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The festival was originally targeted at jazz and blues enthusiasts, attracted audiences of 1,500 to 2,000, and was held in November each year. Various factors including heavy rains which occur at that time of the year encouraged the organizers to move the dates of the festival to the end of January, another traditionally slow tourism period.
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Martin has performed numerous stage shows across Jamaica and was notably invited to perform at One Night with Michael Bolton and at the 2008 Air Jamaica Jazz Festival. In 2008, Martin was nominated for The Jamaica Observer Teenage Choice Awards and Excellence in Music and Entertainment.
The following category is for music festivals held in Jamaica.Music festivals of all genres are included, including rock festivals, classical music festivals, jazz festivals, pop festivals, electronic music festivals, and folk festivals, among other types.
The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes over 2 million visitors (12.5% of whom are tourists) as well as 300 accredited journalists.
The Paul Peress Project has appeared internationally: at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival in Johannesburg SA, St. Kitts Music Festival, Saint Lucia Jazz Festival, Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, Berkeley Jazz Festival, Heineken Jazz Festival, Kaslo Jazz Etc. Festival, Puerto Rico's Festival Internacional de Jazz Latino, and Lincoln ...
In 2002, Crosby won the award for Best Band for his 20-piece big band, Jazz Jamaica All Stars. In the same year, he was honoured by the Festival Directorate of the Ocho Rios Jazz Festival, Jamaica, for Consistent Contribution to Music in Jamaica, [14] thereby securing a place in the Jamaica Jazz Hall of Fame. In 2006, Jazz Jamaica was given the ...