Always on
This project successfully funded on 5th April 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
This project successfully funded on 5th April 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
We are launching a new jazz festival in Durham City in 2026
We are launching a new Jazz Festival for Durham in 2026.
Our intent is for this to be an annual fixture for the city bringing a mixed programme of performances with something for everyone, whether a jazz aficionado or new to the music. We’ll be bringing some new and exciting performers to venues across the city alongside some familiar and much-loved names.
Launching something new is exciting but it’s also a challenge, especially financially, and now more than ever. We want to create an event with real quality built into its core through its programming and its organisation.
To be sustainable and of value we recognise that it has to be a fantastic experience for our audience, our performers, and the city as a whole, and we are working with some amazing partners in the city to make this a reality. We are exploring all avenues to raise funds and have already found some really supportive individuals and organisations in both the public and private sectors who are getting behind us in an inspiring way. The positivity we've already seen from our community is very encouraging.
Our core team are all volunteers working with big hearts, tenacity and a shared vision of what our festival could be and the community that we hope to build around it. We want the Durham Jazz Festival to belong to the city itself and that our supporters and believers will be part of it and will all have a stake.
So, we are turning to you, our community, to help us bring our festival to the stage. If you can spare a donation to help us on our journey, we would be so grateful. We will be working together to make Durham Jazz Festival a reality and as good as it can be.
There's some rewards available too, which may be of interest, have look below.
Many thanks, we’ll see you at the show
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made