Around the festival
Welcome to those eager for discovery!
Throughout the summer, the city of Antibes Juan-les-Pins offers a whole range of cultural events, concerts, shows and art, as part of Summer Pop Art. Whether during the Jazz Festival or after it, the Tourist Office invites you to have fun … fun for the eyes by visiting the exhibition, fun for the ears by following the Marching Bands, rounding off your evening at the Jazz Club, or coming to discover the Jammin’Summer session bands.
Jammin’Summer session
La Petite Pinède, in Juan-les-Pins, from July 10th to 21st from 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm (except July 14th – 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm),
The Albert Camus Médiathèque, in Antibes – July 15th and 18th at 11:00
An invitation to discover young jazz talents!
Every evening, from 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm (except July 14th, from 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm), the Jammin’Summer session invites you to discover an emerging Jazz project or a confirmed project still unknown to the general audience.
These bands come from France (and even our distant department of La Reunion) but also from Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland or Canada…
The Médiathèque Albert Camus (media library) will welcome us, again this year, for 2 concerts «Les Matinales du Festival», on July 15th and 18th from 11am to noon. These concerts are followed by a time of exchange with the musicians (until 12:30pm).
These young international artists represent all currents of the current jazz scene. Most of them were discovered at Jammin’Juan, the market for jazz professionals (next edition from 29th to 31st October 2025).
Access to the Petite Pinède is free. Although the sound is better when facing the stage, it can be nice to sit in the shade of pine trees or on a terrace that line the stage.
Make no mistake, on the stage of the Petite “small” Pinède you will listen to “big” musicians!
Petite Pinède: angle boulevard Baudoin/ rue Jacques Leonetti
Jazz à Juan experience: the Before
A quick pétanque with friends? A DJ aperitif?
The concerts of Jazz à Juan begin, every evening at 20:30 (except exceptional cases).
If you want to arrive early, you can take advantage of the offers of the foodtrucks located in the shade of the pines, behind the stands to the sounds of an atmospheric DJ and indulge with friends in a game of petanque in 13 points.
3 DJs will come to animate “the before” of Jazz à Juan
Marching Bands
The Marching-bands will walk through the streets of Antibes and Juan-les-Pins on 22nd, 24th, 29th, 31st July and 05th, 07th, 12th and 14th August 2025
The festive and musical atmosphere invades the streets of Antibes and Juan les Pins through the Summer Marching Band! 8 nightly performances, from 20:30 to 21:30, of Jazz de la Nouvelle Orléans but also a more current and funky repertoire for the pleasure of all generations.
Routes:
ANTIBES:
Departure OFFICE DU TOURISME MARENDA LACAN, 2 rue Fontvieille – rue Lacan (towards Jardin d’Eden) – boulevard d’Aguillon (up to the Porte Marine) – rue Thuret – place Nationale – rue de la République – place des Martyrs – traverse rue Lacan – Fontvieille
JUAN LES PINS:
Departure PALAIS DES CONGRES, 60 chemin des sables – avenue Georges Gallice – boulevard Edouard Baudoin (Carrefour PamPam/Crystal) – promenade du Soleil*– La Baigneuse* – promenade du Soleil* – boulevard Edouard Baudoin- rue Jacques Leonetti (petite pinède) – avenue Georges Gallice
*subject to progress of work
Exhibitions
From July 1st to September 30th.
Hervé Rubeaud, painter, exhibiting at the AC Ambassadeur Hotel located at 50-52 Chemin des Sables in Juan-les-Pins
After studying applied art in Paris near the Louvre museum and working as a graphic designer in the field of communication, Hervé Rubeaud returned to painting 10 years ago. Two years later, he had the opportunity to exhibit at the «New Art 48 Gallery» in Montreux, Switzerland, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the festival. His work focuses mainly on figurative portrait, using the technique of oil or acrylic painting. His artistic approach aims to capture the expression that transcends the musician when he delivers himself with depth by singing or playing an instrument. Even just by posing, one can perceive an emotion that tells their whole story. “I can’t help thinking of the roots of jazz and blues, which are the living memory of these artists.”
The work of Hervé Rubeaud, a painter previously featured at the 63rd Jazz à Juan Festival, explores the intense and varied emotions that jazz musicians convey through their expressions and music. Each painting seeks to capture the soul of jazz, that unique blend of passion, improvisation, and freedom. He is exhibiting his new works.
Christian Rahal, photographer, at the Juan-les-Pins Tourist Office, located in the Palais des Congrès – 60 Chemin des Sables
(more information soon)
Le Jazz Club
From July 10th to 19th
During the festival, from 11.00pm to 1.00am, after each Jazz à Juan concert, you’ll find the Jam Sessions led by a band, at the Jazz Club of the Hotel AC Ambassadeur, Chemin des Sables, Juan-les-Pins.
In 2025, Nils Indjein and his 2 musicians will come to animate the Jazz Club.
The concert is free but it is strongly recommended to reserve your table.
The Handprints of Giants
Every summer, international jazz stars perform at Jazz à Juan, and 76 of them have left their handprints, which you can discover, embedded along this Jazz “Walk of Fame”, which borders Pinède Gould.
