Festival opening: Jazz parade and awarding of the DNB award

 

The Jazz Parade marks the start of the Kongsberg Jazz Festival. It starts outside Tinius Olsen vgs and goes to Kirketorget. The festival opens here Minister of Culture Linda Hofstad Helleland. Furthermore, the festival's major musician prize, the DNB prize, is awarded to a prominent musician in the Norwegian jazz milieu. The prize is NOK 300 and has the stated goal of being Norway's largest and most important prize in the jazz field.

 

The children from the jazz parade are invited to a sausage fest at Kirketorget.