During the days of the Festival the town on the west coast of Norway offers you jazz-and art-exhibitions, a sailing competition and jazz combined with trips to the neighbouring small islands, jazz in the "Seawarehouses", one of the largest street parades there is with tap dancers leading 150 musicians from various parts of the world - in addition to about 180 jazz concerts/events at clubs and concert halls with some 350 musicians taking part.

On our closing day 30-40 000 people meet to enjoy the festival for Street parade and free concerts .

We promise artists who will get your life swinging!

An international festival

There are opportunities throughout the four days of the Festival. In addition to the Norwegian bands and musicians we have jazz personalities and bands from various European countries and of course the USA.

Last year we had bands from Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Irland, Italy, New Zealand, Germany, Holland, France, England and the USA amongst other.

In addition to all the outstanding Norwegian artists visiting us we have had the pleasure of presenting jazz artists such as Svend Asmussen, Arne Domnerus, Bengt Hallberg, Nicholas Payton, Doc Cheatham, Lillian Boutte, Dee Dee Brigdewater, Etta Jones, Houston Person, Nnenna Freelon, Russel Malone, Chuck Loeb, Pat Martino, Mark Whitfield, Lee RItenour, Ray Anderson,Scott Hamilton, Bucky and John Pizzarelli, Karin Krogh, Curtis Stigers, Al Jarreau, Diane Krall, Mose Allison, Dee Dee Bridgwater, Sammy Rimington, Acker Bilk, Kenny Ball, The Manhattan Transfer, Chris Barber,Herbie Mann, Joey DeFrancesco, TOTO, Herbie Hancock, Richard Bona and Etienne Mbappe to mention a few. And of course Norwegian and Scandinavian jazz artist where many of them has all great names on the international jazz scene

We invite everyone

The Sildajazz is already an established event on the Scandinavian Jazz Calender and for 2010 dates are 11th August till 15th August.

We would like to invite everyone who wants to experience a special cultural event to be a part of it.