Detroit Public TV and organizers team up to bring the city's great musical tradition free of charge to music fans everywhere all this Labor Day weekend.
Detroit Public TV and organizers team up to bring the city's great musical tradition free of charge to music fans everywhere all this Labor Day weekend Watch the entire festival at DetroitJazzFest.org.
Stream starts tonight at 6:30 p.m. - Broadcast at 9:30 p.m. It's the world's largest free jazz festival, and not even a pandemic can stop the music at the 41st annual Detroit Jazz Festival.
Instead, over the Labor Day weekend, local artists as well as national luminaries will perform live at the Detroit Marriott in the Renaissance Center. There won't be an audience for safety reasons, but these remarkable acts will be captured by the Detroit Public TV production crew on three indoor sound stages set up for the occasion and then streamed live or broadcast to music fans across Metro Detroit and around the globe. With more than 40 hours of music from Friday evening through Monday night, you have many ways to make sure you don't miss a beat. You can tune in to the tunes on:
And once again this year, Detroit Public TV (56.1) will air a prime-time special, featuring the incomparable Pharaoh Sanders, Friday night at 9:30.
Throughout the weekend, the Detroit Jazz Festival, presented by Rocket Mortgage, will offer performances by national jazz luminaries including Sanders and Robert Glasper and a sterling roster of Detroit-area artists.
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