The Red Sea Jazz Festival is a longstanding summer tradition in Israel’s window onto the Red Sea, Eilat. In 2011, for the first time, a Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival was held over a weekend in January due the the immense popularity and status of the summer festival as one of Israel’s premier cultural events. In January 2012, the festival will take place on the weekend of January 19-21 and it is set to include some amazing jazz from across the world with a great atmosphere, in a beautiful setting inside a hanger at the Eilat port.

Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival

The Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival, 2012 will feature the following acts:

• The Bad Plus – On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
• Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
• Youn Sun Nah Quartet
• Omer Klein featuring Rona Kenan
• Uri Caine Ensemble – Round about Mozart
• Kora Jazz Band featuring Andy Narell
• Karl Seglem Quintet
• Third World Love featuring Avi Lebovich

For further information about the Red Sea Winter Jazz Festival, including purchasing tickets, please visit their website.