For the fourth year, the island of the Knights will be flooded with jazz melodies, at the Rhodes & South Aegean International Jazz Festival, a great celebration that will take place this year at the impressive Palace of the Knights and the Ancient Odeon of Rhodes. The festival’s artistic director is Dimitrios Vassilakis, an internationally renowned saxophonist, composer, and academic researcher.This year’s festival will take place from 27 to 30 August (Website. Youtube channel).
The festival is co-organized by the Rhodes Municipality Organisation of Culture & Sports – DOPAR, the Prefecture of the South Aegean, Jazz Democracy NPO, and under the auspices and support of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Saturday August 27th @ Cine Rodon
Candid Stories Panel; Women in jazz / Jack Kerouac 100th birthday / Jazz in the movies
Sunday August 28th @ Grand Palace of the Knights of Rhodes
Marios Charalambous quartet | Cyprus
Shekinah Rotz quartet featuring Inbar Fridman and Olivier Gatto | Puerto Rico, France, Israel, Greece, Rhodes
Monday August 29th @ Grand Palace of the Knights of Rhodes
Doc In Absolute Trio | Luxemburg
Tanini Trio, sisterhood with Bodrum Jazz Festival | Turkey
Jam session. A collaboration of Turkish, Greek and Cypriot musicians on stage.
Tuesday August 30th @ Odeion of Rhodes Ancient Acropolis, Rhodes
Maria Manousaki group | Greece, Crete
Craig Bailey with Dimitrios Vassilakis Arthenian Quartet Ballads & Blues with special guests Nefeli Fasouli, Nestor Vassilakis and Lefteris Chatziantonis | USA, Athens University, Cincinnati University, Greece, Rhodes
Free entrance events @ 9pm, doors @ 8:30pm
You will find the program of the festival and all its parallel activities on its official website.
