Popular Jazz Festival in an Atmospheric Spa Town

Text Susanna Poikela
Photos Camilla George, Colville Heskey, Tero Ahonen

The Narva-Jõesuu Jazz music festival, which is being held for the third time this summer and is steadily growing in popularity, will take place on Saturday, 26 July.

The 2025 Grammy nominee Christie Dashiell (USA) and her quartet, saxophonist Camilla George (England), Finnish jazz star Aili Ikonen, and legendary musicians Villu Veski and Tiit Kalluste Tango Nuevo Sextet from Estonia will perform.

The small spa town in eastern Estonia offers an atmospheric setting for the music festival. “Narva-Jõesuu Park is like something out of an old black-and-white movie, with elegant women strolling around in their beautiful hats, a ship sailing on the river, and atmospheric music wafting from its deck,” describes the jazz festival’s artistic director Oleg Pissarenko, who is also a long-time musician.

“Narva-Jõesuu Jazz is undoubtedly the most exotic of all the projects I have organised so far. The idea for it came from a desire to give something back to a place that is very dear to me. I spent my childhood summers in the city,” Pissarenko adds.

In the first year of the festival, there were 500–700 visitors, which is a considerable number in one day for a small spa town.

Read more about the festival and buy tickets here!

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