Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Jazzinty 2008

Another festival summer in Novo mesto has started. And yes, it is rather festive. This week, the town and LokalPatriot are, for the 9th time, hosting Jazzinty Festival and Workshop.

In eight years of steadfast evolution, Jazzinty has grown from the initial workshop to an extensive production, which combines four complexes: music workshop, jazz festival, competition for composition award Jazzon and the cycle of jazz concerts. The central complex remains the Jazzinty Workshop, one of the biggest music workshops in Slovenia and beyond, which includes 12 basic categories and a cast of over ten internationally acclaimed home and foreign mentors. The programme offers six consecutive days of intensive music education, combining level lectures, group and individual work with mentors, public rehearsals and performances, playing in »combo« bands, jam sessions and the final concert. Essential mission of Jazzinty is encouraging of creativity: opening new doors and views on music.

The workshop is accompanied by the Festival Jazzinty, which brings attractive concerts of mentors and other invited artists, concerts of the young and perspective Slovene jazz bands, the final concert of Jazzon composition award and accompanying programme at various venues. Jazzinty is taking place every summer in Novo mesto, Slovenia, the juncture of Eastern and Western European cultures. In August Novo mesto offers a pleasant and peaceful shelter with its historic town’s centre, surrounded by the green river Krka. The wokshop and festival are taking place at various venues around the old part of town, such as Marjan Kozina Music School, Club LokalPatriot, the beautiful Museum Gardens, Bookstore Goga atrium, contemporary art gallery Simulaker and picturesque Main Square.

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