The Festival

O Festival

INTRODUCTION

The ANGRAJAZZ – International Jazz Festival of Angra do Heroísmo, is an event organized by a non-profit cultural association – Associação Cultural Angrajazz – with the support of the Municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, the Regional Government of the Azores through the Regional Directorate of Culture and the Regional Directorate of Tourism, as well as private sponsors.

It takes place annually in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, a city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean considered a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The first edition was held in October 1999, and since then, it has been held annually around the October 5th holiday.

Until 2003, the festival was held in the cloister of an 18th-century convent, which houses the Museum of Angra do Heroísmo. From that year onwards, Angrajazz moved to the Cultural and Congress Center of Angra do Heroísmo, a former bullring renovated into a cultural center.

The semi-circular auditorium is transformed into a large jazz club, with a capacity for 550 people, where the musicians are very close to the audience, creating a very genuine and intimate atmosphere.

OBJECTIVES

Angrajazz is a deliberately generalist festival, whose main objective is to promote and develop a taste for jazz in the Azores, while also establishing a presence in the annual national jazz calendar due to its high quality.

Some of the concerts held over the various editions of this festival have been listed among the best concerts of the year in Portugal, as determined by national critics.

The Associação Cultural Angrajazz has also organized, during the festival, training sessions for local bands, as well as other parallel activities – conferences, exhibitions, cinema, and others.

As a result of some of these training sessions, the ORQUESTRA ANGRAJAZZ was formed in July 2002, making its first appearance at the festival’s fourth edition, under the direction of musicians and teachers Pedro Moreira and Claus Nymark.

DESIGNATION

ANGRAJAZZ – INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL OF ANGRA DO HEROISMO

ORGANIZATION

  • Associação Cultural Angrajazz
  • Municipality of Angra do Heroísmo

PRODUCTION AND ARTISTIC DIRECTION

José Ribeiro Pinto, Miguel Cunha, Rui Borba, Luis Mendes, Rui Melo

VENUE

CULTURAL AND CONGRESS CENTER OF ANGRA DO HEROÍSMO
Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal

  • Main Auditorium – capacity of 550 seats, organized as a large jazz club.
  • Small Auditorium/Cinema – capacity of 158 seats
  • Main Foyer with 300 square meters (exhibitions, merchandising, and CD sales)
  • Piano bar with terrace.

SCHEDULE

2024, October 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th

SUPPORT/SPONSORS/FINANCIAL SUPPORT

  • Municipality of Angra do Heroísmo
  • Regional Directorate of Culture
  • Regional Directorate of Tourism
  • Private sponsors
  • Ticket sales and merchandising

CURRENT EDITION 2024

25th ANGRAJAZZ

  • ORQUESTRA ANGRAJAZZ com/feat. Perico Sambeat
  • CAMILLA GEORGE QUARTET
  • MÁRIO LAGINHA e JOÃO PAULO ESTEVES DA SILVA
  • CATHERINE RUSSELL QUARTET
  • VIJAY IYER TRIO
  • BEN ROSENBLUM . NEBULA PROJECT
  • RICARDO TOSCANO QUARTETO + ENSEMBLE AH direcção/direction Pedro Moreira
  • ANGRAJAZZ LEGACY QUINTET com/feat. Francesco Cafiso
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