North Sea Jazz Festival — Dates, Lineup & Tickets
The North Sea Jazz Festival is one of the world’s largest and most renowned jazz festivals. Founded in 1976 in The Hague, it moved in 2006 to the Ahoy Rotterdam arena complex, where it now takes place across three days each July with a dense schedule of concerts running simultaneously on more than a dozen stages.
When & where
- Founded
- 1976
- Home
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Genre
- Jazz / Soul / Blues
- When
- Mid-July
Upcoming editions
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About North Sea Jazz Festival
Its programme reaches far beyond jazz into soul, funk, blues, hip-hop and world music, and over the decades it has hosted an extraordinary roll-call of legends from Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald to Prince. It remains an essential date for music lovers visiting the Netherlands in summer.