If you are a big fan of Jazz, it is impossible that you are already not familiar with the hottest Jazz Festival in the world, The Joy of Jazz festival – Johannesburg. It’s a festive of eminence and marvelous pleasure and ecstatic taste of Jazz that can fill you soul with the world’s most romantic of emotions and strongest of passions. It is the ultimate get-together of outrival musicians from round the world.

Every year in August top jazz performers from around the country, bring the four corners of the globe together at Johannesburg’s greatest jazz gig. The city of Johannesburg blooms and moves with the rhythm of Jazz every year in August. As it’s the time of School holidays in UK and most of the Europe, The O R Tambo international Airport Johannesburg becomes one of the world’s busiest places. All European Airlines such as British Airways, Lufthansa, KLM, Swiss Air and Arabic Airlines like Etihad, Qatar, Emirates offer Direct and Indirect flights during the whole season. Cheap Flights to Johannesburg, Discounts, Promotional fares and early reservations for cheap flights to Johannesburg keep the phones ringing. You can get more details on Cheap tickets to South Africa here.

Joy of Jazz Festival is indeed the biggest annual jazz festival in Johannesburg. It is an ideal family outing, featuring a range of musical styles but with a strong emphasis on jazz. Over 200 local and international artists perform at different venues across the city, particularly in Newtown. The annual jazz festival in 2010 will be the 10 year of Jazz Festival Johannesburg and is expected to run from Thursday to Saturday, 27 to 29 August, in Newtown, Joburg’s cultural precinct, where there is much more to expect apart from this thrilling festive of music.

International and local jazz musicians expected to perform include Ben Williams, Vusi Mahlasela, Jimmy Dludlu, Brian Thusi, Pops Mohamed, Jonas Gwangwa and Sweden’s Grammy-award winner, Andreas Vollenweider. American singer Phil Perry; Main Ingredient’s singers, Cuba Gooding Senior, Larry Moore and George Stanley Senior; trumpeter, Ingrid Jensen; Spain’s Sumrra; Sterling EQ; Kesivan Naidoo; Nigerian All Stars; Kúnlé Ayo and Room 11 are also on the bill. So you can tell from the ingredients what the recipe will taste like…ummmmm

"Music lovers can expect to see an explosion of talent from the African continent," reads a press statement from Total Exposure, the event’s publicists.

Keyboardist Lao Tizer, who will collaborate with Emmy Award-winning guitarist, composer, producer and arranger, Chieli Minucci, and international violinist, Karen Briggs, will be performing at the Jazz night. They will be complemented by Marion Meadows, the composer, a tenor and soprano saxophonist, and jazz guitarist and singer, Norman Brown.

The biggest annual jazz festival in Johannesburg, the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival presents local and international stars at venues all over town, including Bassline and The Laboratory. Workshops and performances support the development of young musicians and in this world of falling economies and heart breaking disasters, these are the events that are keeping the human spirit alive !

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