Around the festival
Welcome, cataphobes !
In other words, if you have a phobia of new ideas, a fear of something new, then it can wait for another day. On the other hand, if you fear standing still, then it’s time to take a wonderful trip to the land of sounds!
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
The Petite Pinède in Juan-les-Pins & Bandstand, place Nationale, in Antibes
From July 8th to 18th, July 23rd, 24th, 30th, 31st and August 1st and 2nd
Médiathèque Albert Camus (Library), in Antibes – the July 9th and 18th at 11am
Free concerts as high-quality as they are varied to the delight of Jazz lovers. The set-up of these stages is simple, free … while chairs are available for use in front of the stages, you can also sit on the café terraces or in the Petite Pinède with your beach chair, blanket and picnic, while respectfully enjoying the work of the musicians, of course
A few words about these concerts:
Jammin’Summer session aim to introduce you to emerging European Jazz bands. Carefully selected, these bands, generally made up of young musicians or sidemen, show a real desire to continue to bring jazz to life, that music without barriers that has continued to evolve throughout its history. Jammin’Summer session, like its big brother Jazz à Juan, programmes all jazz, all types of jazz, ranging from classic to electro. So bring your curiosity, come along and listen, see and applaud these young artists who will surprise, enchant, sometimes even get you dancing, and who will certainly be the stars of tomorrow.
The Petite Pinède stands at the corner of rue Leonetti and boulevard Baudoin in Juan-les-pins. The bandstand is located on place Nationale in Antibes. The Médiathèque Albert Camus is boulevard Chancel in Antibes.
Jazz à Juan experience: the Before
A quick pétanque with friends?
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.
Marching Bands
The July 14th, 18th, 23rd, 25th and August 1st, 6th, 8th, 13th, 15th.
Even before the 1st edition of “Jazz à Juan”, the great original tradition of jazz music had already come to the streets of Antibes and Juan-les-Pins (who doesn’t remember the images of Sidney Bechet’s wedding in 1951?!). So, because “Jazz à Juan” has always combined traditional and modern, a major place is left throughout the summer for the region’s Marching Bands.
Exhibition
An exhibition around Jazz is offer, each summer, in Juan-les-Pins.
Le Jazz Club
From July 8th to 17th
During the festival, from 11.00pm to 1.00am, after each Jazz à Juan concert, you’ll find the Jam Sessions led by a group, at the Jazz Club of the Hotel Ambassadeur, Chemin des Sables, Juan-les-Pins.
In 2023, Niels 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 62 of them have left their handprints, which you can discover, embedded along this Jazz “Walk of Fame”, which borders Pinède Gould.