The 46th Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival prioritizes quality and connection with the public in its proposal for 2023
The Minister for Culture and Language Policy, Bingen Zupiria, has participated in the presentation of the 46th edition of the Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival which, from 1 July, will showcase more than 50 performances, most of them free.
The Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival has prioritized quality and connection with the public for the poster of the 46th edition, which for a week will take jazz to every corner of the city. In total more than 50 performances that will begin on Saturday, July 1 in a musical, festive and free day that the Vitoria-Gasteiz Jazz Festival to warm the soul. Under the name of Jazza Parkean, the Prado Park will host twelve hours of uninterrupted music, whose culmination will come from the hand of the legendary Jamaican group The Skatalites. In these surroundings the first edition of HerriJazz Ibiltaria will be presented, an initiative of the SGAE Foundation, through the Territorial Council of SGAE Euskadi, focused on the promotion of new jazz formations and their dissemination throughout different locations of the Basque Country and Navarre. Within the framework of the Jazza Parkean programme, the first of the 5 planned concerts will be held. At 6pm on 1 July the quintet Eira & Band, will perform, with students of Musikene and led by Eider Elorza.
Jazz Up is another initiative organized in collaboration with the associations Jazzteiz and Gasteiz On with concerts of local musicians in different squares and locations of Vitoria-Gasteiz. From Monday 3 to Friday 7, at 1.30 and 7.30 pm, in places such as the Plaza de la Memoria, the Virgen Blanca, the pools of Mendizorroza there will be groups such as Edder, Joyful Gospel or Arimagazz. On Sunday, July 2, the Casa Solariega de Otazu, in Zurbano will host a concert by the trio of Javier Garayalde, Luis Giménez and Marcelo Escrich within the Jazz en Cuadrilla cycle. Jazz on the street will be handled by Hip Horns Brass Collective, a Catalan band formed by three generations of experienced jazz musicians. The Midnight Jazz with the traditional jam sessions at the Hotel Silken Ciudad de Vitoria will begin at midnight from Wednesday to Saturday directed by the young and virtuoso pianist Aaron Diehl Trio. Also, six clubs in Vitoria-Gasteiz complete the varied one-week free offer that is going to overflow with jazz.
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