National Youth Jazz Festival
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33°18′36″S 26°31′36″E / 33.31000°S 26.52667°E The National Youth Jazz Festival runs as part of the National Arts Festival also known as the Grahamstown Festival which has been running in Grahamstown since 1974, and is the world's second-largest single cultural festival,[citation needed] attracting performers in all art forms from around South Africa and all over the world.
It attracts a heterogeneous audience of over 140,000 [citation needed] from around the country, who cram into what is normally a small settler town best known for its academic and legal institutions. Performance venues are thus created in any available venue such as schools, churches, and community halls. The National Youth Jazz Festival takes place on the campus of the Diocesan School for Girls, Grahamstown.
The National Youth Jazz Festival has been in existence since 1991; the Jazz Festival has been running since 1989, and the two festivals now run as a single entity, organized by the same administrative team.
The Standard Bank Jazz Festival runs for the full 10 days of the National Arts Festival in a variety of jazz styles. The festival incorporates the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival for the first six days to bring together more than three hundred young jazz musicians, thirty-five jazz educators, and eighty jazz performers from around the world.