Cafe Pori Jazz is a summer oasis open to everyone, offering a comfortable environment for enjoying leisurely moments and delicious meals. With the new restaurant, Pori Jazz wants to be part of the Pori summer also outside the festival week, and the goal is to offer customers the same relaxed atmosphere for which the festival is known nationwide.
Cafe Pori Jazz is open seven days a week. During the day, the café-restaurant serves as a peaceful setting for a summer day, but towards the evening the cafe moves to a more gradual and sparkling atmosphere. On weekends, Cafe Pori Jazz offers live music. The program will be built following the corona situation, and summer concerts will be announced in the coming weeks. The concerts are held on the terrace of the restaurant, where Pori Jazz brings a suitable, specially built and beautiful tent canopy in the spirit of the Art Nouveau villa.
The official opening weekend of Cafe Pori Jazz will be celebrated in June, when the corona situation will hopefully allow for small-scale cultural events. However, the café-restaurant will open its doors and terrace to customers as early as May.
Pori Jazz and the coronavirus situation
The coronavirus pandemic has been coloring everyday life for more than a year, and question marks are currently hovering over the coming summer. However, preparations for Pori Jazz Festival are progressing with the hopeful goal that the audience will be able to enjoy music and culture in Pori's Kirjurinluoto next summer.
Pori Jazz monitors the development of the situation and participates in several different discussions in which measures are considered for organizing safe summer events. The safety of visitors and all stakeholders is an absolute value for Pori Jazz, but at the same time the festival organizers want to be creative and try to find different ways to organize concerts after the middle of last summer. In addition to serving the audience, Pori Jazz wants to offer work to musicians as well as the festival's partners, many of whom have been in a difficult situation for the past year.
Pori Jazz will make solutions and guidelines for the summer in the coming weeks. There will certainly be extraordinary arrangements in the future, and flexibility is certainly needed from the audience, performers and organizers alike. Further information on the situation and arrangements of Pori Jazz will be updated as soon as possible.