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Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival
September 29, 2018
On Saturday September 29, 2018 Columbus Avenue and Carter Playground will be transformed into a jazz lover's dream with the Beantown Jazz Festival. Tens of thousands of music lovers will be here to experience a truly premiere musical event, featuring live Jazz. Lain, Soul, and Blues from artists simultaneously playing on multiple stages scattered around the venue.
Food and crafts vendors will also present as usual. The food vendors take on an international flavor, with past festivals featuring Jamaican cuisine such as shrimp and beef jerky, southern favorites like grilled corn and ribs, sizzling Korean goodies, and decadent mainstay treats such as fried dough.
This year, the festival will celebrate the theme TBA, with performances by some of the genre's most acclaimed up-and-coming alumni artists, including [performers to be announced]. The audience can expect nothing but world-class quality music from this event in a city known for its cultural roots.
Jazz originated from African-American communities in the Southern United States in the early 1900s. Jazz is mostly known for pioneering improvisation, syncopation, polyrythms and sometimes even dissonance, which is the seeming "off-sounding" notes often used in jazz solos. Now, jazz has branched off into many different sub-genres, including the classic big band or swing jazz, to modern fusion or hybrid genres such as funk-jazz, acid jazz, or even smooth jazz. The festival promises a touch of different modern sub-genres, as well as classic, old-school early jazz music.
Berklee College of Music is a world-famous institution, and widely regarded as one of the best contemporary schools of music. Music students from all over the world look to Berklee College as one of the most prestigious opportunities for higher musical learning. Hundreds of its students, faculty members and alumni have received prestigious awards like the Grammy, Oscar, Emmy, and even the Golden Globe awards. Some famous alumni include Victor Bailey, Paula Cole, Rachelle Ferrell, Stu Hamm, Quincy Jones, Diana Krall, Abe Laboriel, John Mayer, Pat Methany, John Myung of Dream Theater, Esperanza Spalding, Susan Tedeschi, and Steve Vai, to name a few.
Related, Boston also hosts several jazz venues and clubs, including the Berklee Performance Center, Sculler's Jazz Club, Regattabar, Wally's Cafe, Berklee's Cafe 939, and David Friend Recital Hall, as well as others.
Main Sponsor Stage Performance Schedule
600 Columbus Avenue
01:00 pm — To Be Announced
02:15 pm — TBA
03:45 pm — TBA
05:00 pm — TBA
Berklee Stage Performance Schedule
435 Massachusetts Avenue
12:00 pm — To Be Announced
01:15 pm — TBA
02:30 pm — TBA
03:45 pm — TBA
05:00 pm —
TBA
BeanTown Stage Performance Schedule
795 Columbus Avenue
12:00 pm — To Be Announced
01:15 pm — TBA
02:30 pm — TBA
03:45 pm — TBA
05:00 pm — TBA
Contact Information & Address:
Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival (Street Festival Location)
Columbus Ave between Mass Ave and Burke Street, Boston, MA 02118
beantownjazz.org
