Elbjazz festival is a grand jazz festival and an exciting summer event conducted during the last week of May, every year, on the River Elb. This is an open air event which is conducted in and around the Port of Hamburg. The festival presents 50+ concerts that are conducted without formally set stages. This facilitates maximum enjoyment of the event. The spectators and jazz buffs can witness the event in the most informal way.

The concerts are organized in the most extraordinary venues like inside the barges, docks, ware houses or old cargo ships. If you are for more formal venues, you can witness some concerts conducted in a few theatres around the Port. The idea is that the festival caters for even the unusual choices of its audiences. The remarkable ambience created by the river side atmosphere itself is the specialty of the festival that draw a large audience from all over that world to the Elbjazz festival.

The Elbjazz festival attracts jazz enthusiasts from all over the world. If you plan to visit Germany during summer, be sure to have a taste of it. You can be lost in the excellent jazz experience in the warm summer nights. The lights of the harbor, the music, the river with many vessels – all merge together to offer you the most memorable experience of your life.

You will be allowed to wander around the harbor and on board various vessels. The concerts are conducted at different venues around the Port Hamburg. The visitors will be provided with free transport to and fro these venues. The transport through the river allows the visitors a chance to enjoy the singularly charming sights along the River Elb.

The concerts are conducted by world class performers. The festival promotes many new comers as well. Some of these newcomers come with their own experiments in the field of music. This often provides the audience with new experiences. The jazz music and the besotted crowd swaying and tapping their feet in time with the music will soon get anyone into the very soul of the event. That is why the Elbjazz festival is so popular among the music fans of the world.

The national and international artists who perform in the festival play a variety of music, so that the taste of everyone is satiated. The festival presents a blend of popular music with classical tones and feet tapping numbers. The audience often leaves the venues with the excitement of new discoveries in various genres of music. Every year the artists come with new styles and blends in their performances. In short, the Elbjazz festival is the music lovers’ bliss.

by Marina Chernyak