Jarasum International Jazz Festival

The Jarasum International Jazz Festival (Korean: 자라섬국제재즈페스티벌) is an annual Jazz Festival in South Korea. The festival began in 2004 with 30 teams of jazz artists from 12 countries. Well established as a significant international festival, every year, over 100,000 people visit this particularly popular festival and 95% of the attendees are actually previous visitors.[1] In 2014, the festival ran from from Friday, October 3 to Sunday, October 5. Jarasum (which means "terrapin island" in Korean) is located in the center of the Korean peninsula.

Jarasum International Jazz Festival
GenreJazz festival
DatesOctober 3 ~ 5
Location(s)Jarasum, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Years active2004-present
Attendanceover 200,000
WebsiteOfficial Website

The main lineup for 2014 included Maceo Parker, Paquito D’Rivera and Trio Corrente, The Yellowjackets, Allan Holdsworth, Terje Rypdal and Ketil Bjørnstad, Joachim Kühn, Dominic Miller, Mathias Eick, Tord Gustavsen, Jan Lundgren, Gregoire Maret and Jazz Connection.[2]

See also

Notes
  1. "Jarasum International Jazz Festival", Official Site of Korea Tourism Organization.
  2. "Jarasum International Jazz Festival Artist" Archived 2010-09-05 at the Wayback Machine, Official Site of Jarasum International Jazz Festival.
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