Let’s Get Lost
At a time when many seem to have lost their sense of adventures, when
Trip Advisor tells us where to go, when we trust a weather app more than
our own eyes, when people search for partners via social media and
Spotify tells us which songs are essential in our own playlist, the Jazz
& The City Festival invites everyone to leave their filter bubbles
and to just go with the flow.
Meticulous planning will certainly get you lost here - and that's
exactly what it’s all about! "Let's get lost" is the theme of the 19th
edition of this festival for Jazz, World & Electronic Music.
100 concerts at over 40 locations, all with free admission? On the five
days of the festival the old town of Salzburg puts a very special side
on display, with a variety one should hardly suspect behind the
picturesque backdrop along the Salzach. Old workshops in the middle of
the Getreidegasse, party cellars under baroque churches, the Salzburg
Landestheater, the Mozarteum University next to the iconic guitar shop,
the Künstlerhaus with open studios, inns and hotels. All of these places
and spaces are being reimagined by over 200 musicians from all over the
world, united for a few days in this setting and with plenty of
artistic freedom. In addition to fixed parts of the program, there also
are a number of "blind dates", where it will only be decided who will
play with who until right before their start. The artists can meet
spontaneously at the festival and try out this encounter in front of the
audience. The different rooms with their acoustic challenges often
become the third player. Ideally, discoveries at festivals are simply a
part of it - at Jazz & The City this is programmatically pushed to
the extreme, as there are no genre stages and no categories, no
guidelines according to the motto: "If you like this, you will like
that, too."
Instinct, curiosity, spontaneity and an open heart for unexpected
encounters with music, good people and good places are the ingredients
for a festival that you will not forget!
World music as well as local flavors and baroque organ sounds are just
as much at home here as improvised music, DJ sets until late at night,
city tours with music as well as concerts in contemporary art
exhibitions.
The finale on Sunday afternoon in the Mirabell garden is also a tribute
to the beauty of improvisation and to the desire to be enchanted.
Intendant Tina Heine: „The finale of the festival will be curated by the
musicians themselves. Over the course of the week, they will have time
to think about - and develop together - where and when they will play. I
myself will stay out, will go with the flow and I invite all festival
visitors to do the same.“
For those who do not want to go entirely without applications and
digital navigation the Jazz & The City Festival App is highly
recommended. It is a good companion through the musical pleasure garden
of the 'Salzburg Old Town' on these festival days
from www.europejazz.net
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