National Youth Jazz Festival

National Youth Jazz Festival

The National Arts Festival has been running in Grahamstown (Eastern Cape, South Africa www.nafest.co.za ) since 1974, and is the world’s second-largest single cultural festival, attracting performers in all art forms from around South Africa and all over the world.

It attracts a heterogeneous audience of over 140 000 from around the country, who cram into what is normally a small settler town best known for its academic and legal institutions. Performance venues are thus created in any available venue (school and church halls etc.) and accommodation is at a premium.

History

The Jazz Festival—sponsored by Standard Bank—has been running since 1989, and the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival (NYJF) has been in existence since 1991. The two festivals now run as a single entity, organised by the same administrative team.

The Standard Bank Jazz Festival runs for the full 10 days of the National Arts Festival in a variety of jazz styles. The festival incorporates the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival for the first six days to bring together more than three hundred young jazz musicians, thirty-five jazz educators and eighty jazz performers from around the world.

Intention

The intention of the festival is to develop South African jazz by: 1) providing educational opportunities for young players. 2) encouraging artistic integrity and creativity on the Main Stage. 3) creating a forum for South African musicians to network with peers from around the country and with foreign musicians. 4) providing audiences with interesting, quality jazz.

The festival lasts nearly a week, incorporating jazz performance, rehearsals, workshops, lectures, networking and an opportunity for South Africa’s future jazz stars to interact personally and musically with their peers and other performers.

The festival has hosted many of South Africa’s leading jazz musicians over the past 16 years, as well as musicians and teachers from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Britain, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Mexico, Mozambique, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, the US and Zimbabwe.

South African jazz students audition for places in the Standard Bank National Schools Big Band and the National Youth Jazz Band (NYJB). The NYJB performs regularly at festivals around South Africa—Grahamstown, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban—and has performed in New York, Sweden and the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Netherlands.

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