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2009 NORTH SEA JAZZ Rotterdam
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NORTH SEA JAZZ ROTTERDAM 2009 North Sea Jazz Festival Packages 2009 North Sea Jazz Festival Program announced! A unique, historic festival! The first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague. Some numbers in those early days: six venues, three hundred artists and about nine thousand visitors. In this very first festival year internationally renowned jazz legends performed, such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, as well as most Dutch avant-garde artists. In the intervening years, the North Sea Jazz Festival has developed into a major international jazz event. Over the years the numbers have increased to: fifteen venues, approximately thirteen hundred artists and a visitors number that varies between sixty-five thousand and seventy thousand every year. Since 2006 the festival has found a new and more spacious location: Ahoy Rotterdam. North Sea Jazz is known all over the world because of the many musical genres it has to offer, ranging from traditional New Orleans jazz, swing, bop, free jazz, fusion, avant-garde jazz and electronic jazz; to blues, gospel, funk, soul, R&B, hip hop, world beat and Latin. All of which are presented during a single weekend: 10, 11 and 12 July 2009. Besides familiar names like Nat Adderley, Erykah Badu, Paul Anka, Steve Coleman, Miles Davis, Candy Dulfer, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ella Fitzgerald, Alicia Keys, Lionel Hampton, Al Jarreau, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Jamiroquai and The Zawinul Syndicate, the North Sea Jazz Festival also gives young talent a chance to make it on a major stage. Some names of artists who were introduced to a European audience: Shirley Horn, Tania Maria, Roy Hargrove and Rachelle Ferrell. This is what makes North Sea Jazz so unique – a festival where for three days the past, the present and the future of jazz music are presented, all under one roof The festival concept, as it has developed over the past thirty years, will be continued in the new location, Ahoy’ Rotterdam. On 16 stages, all named after rivers and varying in capacity from 100 till 10.000 visitors, more than 60 concerts will take place daily. Off course the emphasis will stay on the wide diversity of jazz; from New Orleans, swing and bop to fusion, improvised music and electronic jazz. In addition, jazz related styles as blues, soul, funk, hip hop, Latin-jazz and world beat will be presented as well.The maximum amount of visitors will stay the same as last years; 23.000 daily. Because the floor area of the new festival venue Ahoy’ is bigger than that of the old venue in The Hague, the total set-up of the festival will be more specious than before. More seats will be created in the concert rooms, sightlines will be improved and passageways will be broadened. But the unique, intimate atmosphere will be preserved. The extensive variety of shops, diversity in catering, art exhibitions, jazz documentaries and the internet café will return in Ahoy’ next year. Familiar events like the Buhrmann Midsummer Jazz Gala, workshops by international artists, finales of the Dutch Jazz Competition, performance of the North Sea composition assignment and the presentation of the Bird Awards will be part of the program again. AHOY ROTTERDAM, Netherlands Site: 16 indoor/outdoor stages; 60 concerts (23,000 persons per day). Music: A veritable Jazz Woodstock. The largest gathering of straight-ahead jazz in Europe all year. North Sea spans the spectrum of Blues, Fusion, Gospel, and Soul. Musicians love the festival because they get to see, hear and often jam with each other. Festival Style: A veritable jazz smorgasbord of 60 concerts. Special Events: Workshops, Exhibitions, Photos, student workshops at The North Sea Jazz Festival
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