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Jazz-Espa offers the hottest jazz in Helsinki once again at the turn of July and August. In addition to current jazz concerts, the week-long urban festival from July 29 to August 3, 2024, features interesting discussions about the future of jazz and music journalism. A new highlight of the anniversary year is Jazz- Espa's Children's Saturday, with concerts suitable for the whole family.
Known for its intimate and experimental nature, Korpo Sea Jazz showcases some of the most intriguing names in contemporary Finnish jazz, such as the internationally renowned jazz guitarist Olli Soikkeli and the young virtuoso Maja Mannila. The festival includes individual concerts and free events held around historical sites in the Korpo archipelago, surrounded by nature and the sea.
Odysseus Festival, dedicated to adventurous music, moves to a new environment at the Culture Factory Korjaamo, where the event will take place over two days on July 19–20. The event will not feature "alternative music," "marginal music," or "world music."
The cozy and high-quality SaloJazz Festival will be held for the thirteenth time at the end of September during the market weekend.
Suzanne is a collective voice that brings together violist Maëlle Desbrosses, bass clarinettist Hélène Duret and guitarist Pierre Tereygeol in their quest for folk songs of the new century. In July 2024, the French trio heads to Estonia and Finland for a new episode of the Europe Jazz Network’s (EJN) Green Pilot Tour program.
Clarinetist Antti Sarpila and saxophonist Pekka Toivanen were awarded the Finnish Jazz Legend prizes on June 27, 2024, in Imatra. The award can be given to a musician who has made a significant career as a jazz performer, composer, arranger, or conductor and is still actively performing.
As the first event in the Archipelago Sea Jazz festival series, Baltic Jazz will resound on the first weekend of July in the historic ironworks milieu of Taalintehdas in Kemiönsaari. This cozy family event, held since 1987, focuses especially on classic swinging jazz and features both international artists and local flair.
Pori Jazz 2024 kicks off on Friday, July 12th, and as usual, it features a diverse array of free concerts in addition to the ticketed performances.
Helsinki's Alppipuisto is filled again by picnic parties when the Alppipuiston kesä (Alppipuisto Summer) event series fills the park once more in July.
In addition to the 80th birthday concert held at the Savonlinna Saimaa Jazz Festival on June 30, 2024, the band will perform on June 27 at Lasipalatsi Square in Helsinki and on July 1 at Koli Seurojentalo.
