Detroit Jazz Festival Sets Return for Labor Day WeekendDETROIT — The Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation has been the force behind the annual production and celebration of jazz music concerts during Labor Day weekend in Detroit.
The end-of-summer event is the world’s largest free jazz festival, and it features world-class talent.
“It’s a fantastic and exciting time for all of us throughout the jazz industry,” said Christopher Collins, President and Artistic Director of the Detroit Jazz Festival Foundation. “Around the world festival and performance venues are coming back online. It’s created a very exciting year in 2022 for artists, crew, and venues, and the patrons that make this happen.”
Collins is referring to the festival having to turn to social media for virtual-only performances in recent years due to COVID-19 restrictions which canceled the in-person gathering event in 2020 and 2021.
The festival gathered an impressive new digital audience with broadcast performances garnering nearly one million views in 2020 and over two million in audience viewership in 2022, respectively.
“The history, the evolution of this city, its culture, and jazz music and Detroit has this unique symbolic relationship with the whole world… I don’t of anything in the world that compares with the quality and magnitude of the Detroit Jazz Festival and the fact that you can come here for free.”
Thanks to the support of corporate sponsors, individual donations, and philanthropic organizations, the Detroit Jazz Festival is able to welcome attendees free of charge.
Each year’s lineup of more than 60 performances as remarkable and diverse as the genre itself, as well as spontaneous late-night jam sessions, offers something for everyone, according to the festival’s website.
For more information on artist line-up, visit detroitjazzfest.org
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