The 6th annual Kavkaz Jazz Festival in Tbilisi

Exciting news for those who love Jazz: the 6th annual Kavkaz Jazz Festival is ready to go! Running from 4 to 7 June, the Kavkaz Jazz Festival, taking place in Georgia’s capital city, is set to host a plethora of young musicians from around the Caucasus region and Europe.

Young and well-known folk jazz musicians from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia Germany, Poland and Turkey will this year take part in the festival and perform in Tbilisi during the four days of the festival.

One of the rising jazz stars from the South Caucasus, Narine Povlatyan, will be performing with Armenian band “Imagine”. Afgan Rasul, a Baku pianist, will also perform at the festival, as well as famous Polish folk singer Joanna Slowinska, considered the modern face of Polish traditional music.

From Georgia there will be Vake Park and Georgian ethno Jazz Band Stumrebi. What’s more, three young Georgian musicians, Papuna Sharikadze, Irakli Choladze and Giorgi Kiknadze will take to the stage as the Papiragio Trio and perform modern Jazz on behalf of Germany, where they are based.

Encouraging exchanges of experience between jazz musicians from the Caucasus and Europe, and giving jazz audiences the opportunity to listen to new jazz talent of the region, is the main mission of the festival, which has been successfully implemented for the past six years.

Nino Melikishvili