Karlovy Vary as an internationally known spa town has some typical features we would hardly find in other locations of the region or our country. One of these features is a jazz tradition not even interrupted during the totality times. Why the first jazz festival in former Czechoslovakia in 1961 was held right in Karlovy Vary.
This year, the main programme is concentrated into three evening sessions, held in the Panasonic Cinema and Small Hall of LH Thermal. On the Hot Spring Colonnade, there are four afternoons traditionally reserved for the jazz scene of Karlovy Vary. The dramaturgic conception also brings a change to the environment in which the Festival will take place. This time the audience will have to do without swing, that is why we are leaving the ostentatious atmosphere of Grandhotel Pupp. The modern to avant-garde music for young audience desires different atmosphere.
| Milan Krajíc | artistic director | + 420 603 807 218 | |
| Lukáš Pánek | executive producer | + 420 732 210 663 | lpank@seznam.cz |
| Lev Rybalkin | guest service | + 420 602 232 290 | lev.rybalkin@seznam.cz |
| Jana Fefferová | production | + 420 603 895 354 | dramaturg@mdksokolov.cz |