cerkno, Slovenija
+386 (0)5 374 53 34
info@jazzcerkno.si
Program board: Simon Kenda, Anja Figelj, Mario Batelić, Miha Zadnikar
Texts: Mario Batelić
Graphic design: Karlo Medjugorac (design), Andrej Juvan / Premedia (DTP), Jure Lavrin / Loopa (animacija)
Jazz Cerkno is a member of Europe Jazz Network.
The organizer holds the right to change the scheduled program.
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More about Jazz Cerkno festival
The main music event organised by Jazz Cerkno has been taking place annually in mid-May since 1996 (between Thursday and Saturday). The festival venue is the square “star plac” in the centre of Cerkno. Three evenings of programme present various musicians and artists from all over the world, established and unknown, all of them united in finding new ways in jazz music and thus widening their horizons. The festival as such is important not only for the musical challenges and pleasures it grants, but also for representing the current trends in jazz music in general. Jazz, heard in Cerkno is never unambiguous, because the programme emphasises the unconventional and creative music, the collision of cultures and music practices, confrontation of various approaches where jazz often comes across other music forms and assumes different elements from them.
Rock, electronic music, modern and old classical music, experimental music, various traditional types of music and much more: all of it can be found in various combinations with jazz as such in the motley programme of the Jazz Cerkno festival. It is never self-limited by genre purity or orthodoxy. Special attention is paid to Slovene musicians and many bands or musicians had their first project presentation in front of the public in Cerkno. The same is true for foreign musicians who expanded the sonority limits and tore down the boundaries among genre and other conventions. All Jazz Cerkno festival concerts are exclusive in Slovenia. The festival programme is enriched by various workshops, exhibitions and similar event. The festival is also well known for its lively after-party.