Umeå Jazz Festival (Swedish: ''Umeå Jazzfestival'') is an annual jazz festival held in

Umeå Umeå ( , , , locally ; ; ; ; ) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County. Situated on the Ume River, Umeå is the largest Urban areas in Sweden, locality in Norrland and the t ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. The festival comprises some 30 concerts held mainly at Umeå's

folkets hus People's Houses () were originally leisure and cultural centres built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes. The first establishment of this type appeared in Tomsk, Russian Empire in 1882. Soo ...

and NorrlandOpera. Both Swedish and international groups and artists perform, mainly in genres related to modern jazz and improvisation. The festival had its premier in 1968. It is usually staged in October or early November.

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(Swedish and English) Jazz festivals in Sweden Culture in Umeå Recurring events established in 1968 Autumn in Sweden 1968 establishments in Sweden 20th-century establishments in Västerbotten County {{jazz-festival-stub