National Youth Jazz Festival Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, and Zimbabwe. South African jazz students audition for places in the Standard Bank National Schools Big Band and the National Youth Jazz Band (NYJB). The NYJB performs regularly at festivals around South Africa—Grahamstown, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban—and has performed in New York City, Sweden and the North Sea Jazz Festival, the Netherlands. National Youth Jazz Festival The National Youth Jazz Festival runs as party of the National Arts Festival also known as the Grahamstown Festival which has been running in Grahamstown since 1974, and is the world’s second-largest single cultural festival, attracting performers
Jarasum International Jazz Festival Jarasum International Jazz Festival The Jarasum International Jazz Festival () is an annual Jazz Festival in South Korea, the festival began in 2004 with 30 teams of jazz artists from 12 countries. Well established as a significant international festival, every year, over 100,000 people visit this particularly popular festival and 95% of the attendees are actually previous visitors. This 2014, the festival runs from October 3 (Friday) to October 5 (Sunday)at "Jarasum" (which means "terrapin island" in Korean) located in the center of the Korean peninsula. Main line up for 2014 included Maceo Parker, Paquito D’Rivera and Trio Corrente, The