{"id":148049,"date":"2025-06-25T11:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=148049"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:24:17","slug":"popular-jazz-festival-in-an-atmospheric-spa-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/popular-jazz-festival-in-an-atmospheric-spa-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Jazz Festival in an Atmospheric Spa Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The Narva-J\u00f5esuu 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The 2025 Grammy nominee <b>Christie Dashiell <\/b>(USA) and her quartet, saxophonist <b>Camilla George<\/b> (England), Finnish jazz star <b>Aili Ikonen<\/b>, and legendary musicians <b>Villu Veski <\/b>and <b>Tiit Kalluste<\/b> Tango Nuevo Sextet from Estonia will perform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The small spa town in eastern Estonia offers an atmospheric setting for the music festival. \u201cNarva-J\u00f5esuu 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,\u201d describes the jazz festival\u2019s artistic director <b>Oleg Pissarenko<\/b>, who is also a long-time musician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cNarva-J\u00f5esuu 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,\u201d Pissarenko adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In the first year of the festival, there were 500\u2013700 visitors, which is a considerable number in one day for a small spa town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Read more about the festival and buy tickets <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/narva-joesuujazz.ee\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148029\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-433x650.jpg 433w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-73x110.jpg 73w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-18x27.jpg 18w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-120x180.jpg 120w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-210x315.jpg 210w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-450x675.jpg 450w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey-650x975.jpg 650w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Christie-Dashiell_f_-Colville-Heskey.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-85x57.jpg 85w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-210x140.jpg 210w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Aili-Ikonen_kuva-Tero-Ahonen.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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