Festa do Jazz

Festa do Jazz (FdJ) has been a national event for the celebration and multidimensional experience of Portuguese improvised music since 2003. It is a vehicle for new and established artists, creating competitions between national jazz schools, promoting concerts, debates, workshops and awards that highlight the liveliness of national jazzproduction. In this way, the FdJ defines itself as a space for formal meetings between musicians, promoters, students, teachers, families, journalists, academics, political and public agents, as well as an informal networking platform from which new creative projects and collaborations between musicians and programmers in the country emerge, and as a stage for building and disseminating national and European cultural policies. The FdJ works with national jazz schools to professionalise future artists, holding masterclasses and providing career management tools. The National Schools Meeting is an event for creating and developing audiences through pedagogy. We've heard great compositions from the schools' young musicians. We celebrate the rapprochement between national jazz schools and the participation of communities outside Lisbon, from different social backgrounds, enabling us to reach other audiences.

(The programme for the next edition is coming soon)