Baltic Jazz

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The Baltic Jazz festival is one of the summer's highlights in the archipelago of Turku, Finland. It started in 1987 when Jazz-music enthusiasts in the village Dalsbruk (fin. Taalintehdas) arranged a local festival. [1] By the mid 2010's the festival had grown to be one of the biggest jazz festivals in Finland. [2] It takes place two weeks after midsummer, usually the second weekend in July. [3]

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Reception

Lauri Karvonen of Helsingin Sanomat wrote in the early 1990s that the atmosphere of the Baltic Jazz event resembled that of the early years of Pori Jazz, and that despite minimal marketing it had grown into not only a significant jazz event but also the most important tourism event for the small locality — attracting, for example, around 6,000 festival visitors in 1992. While Pori Jazz had at that time begun courting the rock generation with acts such as Ringo Starr, Karvonen praised Baltic Jazz for sticking to Finnish jazz, emphasizing traditional swing and Dixieland. [4] [5]

Artists who have performed at Baltic Jazz

References

  1. ↑ "Welcome to Dalsbruk on Kimito Island!".
  2. ↑ Johansson, Icedor (2013-07-11). "Baltic Jazz Festival med sommarkänslor | Orkesterjournalen" (in Swedish). Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  3. ↑ "Baltic Jazz, Taalintehdas". Finland Festivals. Retrieved 2025-11-17.
  4. ↑ "Idealistien harrastuksesta lupaavaksi jazzvaihtoehdoksi. Baltic Jazz kompensoi suurten jazzfestivaalien vesittymistä".
  5. 1 2 "Baltic Jazzin odotettu muodonmuutos. Letkeähenkisestä turistijuhlasta on hyvän yleisömenestyksen myötä kasvamassa kunnianhimoinen ja varteenotettava jazz-tapahtuma".
  6. 1 2 archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921193159/http://jazzrytmit.com/wp/s16-festivaalit/c51-festarit/taalintehtaalla-juhlittiin-triplasti/%7Carkistoitu=2017-09-21}}
  7. ↑ Osoite = https://svenska.yle.fi/a/7-697627 | Nimeke = Bo Kaspers orkester och Eva Dahlgren lockade i Åbo| Tekijä = Engström, Nora | Ajankohta = 27.8.2013| Julkaisu = Svenska Yle| Viitattu = 30.12.2022 }}
  8. ↑ Karvonen, Lauri (1995-07-10). "Bebop rantautui Taalintehtaalle. Vokalistit hallitsivat yhdeksänsiä Baltic Jazz -festivaaleja". Helsingin Sanomat: 24.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Östvall, Runo (2015-07-08). "Den enda klassiska jazzfestivalen i Finland". Jazzrytmit. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
  10. 1 2 Stolpe, Maud (2013-05-02). "Baltic Jazz i ny skepnad". Svenska Yle. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
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