Special focus on Denmark at jazzahead!
Danish art and culture will be in the spotlight during the upcoming international cultural event jazzahead! in Bremen, Germany. With more than 20 concerts as well as exhibitions, theater, readings, film screenings and lots more, jazzahead! will offer a deep insight into the music and art scene of this year’s partner country, Denmark.
Jazzahead! will be taking place from April 24-27, but it also includes an appertaining cultural festival spanning from March until May. The special Danish program “Hej Danmark” was launched on March 13th 2014 with a gala concert at Kulturkirche St. Stephani with The Danish String Quartet. With “The Artificial Nature Project” on May 24th, 2014, at BLG- Forum, the program comes to a spectacular conclusion. In this project, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen contemplates human kind’s dealing with nature, as well as decay and transformations.
Big bands and Hamlet
Between these two events that form the framework of the festival, the program is full of highlights, such as the gala concert with Gitte Hænning and the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra at concert hall Die Glocke on April 25th, 2014, or the concert of the WDR Big Band with the Danish star soloists Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet) and Carsten Dahl (piano) on April 27th at BLG- Forum. The Shakespeare Company presents a prince and entertains with as many as three evenings circling around “Hamlet”.
The art of sound and architecture
An homage to the Danish pioneers of electronic music can be experienced at Schwankhalle from March 28th to April 5th in the “Snyk Show”, in which the sound artists Hans Sydow, Jacob Kirkegaard and SØS Gunver Ryberg present installations, films and, most importantly, experimental music.
The exhibition “Create with Aarhus” from March 12th to April 27th at Wilhelm Wagenfeld Haus deals with questions of post-industrial urban development. Subsequently, a solo exhibition at the Artdocks gallery pays tribute to the Danish photographer and jazzahead! ŠKODA Award winner Jan Persson by showing his impressive images of jazz history from April 27th to June 7th. Two readings at bookshop Storm on May 6th and 7th provide insight into Danish literature. Kim Leine, one of the most important Danish authors will present his new novel “Ewigkeitsfjord”.
Exemplary development of jazz
This year, around 40 cooperation partners take part in the organization of the arts and culture festival. “ jazzahead! has succeeded at something very unique: Developing a cultural festival out of a trade fair, out of jazz. While jazz is generally regarded as a niche product, in Bremen it is the driving force behind a cultural festival that incorporates other genres” says the project manager Sybille Kornitschky.
About jazzahead!
Jazzahead! Is considered to be the most important jazz music trade fair worldwide. With a full professional program at the trade fair and a showcase festival with 44 concerts, the event brings together the international jazz scene and an ever-growing public audience from April 24th – 27th, 2014, in Bremen.This year the focus is on Denmark, in cooperation with JazzDanmark, and well over a 100 jazz musicians will perform in Bremen during the jazzahead!trade fair.
The arts and culture festival of jazzahead! consists of a total of three elements: the showcase festival during the jazz trade fair (April 24th to 26th, 2014), the jazzahead! ŠKODA clubnight on Saturday, April 26th, 2014, in 27 venues in Bremen, and the partner country program taking place over several weeks in many cultural institutions of Bremen. More than 40 venues and institutions are part of the festival, presenting over 120 events. All under the umbrella of jazzahead!
The Danish Festival at jazzahead! is supported by the Danish Arts Foundation, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Ministry of Culture.
Further info available at www.jazzahead.de
Read more about participating Danish artists at www.jazzahead.de/en/festival/danish-night/ and www.jazzdanmark.dk
Contact:
JazzDanmark, Lars Winther, lw@jazzdanmark.dk, +45 3345 4305
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