Kongsberg Jazz Festival has a fantastic program history. Here you will find an overview of who has visited us since 1964. The list includes Stevie Wonder, BB King, Diana Krall, Herbie Hancock, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jamie Cullum, Pat Metheny, Sonny Rollins, Chick Corea, Bobby McFerrin, Weather Report, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, John Scofield, Dianne Reeves, Charles Mingus, Bo Diddley, Joshua Redman, Buddy Guy, Ornette Coleman, Nigel Kennedy, Madrugada, Kaizers Orchestra, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Radka Toneff, Röyksopp, Sonic Youth , Cassandra Wilson, Jan Garbarek, Art Blakey & the […]
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Apart from our regular festival programme, we also have free concerts in the Jazzbox. Here, students, semi-professionals and amateurs get the opportunity to play for a wide audience.
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The saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader Eirik Hegdal has received many awards for his work, and in 2018 he received the best of all: the Kongsberg Jazz Festival's musician prize. This means that he is back at this year's festival with three projects, and these projects are so different that together they convey the impression of a very special and [...]
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The lyrics are direct and the music intimate, fully acoustic with an immodest pop touch.
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The Kongsberg Jazz Festival is approaching, the highlight of the year for folk life and jazz experiences in Kongsberg.
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Last year's recipient of the festival's major musician prize will be seen in a triple format during this year's Kongsberg Jazz Festival on three different days with three different constellations
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Last year's recipient of the festival's major musician prize will be seen in a triple format during this year's Kongsberg Jazz Festival on three different days with three different constellations
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Thanks to a broad program with big attractions and full steam ahead with the weather, this year's edition of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival was the best attended in the festival's 54-year history.
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Saxophonist and composer Eirik Hegdal receives the Kongsberg Jazz Festival's big musician prize of NOK 200.000. The award will go to a musician who has made a strong mark on the Norwegian jazz scene.
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The sound of Prøysen with i.a. Frida Ånnevik and Helge Lien, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Kristoffer Lo and The Thing are just a few of the many musical highlights during the winter and spring season at Kongsberg's own jazz club Jazz Evidence.
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Now's The Time with talks and musician meetings in the Jazzbox
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13:00 // Hilde Marie Holsen & Joshua Abrams 14:00 // Adrien Brandeis 16:00 // Hot Club de Norvége 17:00 // Commissioned work: Erlend Apneseth 17:30 // Commissioned work with Eirik Hegdal: 'EnEnEn' with Johan Lindstrøm 17:30 // Triple concert: Ms. Lauryn Hill, Jamie Cullum & Ane Brun 19:00 // Joshua Abrams Natural Information Society with Helge Sten & […]
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