About Dundee Jazz Festival

The Dundee Jazz Festival (DJF) has been running for 40 years in the city and has become a key date in the city’s festival calendar.

Showcasing both the local musical talent and bringing visiting performers to the city, its a celebration of great music on Tayside.

DJF24

Taking place at multiple venues across Dundee, highlights from the line-up include spoken word artist and songwriter Bee Asha(pictured above), who performed at The Maker on Thursday 21 November hot on the heels of her SAY Award longlist nomination. Also performing was kitti (who won Best Female Breakthrough at the Scottish Music Awards and Best Jazz Vocalist at the Scottish Jazz Awards), performing the Great Caledonian Songbook at Gardyne Theatre on Wednesday 20 November. Jacqui Dankworth MBE was joined by Charlie Wood to showcase her soaring vocals at Gardyne Theatre on Saturday 23 November.  

DJF23

Performers included Mica Millar , Riot Jazz , Mama Terra , Ali Affleck , Helena Kay , SCuba - Latin Jazz Quintet , Colin Steele , Martin Kershaw , Dave Milligan Music , Rachel Duns , Bohemian Monk Machine , Dundee University Big Band , Rose Room , Alice Faye , Mikey Owers , Maria Sappho , Brian Kellock , Simone Seales , milhouse collective , Dopey Monkey

A massive year, and a great celebration of jazz in Dundee.

Past years

We're working on uploading all our past programmes to this page, so we can keep the heritage and history of the great festival alive.

Watch this space.