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Due to the exceptional year 2020, the program of Jeppis Jazz Festival will include only domestic artists. The festival has a comprehensive program for various jazz players, especially from the Ostrobothnia region. Every night there will be jam sessions where artists and local musicians get to play together.
The concert series, co-produced by April Jazz and the exhibition center WeeGee, brings top Finnish jazz to the museum environment. Live music is played on the first Friday nights of the month in an afterwork spirit, with free admission to concerts and WeeGee museums. During the autumn, the record releases of Elifantree and Riitta Paakki Quartet will be celebrated at Weegee, and the new Finnish line-up of Iiro Rantala and Maja Mannila will perform among others.
Kotka Jazz's autumn program has been announced.
The Jazztori Festival, organized by Lahti Big Band, will be held from September 25th to October 3rd. Several top Finnish names are coming to Lahti, as well as interesting international guests.
The 8th Porvoo Jazz Festival, which presents a wide range of jazz genres, will begin on Friday 25 September. The venues of the festival are the event's own home stage Vanha 123, the pop-up club 123 Kellari on its lower floor, and Porvoo Art Hall, with which the festival is collaborating for the first time this year.
The main event of Jazzklubi -76 in the autumn, the first edition of Ilosaari Jazz Festival, will be held as individual concerts due to the pandemic. Despite the changes, Jazzkerho -76 will offer a full-fledged and artistically high-quality program over the weekend.
The SaloJazz Festival will be held this year, but in a compact form. The 2020 festival, the ninth edition of the event, will be held as a series of three concerts with Finnish performers on the last Saturday in September.
The recipient of the 2020 composition grant of the Church Music Composers' Association and UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra has been selected. The grant recipient will compose a five-minute work for UMO Helsinki's 16-member big band in the Silent Music church concert series for Easter 2022. Nine applications were received by the deadline.
The music of Gothenburg-based Dark Horse bends towards deep, experimental waters. Their newest single Brutet Groove gives a taste of the band's upcoming Listen album, which will be released in November by We Jazz and celebrated on December 3rd at We Jazz Festival.
The 7-day We Jazz Festival will be held from November 29th to December 5th. The festival program will feature ambient jazz pioneer Tapani Rinne, who will celebrate his new album at Helsinki Contemporary on December 3rd.
