The Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival is back once again for a weekend of international music celebration.
The second Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival will be held over the weekend of January 19th –21st, 2012 (Thursday-Saturday). Three wintry days of hot jazz, excellent music and extraordinary vibe with exciting bands from all over the world:
The Bad Plus – On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Youn Sun Nah Quartet
Omer Klein featuring Rona Kenan
Uri Caine Ensemble - Round about Mozart
Kora Jazz Band featuring Andy Narell
Karl Seglem Quintet
Third World Love
The festival’s artistic director: Dubi Lenz radio persona, presenter, editor, writer and world music expert. Head of the music department of Galei Zahal, IDF radio station for fifteen years and editor and presenter of HaKol Zorem (Everything Flows) a popular world music radio show for three decades. Dubi Lentz is a member of the board of the European world music festivals forum, member of the music department of the Israeli ministry of culture and recipient of the Chevalier (knight) medallion of the Order of Arts and Letters of the government of France.
Every evening on The Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival site a variety of performances open to the public, and the traditional jam sessions continue just like in the summer.
It's gonna be a Hot Winter in Eilat – The Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival.
Performances will take place in Eilat port, inside a hanger adjusted to accommodate 2,400 seats.
www.redseajazzeilat.com