This summer we will mark the 58th year with the traditional Jazz Festival in Ljubljana. The evenings will be marked by established and rising jazz stars - those from home and those from further afield. The 58th Jazz Festival Ljubljana will take place from June 28 to July 2, 2017, and tickets are already available. It is also possible to buy a ticket for the entire festival.
The third largest city in the United States is less well known than its bigger "brothers" New York and Los Angeles. The city, which paints the river green in March when the vast Irish community celebrates St. Patrick's Day, "boasts" the nickname the Windy City, and writer Nelson Algren described it as "an October city, even when it's spring." But Chicago offers much more than green water and cool breezes. Chicago is a wonderful blend of modern architecture and lifestyle that makes art out of city life.
For an exclusive performance in Cankarjev dom, the musicians of the Fake Orchestra group will replace electric instruments with acoustic ones and in a ten-member line-up with guests and singer Ana Vipotnik at the head, they will present more and less well-known folk songs from various Slovenian regions, naturally in new clothes.
Objective IX. The Slovenian jazz festival presents the Slovenian jazz creativity of the past year in one place in a few days. This way we will be able to listen to excellent local jazz players.
On January 6th, all fans of swing music will be able to listen to one of the most popular orchestras in the world in the Gallus Hall. The Glenn Miller Orchestra, which has already performed more than 5,000 concerts in Europe, is returning to Slovenia next year as part of the Jukebox Saturday Night tour. Tickets are already on sale.
From May 10 to 21, Cerkno will be covered in the sounds and rhythms of jazz for the twenty-first time in a row. Namely, the 21st International Jazz Festival Cerkno (2016) will take place.
The Cerkno Jazz Festival 2020 will take place between September 17 and 19 in the parking lot at Stara ETI, in accordance with the strict health measures of the National Institute of Public Health.
Spring 2018. Coast. The girls, musicians by heart and profile, came up with the idea of a big band. The boys, locals from Marezig, came to their aid with a space for rehearsals, first notes and experience. The internationally renowned saxophonist Lovro Ravbar took over the artistic direction of the newly formed big band, and the group of "bandits and bandits" has been creating together for a good half year.
Enoch Jamal "EJ" Strickland is a world-renowned drummer and composer, an artist who can be heard on more than 60 albums over the past ten years.
Saxophonist Lovro Ravbar certainly belongs to the very top of the Slovenian music scene and does not limit himself to strict stylistic guidelines.
Igor Lumpert is a Slovenian musician living in New York who boasts a velvety saxophone sound. You will be able to listen to his melodies on November 2 at 9:00 PM in the Jazz Club Ljubljanski grad.
Dramatic actor and famous impersonator Klemen Slakonja will once again try his hand as a singer, and you will be able to hear him on October 19 at 9:00 pm at Jazz Club Ljubljanski grad.