7th Katara European Jazz Festival from tomorrow

7th Katara European Jazz Festival from tomorrow

With the participation of 11 countries, the Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) will organise 7th Katara European Jazz Festival tomorrow. The festival will continue till November 6.

The festival will be held at Katara Esplanade - Gates 20 and 21, starting at 6.30pm. 

This annual festival has become one of the most important events organised by the Katara in cooperation with embassies of the European countries in Qatar.

“The first edition of jazz started in 2015 with the participation of 5 European countries, and currently we have reached the 7th edition, with the attendance of 11 countries. There were participating countries in previous editions,” said Director of the International Affairs Department at Katara, Mariam Al Saad.

Speaking to Qatar Radio, she said that the aim of the festival is to shed light on this type of music through the participation of European countries and by hosting certain countries to express and introduce this culture.

On this edition, Al Saad explained, the attendance and participation began to increase, as coordination was previously through embassies, while now there is interest and care from the European Union, which means that the festival has become a greater prestige, and this helps us to host large and well-known teams.

“In this edition, we hosted famous and well-known European teams, unlike the first edition, where we only hosted amateur teams,” she noted.

The Katara European Jazz Festival has become a major event, attracting some of the world’s best jazz musicians and composers.

It is one of the most prominent headlines planned by Katara in the process of building ties between peoples through culture, art and creativity, as music is one of the most beautiful ways of human expression and a strong bridge that contributes efficiently in civilisational and cultural exchange and encourages cooperation and rapprochement between different peoples and communities in the world.

The festival is described as a message of friendship and peace between peoples, for its role in promoting human communication between different countries and spreading the values of goodness, tolerance and cooperation.