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This year edition of Siena Jazz Festival and Workshop will be held from July 24th through August 7th. The focus is on the successive waves of graduate students who have been coming to this beautiful city in the green hills of Tuscany every summer.

All the concerts are to free admittance, except for the four evenings of the Enoteca Jazz Club (Entry: 8 Euro).

One thing they are here to learn is how to play for people, so there are several concerts every day. The "Opening Concert" for the summer courses, traditionally held in Siena's Piazza del Campo on July 24th.

The most characteristic and original events tied to the Workshops, that also gathers great consent among the sienese, are the "Jam Sessions in Contrada". These sessions are programmed every evening from July 30th to August 4th, included, in the squares or gardens of the Societies belonging to the sienese contradas.

After hours of lessons, the students can experience performing in a series of musical exhibitions structured as public exercises. The jam sessions are preceded by another event called "Mini-Doc". These are brief improvised performances by the Teachers of the Workshops, in formations created exclusively for this occasion, allowing all of the students to hear the teachers.

The Workshop will close with the "Final Concert" that concludes this edition of summer courses. The concert will be held in the suggestive Piazza Iacopo della Quercia, next to Siena's Cathedral.

Siena jazz

Siena jazz is a non-profit cultural association, founded on September 9th 1977 and re-established as a public cum private association on November 20th 1991, with three founding entities: the Town Council of Siena, Siena's Regional Administration and Siena's Jazz Association.

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