Genre Jazz festival Years active 2004-present | Dates October 3 ~ 5 Attendance over 200,000 | |
Location(s) Jarasum, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea | ||
The Jarasum International Jazz Festival began in 2004 with 30 teams of jazz artists from 12 countries. Well established as a significant international festival, every year, over 100,000 people visit this particularly popular festival and 95% of the attendees are actually previous visitors. This 2014, the festival runs from October 3 (Friday) to October 5 (Sunday)at Jarasum (which means "terrapin island" in Korean) located in the center of the Korean peninsula.
Main line up for 2014 included Maceo Parker, Paquito D’Rivera and Trio Corrente, The Yellowjackets, Allan Holdsworth, Terje Rypdal & Ketil Bjørnstad, Joachim Kühn, Dominic Miller, Mathias Eick, Tord Gustavsen, Jan Lundgren, Gregoire Maret and Jazz Connection.
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