The 6th edition of the Jazz in the Park Competition has recently ended and it was a success! It was probably the best edition so far: the highest prizes, the most bands that applied, the largest audience, and on top of all that, we returned to the Central Park, the location that made us famous.…
Dear friends and followers,
Please meet our jury for this year's International Jazz in the Park Competition!
Horea Marc is the stage manager of Jazz in the Park, ever since the beginning of the festival. His experience in both organizing events and music has helped shape our festival as it is. He graduated from the „Gheorghe Dima”…
We met Mădălina last year. Her then-manager contacted us, asking if we wanted to include her in the festival, and we said yes because we love having Romanian artists at the festival, especially those who seem "fresh" to us. However, a couple of months before the festival, Mădălina performed with her orchestra in Cluj, and…
Jazz in the Park has always had committed partners who not only financially support our initiatives but also get involved with relevant and beautiful content designed to make your experience of attending our events more enjoyable.
Between June 30 and July 2, we’ll meet again in Central Park for our International Competition. In addition to our…
Sugar David is a close friend of ours. He runs the local Vinyl Shop (check it out here) and we do all sorts of stuff together around music. Last year, we discovered Shay Hazan in his shop. After playing a few songs, we actually wrote to him and booked him for the festival. We liked…
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Hi! Alin here, the founder of Jazz in the Park. If you've been following us, you probably recognize me. I think I've played every possible role in this festival, and now I'm serving as a judge for the band preselection. I thought I'd tell you a little bit about how the process went…
New year, new objectives. Objectives we'd like to share with you, so that we can all start marking our calendars.
As we got to reflect on our past and how we've grown as a festival, we've come to realize that while change is good, it's even better to take the awesome things we've done in the…
The word "#listen" has a very strong significance for us. It's more of a manifesto than a motto or a hashtag.
On one hand, "listen" directly refers to music. It's an invitation to everyone to give our music a chance, but also to all artists who produce music in general. On the other hand, it's…
When I started Jazz in the Park, I didn't know much about the music industry. I had a general idea of how things worked, but my main motivation came from my vision of what Jazz in the Park could be. However, the years of experience have allowed me and my colleagues to develop a good…
Working with people is quite complicated; and when it comes to larger groups of people there is an entirely different ball game. We start the article with this statement because it's important to understand that organizing an event is not just fun and games. There are a lot of moving parts and pieces that need…
A few days ago, I came across a story from the folks at DOR that got me thinking. The text went something like this: "A year ago, at this time, yeast had already disappeared from stores and Romania reported 168 cases of coronavirus. Yes, in that order." Little did we know what was about to…
In 2013, with the first edition of Jazz in the Park, we managed to remove the "do not step on the grass" signs from the Central Park and to truly give it back to the community. Now, in 2022, we choose to give to people another park. This time, we're taking them on a walk…