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The Panama Jazz Festival continues to educate and innovate with the 10th virtual edition

The Panama Jazz Festival continues to educate and innovate with the 10th virtual edition

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With about 18 years of life, the festival has become an attraction of cultural and educational tourism that every year is received with great expectations by an audience that come to celebrate cultural diversity and artistic quality that convenes exponents from all over the world.

The Panama Jazz Festival this year celebrates its 10th edition in a virtual way, a great challenge but with the conviction that it will be one of the most important and innovative as, on a single platform, it will join the whole world for two weeks. The Festival aims to reinvent its format in a virtual way, and that's a matter of hope to continue creating and changing lives.

That festival will be dedicated to the Panamanian singer with his name and his name. Enid Lowe and her husband the great Panamanian saxophone Walter "Gene" Jefferson. Enid Lowe, also known as "the Sara Vaugh of Panama" was born at Colón in 1935 and from an early age she has been singing at several Panamanian stage with leading musicians as Clarence Martin. He then moves to New York and remains active at the jazz scene to date. Gene Jefferson was born at Colón in 1935 and from his early age she has been singing at his music race. He then works with leading artists such as Titus Rodriguez, Ray Charles, Arsenio Rodriguez, and others. Lowe and Jefferson have been participating for decades in the jazz scene of New York's and his local community, while his local jazz (Frank and his and his local community are with his local and his local jazz).

Two weeks of important clinics and concerts highlighting the gala with the final legendary concert quartet of Wayne. Shorter. for the first time, a master's collaboration with Erika Ender y Danilo Pérez, a great concert from Master Reuben Blades with Roberto Delgado Salsa Big Band, as well as the great saxophone Joe Lovano with singer Judi Silvano, Terri Lynn Carrington with Kris Davis and Val Jeanty, John Pakercci duo and many more. On January 23, the last day of the festival, concerts will be published from the Ateneo of the City of Knowledge, one of the most important allies of the festival.

We have to highlight the IX Latin American Multitherapy Symposium gathering musicologists from Panama, Colombia, Uruguay, Spain, the United States, Argentina, among other countries, to present about the therapeutic effects of music. V Symposium of Cultural, Cultural and Musical Expressions of People of African descent of Panama; Credit Programme that dictates Berklee College of Music through Berklee Global Jazz Institute during the Panama Jazz Festival and program Music Reunion Classicby teachers and personnel of New England Conservatory and distinguished international guests.

It's very important to announce that Ministry of Culture led by the Minister Carlos Aguilar NavarroHe's going with his hand once more with his Fundación Danilo PérezTo be submitted by Panama Jazz Festival 2021by providing tools that will facilitate expansion with new ideas to continue to bring opportunities to families at national and international level during these times of great challenges where the flag of culture and peace has always been the message of the teacher Danilo Pérez as an artistic director of the PJF, Cultural Ambassador of Panama and Artist for La Paz of the UNESCO.

The festival's been produced by Panama Jazz Productions and City of Knowledge to the social programmes of the Fundación Danilo Pérez with the support of The Ministry of Culture of Panama.

For more information about the Panama Jazz Festival, please visit: www.PanamaJazzFestival.com