Festival Updates
Latest news from the festival office
Porvoo jazz club goes bosgård
Porvoo Jazz Club goes Bosgård presents bassist Jori Huhtala, who is releasing his fourth solo album with his new Basis quartet and will arrive in Porvoo in July for the long-awaited album release gig at the atmospheric Bosgord Charolain hayloft. During his career...
Avanti x Porvoo Jazz Festival: gong odyssey
Porvoo Jazz Festivali Ry's collaboration with the chamber orchestra Avanti's Suvisoitto festival continues! This time, Porvoo Jazz Club will visit the Suvisoitto festival in the form of a magical concert by Mika Kallio Gong Odyssey, which conjures up a unique...
Jaska Lukkarinen & UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra–Rainbow Blue
Porvoo Jazz Festival collaborates with UMO for the first time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of UMON. Drummer Jaska Lukkarinen, former Artistic Director of the Porvoo Jazz Festival and a first-time visitor to UMO in 2003, will take the spotlight at this concert....
Felix Zenger & The Real Instruments feat. Tommy Lindgren
Felix Zenger & The Real Instruments brings rhythmic powder and technical prowess to the Porvoo Jazz Festival. The new line-up was born out of Zenger’s desire to create music where you really get to mouth off - literally and musically. The question is, is beatbox...
Childrens Consert: MIRKKA & LUIS
Porvoo Jazz Festival offers a children's concert already for the fourth time! This year's festival will feature the fresh and colourful five-piece Mirkka & Luis. Mirkka & Luis is a children's music group with a passion for singing, laughing and moving both...
AGNAS BROS. (SE)
Award-winning and internationally acclaimed jazz quartet arrives to Porvoo Jazz Festival! The four brothers Konrad, Kasper, Mauritz and Max Agnas started the group Agnas Bros. many years ago in the basement of their childhood home. Over the years, they have had time...
DOME presents: Porvoo Jazz Club – Equally Stupid
Icelandic-Finnish-American trio Equally Stupid (2008-) combines jazz and rock aesthetics, punk attitude, complex rhythms, and collective improvisation into a cohesive whole. Rögnvaldsson and Lyytinen's 20 years of honed collaborative playing create a recognisable...
Jonathan Bäckström Quartet
The Porvoo Jazz Club will once again bring high quality Nordic jazz to the stage. Jonathan Bäckström Quartet is a Helsinki-based acoustic and improvising quartet with members from Finland and Sweden. The quartet is led by bassist/composer Jonathan Bäckström, whose aim...
PORVOO JAZZ CLUB: Antila, Saastamoinen, Mäkynen w/ Ebba Åsman (SE)
At Porvoo Jazz Club, vibraphone talent Mikko Antila, young master of the basis Mikael Saastamoinen and the king of the jug Teppo Mäkynen will combine their skills with Swedish singer-songwriter and trombonist Ebba Åsman. Åsman is a unique talent and a rising star in...
Porvoo Jazz Club Goes PORVOON VALOT: Mimie moore jazz edition
Porvoo Jazz Club is participating in the Porvoo Lights event for the second time. This time the amazing lights at Vanha 123 will be designed and implemented by Porvoo-based Hakalight & Taavi Paananen! The stage will be taken by the spectacular seven-piece Mimie...