2025 EFG London Jazz Festival is round the corner. This year the UK's largest celebration of jazz is going to be held from 14th to 23rd November, 2025.
The London Jazz Festival first took place in 1993 and has since grown to become one of the largest events of jazz in the United Kingdom. The festival has an interesting aspect to it. It became a jazz festival but didn’t have a jazz as the only thing. This all-encompassing festival also included Jazz’s connections and antecedents with Caribbean, European, Indian, African and Latin music. Jazz was in fact a touchstone with several musical ideas moving in between, or colliding with other genres. The jazz festival is unique in the sense that it has constantly evolved and tried to mix the tradition with experiment, the familiar with new, and one culture with another.
London Jazz Festival History
In its initial phases, it was celebrated as the Camden Festival. However, the London Borough of Camden added a Jazz Week in 1970. The Camden Jazz Weeks was held for 15 years at several venues around the borough, which included Shaw Theatre, Roundhouse, London Forum, Logan Hall and Bloomsbury Theatre. The Camden Festival was finally closed by the early nineties. A company named Serious, which produced the Camden Festival, later on started the London Jazz Festival in 1992 with assistance from the London Arts Board.
Highlights of London Jazz Festival
The EFG London Jazz Festival will now enter into its 33rd year in 2025. It has become London’s biggest city-wide festival, with an impressive lineup of over 2,000 artists performing in 70 venues across London.
Where is London Jazz Festival happening in 2025?
The EFG London Jazz Festival in 2025 will take place at the Barbican and various other venues across London, according to the Barbican. The festival is scheduled for Friday, November 14 to Sunday, November 23, 2025.
The London Jazz Festival has taken the music to a huge and forever growing audience with its fascinating mix of world-class artists and emerging stars. The festival has the reputation to bring the freshest and best music to London with several concerts, talks, club events and workshops.
Who all are performing in 2025 EFG London Jazz Festival?
An impressive line up has already been announced for 2025 EFG London Jazz Festival.
The 2025 EFG London Jazz Festival will feature performances by Tanita Tikaram, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Tune-Yards, Makaya McCraven, and Hiromi. Other artists include Bill Frisell, Hermeto Pascoal, Jasmine Myra, Michael Wollny, Marius Neset, Emma-Jean Thackray, and Tortoise.The festival will also feature aja monet, Akiko Yano, and more.
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