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] This 2014, the festival runs from October 3 (Friday) to October 5 (Sunday)at Jarasum (which means "terrapin island" in Korean) 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

Main line up for 2014 included Maceo Parker, Paquito D’Rivera and Trio Corrente, The Yellowjackets, Allan Holdsworth, Terje Rypdal & 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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