Swinging Hannover, since 2005 enercity swinging hannover, is a

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in Germany that lasts for 2 days every year.

History

The festival was founded 1967 by Michael Gehrke as the founder of ″Jazz Club Hannover″. The first place where the open-air festival was organized was the ″Opernplatz″. In 1971 the event location of the open-air part of the festival changed to the ″Trammplatz" in front of the New Town Hall in Hannover. The event takes place every morning at

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. The second part of the festival, the ″Jazzbandball″, is located in the ″Hannover Congress Centrum″ every evening before Ascension of Jesus. There are about seven bands a year playing at the festival. The name of the festival changed 2005 after the ″Jazz Club Hannover e. V.″ initiated a partnership with ″Stadtwerke Hannover″ (local public energy company). The Stadtwerke Hannover are also called as enercity and put that term into the name of the festival.

Reception

Many international and national stars of jazz scene were performing at the festival since the beginning in 1967. A bigger prominence was created by introducing the ″Drum-Battles″ where international drummers takes place in a competition, for example

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and

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. The open-air concert was recorded until 2000 by German public radio and television broadcaster

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. The festival had about 35,000 visitors in 2016 and is one of the biggest jazz festivals in Germany.

External links

Website of enercity
with information about Swinging Hannover
Website of Swinging Hannover

References

{{Reflist Jazz festivals in Germany