Tag: Umeå Jazz Festival

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As sure as the cold begins to bite and darkness takes big gulps out of the afternoon, the Umeå Jazz Festival arrives full of warmth to portend a season of bonhomie and deliver in the meantime plenty of great music. Now in its 59th edition, the festival - established by Lars Lystedt in 1968 and boasting over the years...

The 58th iteration of the Umeå Jazz Festival brought some familiar faces to the north of Sweden, offering its usual blend of marquee names and local favourites alongside other enticing if lesser-known acts. The festival also continues to expand its approach to the rest of the city, with a week-long calendar of events heralded by Jazzcafé Swingfabriken astride Umeå University's...

Umeå, a small city on the northeast coast of Sweden which lies around 600 kilometres from Stockholm and wears a subarctic climate, with long and dark winters but warm summers imbued with the glow of a midnight sun, culturally punches several divisions above its weight class. Known for its birch trees and clean air, this fact owes partly to the...