18th Athens Technopolis Jazz festival
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 5:52 pm
Are you ready to jazz?
The first day of the festival in Technopolis City of Athens, Monday 4th June, is dedicated to the Greek jazz scene with appearances from the “Greek Jazz Virtuosos”: Athens Big Band feat. Dimitris Tsakas & Vassilis Xenopoulos followed by the festival’s new suggestion “Mihalis Kalkanis Live” and finally our country’s representation “John Balikos Trio”.
On Tuesday 5th June we will enjoy the “Ioannou/Vafeas Quartet” (Cyprus), “Greg Lamy Quartet” (Luxembourg) and “Accordi e Disaccordi” (Italy) while on Wednesday 6th June “Drifter” (Belgium), “All Too Human” (Denmark) and “Sebastian Studnitzky “MEMENTO” orchestral experience” (Germany) will come on stage.
On Thursday 7th June we will travel to Spain, Czech Republic and the Netherlands through the performances of “Enriquito Trio”, “Milan Svoboda Quartet” και “Under the Surface” respectively. On Friday 8th June the last performance of the night will be the highly anticipated “Theo Croker” from the USA whereas we will have already enjoyed “Woody Black 4” (Austria) and “Moncef Genoud” (Switzerland).
On Saturday 9th June we have the “Espen Berg Trio” (Norway), the “Brightbird Trio” (Portugal) and the forever charming “Peedu Kass Momentum” (Estonia). The 18th Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival ends on Sunday 10th June with the best way possible, the “Mihály Borbély Quartet” (Hungary), “Isabella Lundgren and Carl Bagge Trio” (Sweden) και “Binker & Moses” (UK). It could not have been better!
At the same time, at Onassis Cultural Centre on the NEW GENERATION 5 Greek Jazz Panorama the following performances will take place:
Thursday 7th June: Takis Paterelis (saxophone), Giorgos Kontrafouris (piano), Panagiotis Kostopoulos (drums), Kimonas Karoutzos (contrabass), Michalis Tsiftsis (guitar).
Friday 8th June: Arion Gyftakis (contrabass), Tzortzis Tsiropoulos (tenor saxophone), Gabriele Milozzi (alto and soprano saxophone), Anastasis Gouliaris (drums).
Saturday 9th June: David Lynch (saxophones), Stavros Lantsias (piano), Vassilis Podaras (drums), Ntinos Manos (contrabass).
During the 7 days of the 18th Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival we will have the opportunity to see the jazz version of Technopolis as its venues will host many side events and exhibitions as well as many and exciting surprises!
https://www.technopolisjazzfestival.com/index.php/en/