All that jazz
A guide to the Cape Town International Jazz Festival
With five stages, 40 acts spread over two days and more than 30,000 fans expected, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival can be a bewildering, if exhilarating, experience. Here’s a guide to the fourth-largest jazz festival in the world and some performances worth catching
Cape Town International Jazz Festival director Billy Domingo is fond of describing the event as a "lifestyle festival". And over the years — this will be its 18th iteration — the range of nonconcert festival activities has grown exponentially. In the week before the festival, Cape Town offers a golf day and a jazz and fashion gala (March 30), as well as the joyous atmosphere of the free community concert featuring festival artists on Greenmarket Square (March 29). A programme of jazz-related workshops that began for Cape Town high-school music learners in February includes prebooked seminars for arts journalists, photojournalists and others throughout the week, which will end on Sunday April 2 with the launch of a jazz project in Langa. The Artscape complex hosts a music photography exhibition that opens on March 30. The festival itself is staged at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Friday March 31 and Saturday April 1, with four concerts a night on each of the five s...
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