Jazz Festival will be held in Lillehammer

Lillehammer is a famous ski resort in Norway that is famous not only for its ski tracks. Lillehammer is also an interesting from a cultural point of view. Another proof for it is Jazz Festival DølaJazz. Annual DølaJazz festival will be held in Lillehammer in 2009 from 15 to 18 of October. DølaJazz is held in Lillehammer not fro the first time and has already become one of the most vivid events of Winter Olympics’ 1994 capital. DølaJazz is a kind of tribute that dense hot jazz at the festival gives the clear and frosty winter in Norway.

The main purpose of the DølaJazz festival in Lillehammer is to give the opportunity to the young performers of jazz to present themselves, to get them acquainted with the modern leading trends and to establish links between the national teams of Norway and the jazz musicians of international level. Organizers of DølaJazz actively welcome the participation of young musicians as assistants in the organization of the festival as well as performers. Special program of the festival in Lillehammer holds the name Jazzincubator, the one more time underlines the interest of DølaJazz in promoting talented young jazz musicians.

Nevertheless, the jazz festival in Lillehammer is not intended to limit the program to a mere "promising talents". On the stage of DølaJazz can be seen also truly venerable performers whose names are known to jazz lovers all around the world.

The festival will take place on several stages. The central stage of the festival will become Rica Kongressalen in the center of Lillehammer. The cost of the ticket to DølaJazz is 50-200 Norwegian kroner.

Lillehammer today is a city which is known primarily as a ski resort and one of the most popular winter recreation areas in Norway. The 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics brought international fame to this city as a sports center. So the upcoming DølaJazz festival can be considered also as an event that attracts more attention to the city of tourists and anticipates the winter season in Lillehammer.