Black Sea Jazz Festival

Black Sea Jazz Festival
Genre	Jazz, blues, soul, R&B
Dates	July
Location(s)	Batumi, Georgia
Years active	2007–present
Website
Black Sea Jazz Festival

The Black Sea Jazz Festival (Georgian: შავი ზღვის ჯაზ-ფესტივალი) is an international jazz festival held annually, traditionally in July, in Batumi on Georgia's Black Sea coast, which, along with Tbilisi Jazz Festival, is one of the country's main jazz events.

The festival was founded in 2007. The subsequent editions broadened the scope of the festival to include R&B, soul, disco, funk, and hip-hop and hosted both Georgian and international performers as diverse as George Clinton, Snoop Dogg, Lisa Stansfield, and The Prodigy.^[1][2][3] The 10th edition, to be held from 15 to 24 July 2016, is expected to be the largest one in the history of the Black Sea Jazz Festival.^[4]

References

1. "Snoop Dogg, Lisa Stansfield to perform at Black Sea Jazz Festival". Agenda.ge. 31 March 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
2. "Quincy Jones, Lauryn Hill, Chris Brown among headliners for 2016 Black Sea Jazz Festival". Agenda.ge. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
3. "Sun, sea and sounds at the Black Sea Jazz Festival". Euronews. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
4. Karsaulidze, Eka (28 April 2016). "10th Black Sea Jazz Festival to Host Unprecedented Number of Participants". Georgia Today. Retrieved 29 April 2016.